Lanxi Middle School is located in Chiling Village, Guanqiao Town, southern Anxi County, the hometown of China’s famous Tieguanyin (oolong tea). It is an old school in the hometown of overseas Chinese with a history of 64 years. The school was awarded the title of provincial third-level standard school in November 2000. In recent years, the school has fully implemented the party's education policy, aiming to create a provincial second-level standard school, taking the new curriculum reform as an opportunity, and creating a good campus cultural atmosphere as a starting point to promote the in-depth development of quality education, and the quality of education and teaching has improved year by year. The school has steadily increased, and the school's achievements and benefits have been remarkable, forming a good situation of "one tree blooms with thousands of branches in the spring breeze, and the garden is full of colorful spring", and has won various honors of high quantity and high quality. In the past few years, the school has successively won the titles of "Fujian Provincial Civilized School" (the ninth and tenth consecutive awards), "Fujian Provincial Green School", "Fujian Provincial Advanced School in Implementing Quality Education in Primary and Secondary Schools", "Harmonious China? The First National Secondary School Award" "Top 100 Innovative Schools for Primary School Campus Culture Construction" and so on. According to the plans of the superior education administrative department and the needs of its own development, the school is scheduled to accept the acceptance of the provincial second-level high school in April 2011.
As a rural middle school, the school has a weak foundation and poor student quality, which has restricted the improvement and development of the school’s education and teaching quality. In addition, the surrounding environment of the campus is poor and needs further improvement and purification. Various situations have brought great impact and challenges to school education and teaching management. To this end, the school adheres to the management idea of ??"highlighting the characteristic campus culture and making every effort to improve the quality of running a school", taking the formation and optimization of "school running characteristics" as the starting point, actively exploring and courageously practicing, striving to build a characteristic campus culture, and comprehensively and in-depth implementation of quality Education has created a new situation in rural middle school education and teaching, and effectively promoted the balanced development of urban and rural education.
As we all know, when traditional school education faces confusion, it is inevitable to seek reforms and breakthroughs. The weakening of the traditional education model is largely due to the fact that it seeks "internalized education" from outside to inside. Today, reforms and breakthroughs in school education and teaching management should change the perspective of thinking and strive to seek an "introspective education" from the inside out. This is a return to the subjective consciousness from others asking me to learn well to wanting to learn well on my own. It seeks to move from a kind of "heteronomy" to a state of "self-discipline" and "consciousness". After many years of running a school, I have reached this state. It can truly promote the development of human subjectivity. To achieve this state, the best way is to build a unique campus culture. Because campus culture is the deepest and most potential educational force. Once campus culture is activated, it can generate huge educational energy and lead students to thrive. After years of exploration in running schools, Lanxi Middle School has established a work policy of "highlighting culture and stimulating introspection". Taking culture as the guide and students' independent and all-round development as the main line, Lanxi Middle School builds a personalized and unique school that can give full play to students' strengths. Lanxi Middle School's unique education and teaching system continuously strengthens the school's cultural construction and insists on carrying out distinctive campus cultural activities, so that the school's work develops in inheritance, innovates in harmony, and creates a new image of an advanced school with quality education.
1. Build a harmonious class culture and ignite the passion for learning and struggle
The school attaches great importance to the construction of class culture, stimulates all students to participate in creating a class cultural atmosphere, and cultivates students' sense of autonomy, self-discipline, and collective The spirit of communism and the ambition to learn and struggle.
1. Collect daily quotes. In order to cultivate students' habits of in-depth life and active thinking, enhance students' comprehension and creativity, and improve students' cultural literacy, the school has vigorously promoted the educational activity of "daily (weekly) mottos in class" since the autumn of 2006 to encourage Students create or excerpt classic aphorisms. Every school year, the Chinese team teachers select the 100 best maxims, and plan to edit the classic maxims into "Philosophy of Mortals" for whole-school exchanges. These original "ordinary philosophical words" not only deeply cleanse and encourage the minds of teachers and students, but also enhance the cultural atmosphere of the campus.
2. Collect class names and class training. Each class in the school collects personalized and inspirational class names and class mottos from the entire class.
Through the selection, many distinctive class names and mottos have been produced, such as "Pengfei's Dream", "Perseverance without Limits", "Dreams Fly in June", "Fight for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, Fight for Youth without Regrets" , "As long as you are not disappointed this second, there will be hope the next second" and so on.
2. Create a distinctive dormitory culture and optimize students’ living environment
The dormitory is an important activity place for students and a big stage for their spare time life. Our school currently has more than 1,700 boarding students. It is very important to manage the student dormitories and arrange the life of boarding students well. The school fully realizes that creating a high-grade dormitory cultural atmosphere can help stimulate the learning interest and creativity of boarding students and form excellent moral sentiments.
