"What do you want to be when you grow up? "I want to be a scientist" is the answer that many primary and secondary school students blurt out.
How do you make your dreams come true? "Make science classes more professional and engaging. Li Xiaokun, a representative of the National People's Congress and president of Wenzhou Medical University, shared with reporters the exploration of 100 scientific research workers in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province as vice presidents of science in 100 schools.
Recently, Dr. Zhao Zhiyuan, an associate researcher at the Wenzhou Research Institute of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, came to Wenzhou Square Road Primary School and gave a science lesson to the students. During the class, he played an interactive game with everyone - blowing with a straw to levitate the table tennis ball in the air, which surprised the students at the scene. On the other side of the screen, more than 5,000 children from 4 campuses are blowing table tennis balls while broadcasting live broadcasts.
Last year, Wenzhou launched the construction of science teachers, and hired 100 scientific research workers to serve as vice presidents of science in 100 schools in Wenzhou, most of these vice principals are doctors, full-time or part-time researchers of Wenzhou's high-level platform, including many national outstanding young people and other talents.
How to do a good job in science education "addition"? In a good science class, stimulating students' interest is the key.
Experimental teaching can stimulate students' curiosity, imagination and desire, and cultivate students' scientific interest and scientific thinking from an early age. Pei Hongxia, a deputy to the National People's Congress and secretary of the general party branch of Shijiazhuang Foreign Chinese School, who has been working on the front line all the year round, found that there are still more prominent problems in science education in primary and secondary schools: teaching and experiments are separated, and more talk is done less. She pointed out that it is necessary to increase the proportion of experimental teaching in science courses and increase the experimental examination in examination evaluation. In the curriculum, it is necessary to fully explore the elements of science education in the curriculum of various disciplines. It is closely related to the actual life of students, so that students can learn in real life situations. It is necessary to fully integrate school resources and develop school-based curricula for science education.
How can science education create a synergy in the whole society? Pei Hongxia said that it is necessary to make good use of the social human resources of science education, make good use of the social classroom, and pay attention to practical education. For example, the school has established a home-school-community coordination mechanism to cultivate students' scientific literacy, giving full play to the role of science popularization experts and parents in "entering the campus", and creating school science courses through "inviting in". Give full play to social resources such as science and technology museums, museums, and popular science education bases, and carry out research and practice courses. Guide students to discover, analyze and solve problems in the actual life around them, so as to cultivate students' scientific thinking mode and stimulate students' scientific and innovative spirit.
Carry out extensive and in-depth volunteer activities at all levels and types of science popularization, and actively build interconnection and mutual assistance mechanisms with off-campus resources. Hu Haijuan, a deputy to the National People's Congress and a teacher at Hailar No. 2 Middle School in Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, also has a deep feeling about science education: "The practice of science and technology education has proved that 'going out and inviting in' can not only improve and broaden the knowledge and horizons of teachers and students, but also form a good linkage mechanism inside and outside the school to better promote the development of science and technology education in the region." ”
In addition, Hu Haijuan said that corresponding incentives need to be developed. Gradually build and improve a scientific and rational science education management system and evaluation standards, stimulate the vitality of teachers, and promote the development of science curriculum resources. (China Education Daily-China Education News Network reporter Zhang Xin).
Author: Zhang Xin.