In the fall semester of 2023, after the establishment of the Experimental No. 1 Primary School Education Group in Linqu County, Weifang City, Shandong Province, Yuan Li, a famous Qilu teacher and provincial special teacher, and 8 backbone teachers came to the education group's Zhulin Campus in Shanwang Town, bringing drama integration courses and gamified Chinese teaching methods to this remote rural primary school. Their arrival is the result of Linqu's multiple measures to guide a large number of outstanding teachers to teach in rural schools.
In recent years, Linqu has focused on priority investment, key guarantees, and balanced allocation, integrated "running people's satisfactory education" into the rural revitalization strategy, made every effort to improve the conditions for running schools in rural areas, made up for the shortcomings of rural education, narrowed the gap between urban and rural education, and "strengthened the bones" of rural education. After a series of practical recruitment, many local students began to return to the village primary school to study.
As soon as the school started last semester, Li Xiaomei, vice principal of Xinhua Middle School in Linqu County, had a new identity - the executive principal of Xinhua Middle School Haiyue Campus. Originally, in order to speed up the development of new rural schools, Linqu County organized the "marriage" of the newly built Zengjiawa School and Xinhua Middle School, a high-quality school directly under the county, and established an education group.
Under the guidance of the concept of co-establishment, co-construction, co-research, sharing and co-control of the core schools of the group, the group schools carry out integrated management evaluation and integrated development from the aspects of school management, teacher development, student growth, and education quality, so as to drive the group schools to rapidly improve the quality of running schools. Li Xiaomei said.
The above practice is not unique in Linqu. The children of Baqishan Primary School in Wujing Town, located in the mountainous area of western Linqu County, were also pleasantly surprised to welcome many new teachers. Wang Jinde, vice principal of Linqu County No. 2 Experimental Primary School and executive principal of the branch campus, brought the management team and backbone teacher team to Baqishan Primary School in Wujing Town, which not only brought a new management concept to this rural school with only 300 students, but also effectively solved the difficulty of the shortage of art and sports teachers. "The school's art and sports courses have been fully opened, student clubs have also been set up, and the children's art literacy has been improved. Ju Jinghua, director of the teaching office of the Baqishan campus, said happily.
Linqu, which is not financially wealthy, has invested an average of 11 per year in the construction of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the past three yearsThe range of 6% is increasing, and the cumulative investment in the past three years is 26800 million yuan, 48 new primary and secondary schools, 53 kindergartens, 151 projects such as the transformation and upgrading of weak rural schools have been implemented, and the action of "strengthening schools and expanding excellence" has been solidly promoted, and the conditions for running rural schools have been greatly improved.
Originally, we wanted our children to go to school in the city, but now we have built a new education park in front of our home, and the school conditions, teaching quality and the same as those in the city make parents happy. Xun Jinmei, a parent of a student at Jiangyu Primary School in Jiangyu Town, Linqu County, said. Jiangyu Town, which has a weak economic foundation and a remote transportation location, has invested a total of 1 financial fund since it was identified as the first batch of pilot towns in Shandong Province to build a strong education town in 20215.2 billion, built with high standards 4The 80,000-square-meter education park has upgraded and renovated four rural schools in the town, and the schools have taken on a new look, and many children are no longer willing to go to school in the city.
According to the Chief Inspector of the Linqu County Education and Sports Bureau, in view of the problems of many rural schools, scattered layout, small scale and weak foundation, Linqu County has continuously played three sets of "combination punches" of group schooling, school district system reform and school optimization and integration with systematic governance thinking, accurately anchoring the three major elements of educational resources, education evaluation and service guarantee, integrated modeling, and whole-process optimization, effectively promoting the high-quality development of rural schools, and initially realizing the goal of large-scale and high-quality school-running in rural schools.
In terms of helping new teachers grow rapidly, Linqu has also put a lot of effort into it. Tang Ming, a teacher newly assigned to Yebei Primary School in Yeyuan Street, Linqu last semester, did not go directly to work as a new teacher in previous years, but first practiced in Dongjun Primary School in the county seat. "The school has found a 'master' for us in advance, either a special teacher or a subject leader, from classroom teaching, class management to home-school communication, teaching us in the same way, I feel that I have grown up very fast. Tang Ming said.
In 2023, the 487 new teachers recruited will all teach in urban areas in the first employment period, and teach in the countryside in the second employment period, so that new teachers can receive different post experience in a short period of time, shorten the growth period, and embark on the professional growth path of "one year to start, three years to become a backbone, and five years to become a famous teacher".
We will seize the major opportunity of the construction of the first batch of rural education revitalization experimental zones in Shandong Province, innovate and work hard for a long time, continuously promote the high-quality development of education in the county, especially rural education, and strive to run an education that satisfies the people. Zhang Xue, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Linqu County Education and Sports Bureau, said.
China Education Daily, 2024-02-19, 2nd edition
Author: Wei Haizheng, reporter of this newspaper, Li Yaowu, Li Chunyu.