In view of this, the school creatively mobilized students in each dormitory to unite and cooperate, use their collective wisdom to independently determine personalized names and mottos, and use their names and mottos to strictly demand their own study, life and Daily behavioral habits. These elegant names and mottos rich in thought or philosophy are the collective creation and choice of all dormitory members. They embody the students' ambitions and interests, and reflect the students' wisdom, thoughts and spirituality. The process of discussion, selection, and determination of names and precepts has become a process for students to explore and think, deepen their cognition, and learn and progress. It not only beautifies the living environment and cultivates their sentiments, but also makes them unaware of the situation. I was educated unconsciously and had the effect of killing two birds with one stone. In addition, the school also implements a dormitory captain rotation system to assist student management teachers and the school to standardize the inspection and evaluation of the internal affairs, discipline and hygiene of student dormitories, which greatly stimulates students' awareness of independent management.
In the past few years, our school’s characteristic dormitory culture has become a beautiful cultural landscape of the school. It not only optimizes and beautifies the campus, but also has a moral education effect of “moistening things quietly”.
3. Build a clean and honest culture on campus and form a clean and honest campus style
As a pilot school in Anxi County, our school actively carries out the "Integrity Culture on Campus" activity, through special lectures and photo exhibitions , blackboard newspapers, essay competitions, keynote speeches, debates and other series of anti-corruption culture publicity and education activities, let integrity education enter schools, textbooks, and classrooms, and guide teachers and students throughout the school to firmly establish the tradition of integrity, law-abiding, and hard work virtue. During the activities, the school strengthened the education on integrity and self-discipline, so that teachers and students can truly understand the core connotation of the culture of integrity, and formed an educational style of "respecting integrity, strict systems, transparent management, clean conduct, and satisfying the masses", and enhanced The consciousness of teachers and students to "be a clean person, do things in a standardized manner, and abide by disciplines and laws". Let teachers be dedicated to their jobs and teach with integrity, let students abide by the law and make progress every day, and let the school form a good school spirit, teaching style, and study style.
Furthermore, through the education of students, it promotes the clean government cultural education in society, achieves the purpose of "educating a student, driving a family, and affecting the entire society", and fundamentally strengthens the awareness of teachers, young people, and The students' correct values ??and noble moral sentiments have enabled our school to gradually form a strong cultural atmosphere of clean government that "takes integrity as a matter of pride and corruption as a shame", which has effectively promoted the construction of teachers' ethics and school ethics, and achieved good results. educational effect.
It is worth mentioning that in response to the bad phenomena of some only children being spoiled, extravagant and wasteful, starting from September 2006, the school has carried out "gratitude education activities" among students for several consecutive months to let students further understand "A happy life is hard to come by", and then consciously resist bad habits, practice strict economy, and establish a new trend of respecting integrity and respecting cleanliness. In January 2009, "Quanzhou Evening News", Anxi TV and other media conducted special reports on the results of our school's "Integrity Culture into Campus" activity.
4. Create a culture of caring for girls and promote the growth of girls
In the autumn of 2003, our school, as a rural provincial "civilized school", was identified as a national "Caring for Girls" action pilot unit . In the past few years, the school has vigorously implemented the "Girls' Talent Project", actively opened up a broad world of activities, and provided a stage for the majority of girls to show their vitality and style.
1. The student union has set up a girls’ department to actively carry out activities beneficial to physical and mental health, such as setting up adolescent health and hygiene knowledge education courses, holding lectures on new fertility culture and “Caring for Girls”, small host training, and aerobics training. Classes, young reporter training, model actress selection and other activities are conducted to improve the quality of girls and strive to become talents. The school's psychological consultation room has opened a "girls service hotline" to enthusiastically help girls solve psychological problems in thinking, study, and life.
2. Girls from "two-girl households" in rural areas are free to register and enroll, and the school also allocates special funds to help poor girls complete their studies; for girls from "two-girl households", the school adopts administrative leaders, party members, and youth league committees The system of linking assistance and full tracking management between cadres, class teachers, and subject teachers can improve their learning and living standards in an all-round way.
“Blooming within the walls and fragrant outside the walls”. In the past few years, our school’s “Girls’ Talent Project” has produced fruitful results and attracted widespread attention. Relevant departments at higher levels, many units and media at home and abroad have visited our school. Study interviews and promote our school’s experience to all parts of the country. On August 10, 2004, Zhang Weiqing, Director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, Zhao Bingli, Deputy Director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, Xi Xiaoping, Director of the Publicity and Education Department of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, and relevant leaders of the Family Planning Commissions of our province and brother provinces visited our school to inspect and inspect our school. The implementation of the pilot work of the "Care for Girls" action was fully affirmed and unanimously praised. In August 2005, the school was rated as an advanced unit for the pilot work of the "Care for Girls" action in Quanzhou City. The Quanzhou Municipal Education Bureau and the Family Planning Commission also jointly promoted our school's experience in primary and secondary schools in the city.
