Xu Wen has improved the professional quality of the teaching team through the rotation training of all teachers. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
The quality of education for students in Xuwen County has been continuously improved. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Recently, Chen Sheng, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Zhanjiang Municipal Education Bureau, led a team to investigate the creation of the "Millions of Millions Project" characteristic towns in Jiaowei Township, Xuwen County, and guided the education work of Xuwen County.
Since last year, the Education Bureau of Xuwen County has closely focused on the deployment and requirements of the "Millions and Thousands of Projects" education action, focusing on the creation of "three schools" in characteristic towns and typical towns.
Taking the opportunity of hanging point education assistance, Xuwen County adheres to the principle of giving priority to the development of education, continues to increase investment in education, and promotes the reform of the education system and mechanism. Remarkable results have been achieved in expanding high-quality educational resources, helping to provide educational assistance, and promoting balanced education.
Yang Chuan, Lin Wangxiao, Zhuang Jifu.
Seize the opportunity to help
Let education change from "blood transfusion" to "hematopoiesis".
Since 2023, the Zhanjiang Municipal Education Bureau has led a team to conduct research on the creation of characteristic towns and typical towns of the "Millions and Thousands Project" in Qujie Town and Jiaowei Township of Xuwen County for many times, to gain an in-depth understanding of the current situation of the local Xuwen and put forward targeted guidance and suggestions. On this basis, the Xuwen County Education Bureau has formulated a series of educational reform measures in close combination with the actual situation to promote the transformation of education from "blood transfusion" to "hematopoiesis".
Focusing on the key task of "building typical counties, towns and villages", the Zhanjiang Municipal Education Bureau has carried out the education action of "Hundreds of Thousands of Projects" for the characteristic towns and typical towns of Xuwen County, and selected cadres to carry out on-site assistance to typical town schools, so as to promote the sinking of high-quality educational resources and management experience, help township schools improve their school-running concepts, education and teaching quality, accelerate the construction of teachers and improve the level of standardized school management, and further narrow the gap between urban and rural, regional and inter-school education development.
At the same time, the Xuwen County Education Bureau seized the opportunity of the relevant provincial departments and universities to provide assistance to Xuwen education, and actively connected with the Guangdong Provincial Education Research Institute, the Guangzhou Municipal Education Bureau, the Guangzhou Liwan District Education Bureau and a series of colleges and universities to carry out counterpart support, broaden the exchange and learning channels of Xuwen teachers, fully learn from the advanced education and teaching concepts in developed areas, activate the endogenous power of education, and further promote the high-quality development of Xuwen education.
The training system and standards have been formulated for the three types of teachers, teaching and research teams, and management cadres, and the Xuwen County Education Bureau has docked with a series of counterpart colleges and universities to increase exchanges and training efforts to improve the comprehensive quality and ability level of teachers. More than 3,000 teachers participated in the training of teachers and researchers in the county, and 8,488 people were trained at all levels and types, which greatly improved the professional level of teaching and researchers, primary and secondary school teachers.
At the same time, the Xuwen County Education Bureau and the Liwan District Education Bureau established an in-depth pairing assistance, and the Liwan District Education Bureau sent 30 outstanding teachers to Xuwen's primary and secondary schools to teach, injecting new vitality into Xuwen's education and teaching work. Xuwen County accordingly sent 60 teachers to Liwan District for on-the-job learning and learning from its advanced education and teaching experience.
In order to effectively improve the management level of middle schools in the county, the Xuwen County Education Bureau also issued the "Xuwen County Middle School Assistance and Co-construction Work Plan" to actively carry out assistance and co-construction, and promote the establishment of a pairing relationship between Xuwen County No. 1 Middle School and Zhanjiang No. 2 Middle School, Xuwen Middle School and Xuwen County Experimental Middle School. The helping schools will take effective measures to improve the management level of the assisted counties and enhance the vitality and endogenous motivation of the schools; Strengthen teaching and research guidance and teacher training, and strive to improve the discipline literacy and education and teaching level of middle school teachers in the assisted counties; Deepen the reform of classroom teaching and improve the quality of education in the counties being helped.
