Zuo Quan Middle School, an old middle school in Taihang Mountain named after the general, wrote a chapter of modern education with wisdom and sweat.
Shanxi Moral Education Demonstration School, Shanxi Civilized School, Shanxi Ordinary Senior High School New Curriculum Experimental Advanced Collective, Shanxi Social Practice Education Advanced School, Jinzhong Civilized Unit and Jinzhong Civilized and Harmonious Unit. These impressive achievements are the fruitful results of our "moral education with revolutionary traditional education as the main line" for many years, relying on the "Left-China Spirit" which combines the fine traditions of Zuo Quan middle schools with the pioneering spirit of keeping pace with the times. Zuo Quan Middle School is an old middle school with a glorious tradition named after General Zuo Quan. Founded in March 1945, it was a key middle school in Shanxi Province with the aim of cultivating revolutionary cadres in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. It has formed a leadership style of "being diligent in study, being good at thinking, constantly deepening and stressing practical results", a school spirit of "being diligent, realistic, inheriting and innovating", a teaching style of "being diligent in study, being strict in teaching, setting an example" and a study style of "being diligent in study, thinking independently, being down-to-earth, being unpretentious and enterprising". These fine traditions and special development background are the source of strength and school-running advantages for the continuous development of middle schools in Zuo Quan. It is precisely because of the fine revolutionary tradition that Zuo Quan Middle School has inherited and carried forward the indomitable spirit and the spirit of the war of resistance in the old areas during its 65-year development, and formed the spirit of unity, dedication, pragmatism and enterprising.
The excellent tradition of running a school has given birth to our thinking on the characteristics of running a school. At the end of last century, with the gradual deepening of education reform, school leaders were far-sighted, saw the practical and historical significance of revolutionary traditional education in the process of modern school construction, and decided to take "moral education with revolutionary traditional education as the main line" as an important breakthrough to improve the quality of running schools in old areas like ours, and took the lead in setting up a special moral education institution in Jinzhong City: Zuo Quan Middle School Teaching Department. And equipped with a strong team of moral education work, established the school moral education work concept of "inheriting tradition, improving the spiritual realm of teachers and students, putting people first and promoting the all-round development of students' quality". Moral education in our school started early and has rich connotations. Today, moral education with revolutionary traditional education as the main line presents the characteristics of paying equal attention to the times and effectiveness. The integration of management and moral education promotes the sustainable development of the school. Moral education is an arduous educational project, and it is also a systematic project that needs special attention to science. How to take revolutionary traditional education as the leading factor to promote the overall improvement of school moral education is a topic that several generations of left-handed people have focused on thinking and practicing. To this end, over the past few years, we have fully explored the connotation of revolutionary traditional education, and combined with the spirit of the times in modern society, constantly changed the way of education, and the educational effect has been fully reflected in the following aspects.
1, patriotism education
Patriotism is one of the deepest feelings a person has established for his motherland for thousands of years. It is the glorious tradition of the Chinese nation, the spiritual pillar of the people of all ethnic groups, and an important task to guide young people to establish correct ideals, beliefs, outlook on life and values and promote the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
In this era, we need to strengthen our sense of social responsibility and historical mission, and make the practical characteristics of patriotism more distinct. Patriotism is an organic whole of emotion, reason and action, and it is the unity of patriotism, ambition to strengthen the country and the trip to serve the country. In today's increasingly fierce international competition, the realistic requirements of patriotism are even stronger. To carry forward patriotism, we must integrate individual actions into the torrent of the times to promote national development and national rejuvenation, and make patriotism a great force to promote social progress. To this end, we have made it clear that:
Basic requirements of patriotism
(1) Great rivers and mountains that love the motherland; Starting from loving hometown, school and class;
(2) love your own flesh and blood compatriots; Starting from loving parents, teachers and classmates;
(3) Love the splendid culture of the motherland; Starting with singing the national anthem, singing folk songs and telling history;
(4) Love your great motherland. Start with learning culture, learning to be a man and stressing civilization.
At the same time, make full use of the inherent ideological and educational nature of the teaching materials, infiltrate patriotism into the teaching of various subjects, and promote it to all aspects of classroom teaching. It also creates conditions to implement in various series of activities of the school.
