At the beginning of this semester, several other teachers who were loaned by the Education Bureau in the same group as me have returned to their original schools. When we were leaving, Mr. Huang, the deputy principal of Qianjin Primary School in Shuangfeng Town, and I made an agreement with Director Chen of the Education Subsidy Center: After Mr. Huang returns to school, he will set up a calligraphy specialty class, and invite Director Chen and I to take time to go over and give lessons to the teachers. The students take calligraphy classes, and she wants to build a school with calligraphy characteristics.
Yesterday was the first time I went to class. Originally, Director Chen took all the staff of the financial aid center and me to exchange and study with the teachers and students of Qianjin Primary School. However, due to a meeting in the morning, it was held until one o'clock. However, and the spirit of the meeting must be implemented immediately, Director Chen and the others cannot go. I can only go there alone.
After all, it was already agreed and it was the first class, so Director Chen was busy and unhurried. In order to express our sincerity and build momentum for the event, she temporarily contacted Mingyu, the monitor of our teacher's calligraphy training class, and asked him and me to give the first calligraphy class to the teachers and students of Qianjin Primary School.
It turned out to be a coincidence. The class time for Qianjin Primary School was set at three in the afternoon, and Mingyu had to go to Liuguan Street at three-thirty, where a calligraphy competition for primary and secondary school teachers in the street was held, and he was invited to be a judge. . The two places are nearly ten kilometers apart.
Mingyu was so positive and enthusiastic that he rushed to Qianjin Primary School with me. He was too late to attend class, so he had a brief chat with Principal Zhu and the teachers of the school and then rushed to Liu Guan.
Qianjin Primary School is so small that it is as small and exquisite as the "matchbox" we used to describe it. Apart from the teaching building, basketball court and offices, there are no other open spaces or places. Their teaching building is also divided into two, with only half of their primary school and the other half being kindergarten.
The school has less than 300 students, but it is a perfect primary school with students in grades one to six. There are 16 teachers with an average age of 45 (it was 47 before this semester. In September, a special post teacher in his 20s came, which lowered the number by nearly two percentage points).
The school attaches great importance to the study of calligraphy. There are 40 students in the specialty class, and most of the teachers have the desire to practice calligraphy.
Since they have not yet started, the "Four Treasures of the Study" - pens, inks, paper and inkstones for teachers and students are relatively primitive, most students do not have felts; the ink is "stinky ink" in small bottles the size of ink bottles; there are no ink cartridges , use ink bottle caps to hold ink; the writing brushes are generally small, and most of them are not opened...
But the children are in high spirits, and it is obvious that they are eager to practice calligraphy.
A class of 40 minutes is very short. It is impossible to teach too much knowledge. It can only guide them to have a new understanding of calligraphy and calligraphy.