5. Enhance the vitality of literary societies and give full play to the function of language education
Our school's "Lanxi" Literary Club was established relatively early. Since its establishment in 1982, the school has attached great importance to it and regarded it as Organically combined with classroom teaching, it stimulates students' interest in learning Chinese, cultivates new literature, exercises students' comprehensive abilities, and comprehensively improves their quality. Over the years, the "Lanxi" Literary Society has played a unique role in the education, teaching and school management of our school, forming the school's own characteristics of Lanxi Middle School, and has received the attention and recognition of many famous figures in the education and literary circles. For example, famous people such as Mr. Chen Jiangong, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, and Mr. Bai Hong, the famous calligrapher, wrote inscriptions for our school's "Blue Stream" magazine. Mr. Zhou Yongsheng, a famous professor of Xiamen University, Mr. Liao Fushu, a young writer in Quanzhou City, and Chen Zhenzhu of the Couplet Society of Anxi County Senior students visited the school to hold symposiums and lectures, and had enthusiastic exchanges with teachers and students of the literary club, which greatly improved the students' literary accomplishment.
In recent years, the "Lanxi" Literary Club has made great progress. The literary club runs the tabloid "Lanxi" and is responsible for the compilation of the "Lanxi Newsletter". In addition, it has opened a "campus" There are two important activity platforms: the "Voice of China" radio station and the "Middle School Student Times" young reporter station. The Literary Club closely focuses on the school's work and carries out activities such as literary lectures, nature collections, theme essays, speech contests, debate contests, etc., which greatly stimulates the writing interest and creative enthusiasm of the majority of students.
Nowadays, the school’s literary camp is gradually expanding, the literary atmosphere is becoming increasingly prosperous, and the campus cultural atmosphere is strong. Pieces of student writings have been published in "Blue Creek" and have been spread to various newspapers and periodicals across the country; one after another in provincial, city, and county essay competitions, they have achieved extremely gratifying results! It is particularly worth mentioning that in the "National Youth Bing Xin Literature Competition" in recent years, members of the "Blue Creek" literary club have won many awards, and the school has also won the "National Youth Bing Xin Literature Competition Creation Base" and "National Youth Bing Xin Literature Competition". "Top Ten Organizations in the Youth Bing Xin Literature Competition", "Top Ten Literary Societies in the National Youth Bing Xin Literature Competition", "Top Ten Literary Cradles in the National Youth Bing Xin Literature Competition", and many Chinese teachers won gold, silver and bronze awards for outstanding tutoring. award.
6. Excavate local humanities and enrich school-based curriculum resources
Lin Sihuan, also known as Tieya, whose ancestral home is Chiling Village, Guanqiao Town, where Lanxi Middle School is located, Qing Dynasty He is a famous litterateur in his generation, and his famous piece "Float Skills" has been selected into the "Junior Middle School Chinese Textbook" of the People's Education Press for a long time, influencing generations of students.
The school explores this school-based resource with local characteristics and creatively carries out inquiry activities with the theme of "inheriting the spirit of hard work of the sage Tie Ya and inspiring the students of Lanzhou Middle School to study and enterprising".
This activity organizes the teachers and students of the school to trace the historical origins of the school's sixty years of prosperity and find the historical foundation that has enabled the school to develop rapidly, so as to deeply explore the rich humanistic education resources. Around the former activity site of the sage Lin Sihuan, we will investigate and learn his spiritual deeds and stories about his hard work and enterprising spirit, enrich the learning life of teachers and students, create a positive campus cultural atmosphere, and then explore the impact of positive personality thoughts on a person's health. great impact on growth. At the same time, through this activity, teachers and students in the school actively interact and learn from each other in teaching, so that they can adapt to the current new situation of rapid development of education and teaching more proactively, actively and effectively.
One hard work, one harvest. In recent years, our school has focused on optimizing the construction of campus culture, comprehensively promoted quality education, and achieved fruitful results. It has introduced typical valuable experiences at city and county moral education work exchange meetings and campus culture construction work exchange meetings many times. However, the formation and optimization of the characteristics of rural middle schools is a long-term and arduous task. We must insist on highlighting the characteristic campus culture and make every effort to improve the quality of running schools in order to adapt to the changing social situation, improve pertinence and effectiveness, and create students who adapt to the society. Qualified personnel necessary for development.
(Editor: Lin Wenrui)