Rural education is the "nerve ending" of China's education, and it is also an important position. In Langxi County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province, in order to promote the high-quality and balanced development of regional education and allow urban and rural students to share high-quality education, in 2016, Langxi County launched the pilot work of the smart school construction project for primary and secondary schools, and by 2022, relying on the "Smart School Standard Improvement Project" of Xuancheng City, the full coverage of smart schools in rural primary and secondary schools will be realized.
Meizhu Town is located in the southeast border of Anhui, 16 kilometers away from Langxi County, while Dingbu Village is located in the northwest of Meizhu Town, about 5 kilometers away from Meizhu Town. With the acceleration of urbanization, a large number of rural people have migrated to the surrounding more developed cities, and the development of some rural schools has been in trouble. Langxi County Meizhu Zhendingbu Central School is no exception.
In recent years, under the digital transformation of education, watchfulness and change have been integrated and integrated in this land, and the future of rural education has been outlined.
To understand the school's past, we have to mention the principal Jiang Zhiping. After graduating from the school in 1988, he has experienced 35 years of spring and autumn with Dingbu Central School. The brick houses and mud roads are the first appearance of the school in his memory, "Some of the windows of the houses are not even equipped with glass, and when it is cold in winter, they are covered with white plastic sheets." There is no standardized playground, let alone sports equipment, but the children will create their own game props, although the equipment is simple, but they have a lot of fun.
With the development of education and people's livelihood projects, the conditions of Dingbu Central School have undergone earth-shaking changes in the past few decades. Bright classrooms, clean playgrounds, modern teaching equipment ......As you can see, the environment of this rural school is almost no different from that of a city school, or even better.
No matter how beautiful the school is, no matter how hard the teachers work, it is not a good feeling to see that there are fewer students. Jiang Zhiping is saddened by the fact that for so many years, the quality of teaching at the school has been at the forefront, but the number of students has decreased by three-quarters compared to the past. Faced with this reality, he became concerned and focused on how to better educate the students who remained.
In 2022, the Smart Classroom will be rolled out in Dingbu Central School, covering grades 3 to 9. In fact, when he went to Shanghai for exchange and study in 2016, Jiang Zhiping saw the relevant applications, and at the same time deeply realized the gap between urban and rural education. Six years later, the school finally ushered in its own smart classroom, and he was extremely excited at this moment.
Jin Jiangxin, a biology teacher in the school's junior high school and also the school's information administrator, has a lot of experience in the use of smart classrooms. For example, when explaining the relationship between the formation of chlorophyll and light, the interactive ** is interspersed in the courseware to intuitively show the difference between leeks and leeks, which not only adds interest to the classroom, but also deepens the students' impression of knowledge points. In addition, through the tablet to arrange learning tasks such as in-class assessment, you can also check students' mastery of knowledge points in real time and conduct targeted tutoring. "In the past, I could only focus on lessons based on experience, but now I can know what each student is learning. Jin Jiangxin said.
With the help of informatization, the students of Dingbu Central School can also have a road under their feet and light in front of them, and Jin Jiangxin is also very happy.
Thanks to policy support, the school has welcomed 25 young teachers under the age of 35 in recent years. Jiang Zhiping said: "Their arrival has injected new vitality into education and teaching in terms of educational concepts, knowledge levels and educational skills, and they are very popular with students. ”
Rural schools have reached a new stage of development, and it is particularly important to improve the professional ability of teachers. In order to better stimulate teachers' enthusiasm for using smart technology to carry out daily teaching work, the school also regularly carries out activities such as collective lesson preparation, smart classroom open classes, and intra-school competitions, sets up a reward system, and incorporates the use of smart classrooms into teachers' performance evaluation indicators through the vote of the teaching congress.
Mathematics teacher Yi Zhenyue, who has been teaching in Dingbu Central School for 3 years, resolutely chose to return to her hometown after graduating from the village school and was admitted to this school. Compared with when I was a child, the environment of the rural school is changing with each passing day, but the hope of the farmers facing the loess to stop poverty has never changed. "From the eyes of the students, I see their thirst for knowledge and their vision of the outside world. The children in the countryside are very simple and energetic, which makes me even more determined to stay here. Yi Zhenyue said.
Wang Xueping, who is also a mathematics teacher, has nearly 40 years of teaching experience. He has witnessed the evolution and change of rural education, and "adaptation" is a word that comes up frequently in conversations with him, and it is also what he is doing. Although he is close to retirement, Wang Xueping still insists on learning new technologies and new methods, "at least not falling behind young people", and this spirit always inspires young teachers like Yi Zhenyue.
At present, there are 11 old teachers over 50 years old in Dingbu Central School, when the smart classroom enters the campus, considering that young teachers have a stronger ability to accept new things and have higher information literacy, the school decided to change the pairing method of the "Qinglan Project". This time, the young teachers became the "masters" of the old teachers, guiding them to use the tablets in their hands well.
A new wind, a little change, and some hope have emerged, and the teachers who stick here have more expectations for the future of rural education. (Reporter Fang Mengyu).