Since 2023, Xuwen County has tilted funds to weak schools to promote the improvement of school-running conditions at the grassroots level. A total of funds have been allocated for the long-term mechanism of school building safety, high-quality development funds, and thinning funds, which are used to improve the operating conditions of grassroots schools and further optimize the allocation of educational resources in grassroots schools.
Stimulate endogenous motivation
Promote the high-quality and balanced development of education.
Since the beginning of this year, Xuwen County has thoroughly implemented the "Action Plan for Promoting High-quality Basic Education in Guangdong Province", guided by the "Millions of Projects" education action, strengthened standardized management, committed to improving the level and quality of teaching and research activities, and promoted the high-quality development of education and teaching.
At present, with the goal of promoting the integration of urban and rural education, the Education Bureau of Xuwen County actively promotes the construction of urban and rural education communities, improves the quality of education in the county, and actively promotes the "integrated classroom of urban and rural education" in typical towns and characteristic towns. By building a learning community composed of "full-time and part-time teaching and researchers, studio hosts of famous teachers, backbone teachers and rural teachers", the educational resources of Zhanjiang urban area will be transferred to towns and villages through online education platforms, so as to promote the diversification, specialization and scientificization of the curriculum, and promote the balanced development of education in urban and rural areas.
With the opportunity of education assistance, combined with the local reality, actively promote the construction of urban and rural education communities, comprehensively improve the quality of education in the county, and achieve educational equity, the "Notice on Promoting the Construction of Urban and Rural Compulsory Education Communities" and "Notice on the Establishment of Urban and Rural Compulsory Education Community Work Coordination Group" and other documents have been promulgated, and the construction goals and implementation plans of urban and rural education communities have been clearly proposed.
In the past year, Xuwen County established the first urban and rural compulsory education community, and plans to create four more education communities in 2024, and fully roll out the construction of education communities in 2025.
According to the plan, Xuwen County will form an educational community model of "a county high-quality school + a township center school + several rural weak schools", so as to realize "the same teachers, synchronous teaching, collaborative research and training, and integrated assessment", so that the development of urban and rural compulsory education tends to be more high-quality and balanced, and the gap between urban and rural education is narrowed.
In addition, the county education bureau further promoted the construction of the teaching staff and promoted the tilt of rural grassroots posts. Intensify the recruitment of teachers and distribute recruitment positions to the grassroots level. Since 2022, the county has recruited 460 teachers, most of whom are located at the grassroots level, which is conducive to optimizing the structure of the teaching force and improving the level of teachers in rural grassroots education. The Education Bureau of Xuwen County attaches great importance to the construction of teacher ethics and teacher style, and improves the long-term mechanism for the integration of teacher ethics education, publicity, assessment, supervision, and rewards and punishments.
In the direction of education reform, the county education bureau has carried out a series of education and teaching reform measures, such as the teaching guidance strategy, the implementation of the principal's random class system, the promotion of open class activities for all staff, the development of famous teachers to send classes to the countryside, the organization of teachers to participate in various teaching competitions and the declaration of various topics, and the selection of urban backbone teachers to teach in grassroots schools, so as to improve the quality of grassroots teaching and provide strong support for schools to standardize education and teaching behaviors and cultivate educational talents.
Since 2023, Xu Wen has selected 35 teachers to teach in grassroots schools, and has successfully held 14 activities for famous teachers to teach in the countryside. Under the promotion of the famous teacher's studio, a group of excellent teaching backbones have been cultivated and the professional ability of teachers has been improved.
At present, Xuwen County is steadily improving the quality of education in the county by promoting the construction of urban and rural education communities, building a strong teaching team, deepening education reform and optimizing resource allocation. It is of great significance to further narrow the gap between urban and rural education and promote educational equity, and lays a solid foundation for the all-round development of students in the county.