After years of exploration and practice, a systematic teaching strategy and method of small class education has been formed. The classroom is full of vitality, students' initiative and enthusiasm in learning are high, and students' personality and creativity are fully developed. Group cooperative learning and individual counseling have become the norm in teaching and learning. Students' communication ability and innovative consciousness are more prominent.
Feature 2: A teacher's work laboratory integrating scientific research, teaching and training.
In 2003, the school established seven teachers' work laboratories. The establishment of this mechanism has played an important role in the development of the school.
Very prominent significance, since then, the emergence of excellent teachers has a long-term mechanism to constantly promote and promote. The person in charge of the studio has become the forerunner of school education and teaching reform, the leader and demonstrator of education and teaching research, the trainer of school-based training and the implementer of evaluation. The "integration of research, repair and training" has been implemented concretely. Studio has become an incubator and booster for the school to reach a new level and develop continuously. "Research on improving teachers' practical wisdom in generative teaching" is listed as a municipal topic.
Feature 3: International public education experimental school.
At the beginning of 20 10, the school was selected by the district education bureau as an international experimental school with bilingual teaching as the breakthrough. With the goal of "facing the world, understanding the world and going to the world", the school has added several years of bilingual teaching and disciplines on the original basis, compiled bilingual teaching materials, set up a team of bilingual teachers composed of Chinese and foreign teachers, and is forming a "full immersion" and "semi-immersion" bilingual classroom teaching mode in Tianshan No.1 Primary School. In the bilingual teaching environment for many years, students have improved their English ability and increased their understanding of foreign cultures. During their visit to the school with foreign educational delegations, the students showed unusual self-confidence, atmosphere and positive communication skills. The campus environment has also undergone tremendous changes. A cultural corridor of "seeing the world with a small eye and knowing the world around you" has been built. All-weather and open leisure reading plazas have been designed on all floors, and nearly 10,000 books, periodicals and picture books suitable for students of different ages to understand excellent Chinese and foreign cultures have been newly purchased. The school rebuilt the students' English learning center on the fourth floor, and improved students' English learning efficiency through three classrooms with different functions (basic classroom, foreign teacher classroom and future classroom).
Feature 4: "Ant Education"
In view of the phenomenon that only children are generally prone to be withdrawn, selfish, afraid of hardships, self-centered and not good at cooperation, the school put forward the concept of "cultivating the ant spirit of primary school students", and the layout of campus environment and many Young Pioneers' activities every semester highlight and guide students to learn the spirit of being fearless of hardships, unity and cooperation. "Ant education" marks the renewal and transformation of the concept of moral education in schools. Since then, school moral education has paid more attention to image and concreteness, and has been closer to children's cognitive and emotional world, becoming more effective.
School Feature 5: School-based curriculum featuring Go and calligraphy.
The schools are Shanghai Weiqi Traditional School and Shanghai Calligraphy School. Go and calligraphy are also traditional school-based courses. The school has rewritten school-based textbooks such as Go and Calligraphy, and expanded the past focus on pure skill teaching into a comprehensive textbook focusing on promoting national culture and cultivating literacy such as "writing and playing chess". The school has also compiled school-based courses on moral education, science and technology, such as Always Ready, Life Education, Wisdom of Ants, Kissing Flowers and Trees on Campus, etc.
The school has successively won the honorary titles of National Writing Experimental School, Shanghai Science and Technology Advanced School, Shanghai Green School and Changning District Civilized Unit.