2. National defense education
Zuoquan County is an old revolutionary base area and a model county of "patriotic support for the army" in China, which is our unique national defense education resource. Our school absorbs the experience of running a school in other places and combines its own reality to integrate national defense education into the teaching of various disciplines, so as to cultivate students' national defense concept of loving their country and family and opposing foreign aggression; Formed the spirit of loving the PLA, advocating heroes and serving the people; We will set up a national defense publicity column to institutionalize, regularize and gradually serialize the revolutionary tradition and national education through literature and art, scientific and technological creation and national defense knowledge contests. At the beginning of the school year, senior one students are organized to carry out military training, and the annual recruitment opportunity is used to organize students to take to the streets, publicize the military service law and carry out practical exercise.
In order to make national defense education activities more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, students are given "priority" in recruiting children from military families and active military personnel. In order to relieve the worries of the PLA, we should give some material and spiritual encouragement and help to the children of martyrs.
3. Unity and cooperation education
"Unity is strength" can make the war win and education succeed. To this end, we have focused on the following aspects of unity and cooperation education.
(1) Pay attention to stimulating the team spirit of teaching staff.
Team is not a simple sum of individuals, but a collection of people who are organized, led, regular, have the same goal, influence each other and have close ties. In stimulating team spirit, we mainly focus on four aspects.
(1) assessment orientation. We actively advocate that the communication between faculty and staff should be based on respect and work on the basis of unity and cooperation, and take it as an important content of assessing teachers, such as the selection of civilized offices, excellent teaching and research groups and excellent grade groups, which optimizes interpersonal relationships and group atmosphere.
(2) Activity cohesion. We actively carry out a series of activities for faculty and staff, cultivate harmonious feelings in various competitions that embody unity and cooperation, and enhance the team consciousness of faculty and staff.
(3) public opinion propaganda. Usually, we actively publicize the typical cases of faculty and staff on various occasions, and then form a public opinion atmosphere that stresses unity, cooperation and dedication.
(4) Humanistic care. According to their own actual situation, we have increased the intensity of emotional input, thought about what the masses think, worried about what the masses are anxious about, and relieved the worries of faculty and staff. The school always gives the greatest help in terms of manpower and material resources to all faculty members who have major events such as weddings, funerals and housing. If the children of faculty and staff are admitted to the university, the school will send a car to the airport or railway station. These have greatly moved and mobilized the faculty.
(2) Pay attention to the construction of harmonious teacher-student relationship.
Good teacher-student relationship is the premise of changing students' learning style, the important content of teachers' morality education under the new situation and the guarantee of education success. Because only when teachers and students are equal can we awaken students' self-esteem and self-confidence and tap their learning potential. Changing the traditional teaching dignity is a difficult and painful process. Therefore, we have issued the Zuo Quan Caring for Middle School Teachers Action Plan, which requires teachers to try their best to influence students with good ethics, to infect students with noble behaviors, to care for students with a broad mind, and to include the feedback of teachers caring for students in the year-end assessment. Secondly, in classroom teaching, we conscientiously implement the evaluation standard of "treating students correctly", which promotes the effective transformation of teachers' education methods.
(3) Pay attention to the cultivation of students' cooperative spirit.
Students get along with each other for a long time, and it is easy to have some small frictions and contradictions. In addition, students' psychological adjustment ability is insufficient, which will easily lead to bad consequences if it is not handled well. Therefore, the relationship between students and students is also an important aspect of campus harmony. In the relationship between students and students, we attach importance to harmonious coexistence as the main theme of class spirit construction, and actively carry out various activities, so that students can experience the strength and warmth of the collective, appreciate the preciousness of friendship between classmates, and understand that friendship needs mutual care and careful cultivation, and then implement it in their own study life. The school also actively publicizes the typical deeds in this respect through radio and electronic screens, which greatly promotes the harmony among students.
4. Harmonious development education
Harmonious education and students' all-round development are essentially the same. To realize students' harmonious development, we must grasp people-oriented, respect students' dominant position and give full play to students' dominant role. In practice, we also realize that the harmonious development of students is manifested in a deeper level, such as having both ability and political integrity, blending emotion and knowledge, blending hand and brain, harmonizing heart and mind, integrating nature and man, and unifying individual and collective development. To this end, we focus on its six aspects and strive to achieve the following three links.
(1) Constructing autonomous management Model
Students are the main body of learning and practical management. The school strives to build an autonomous management model and implement the students' dominant position. Self-management committees have been set up from school to class, realizing property self-management, system self-formulation, process self-monitoring and activity self-organization. At present, students have truly become the masters of management, and self-monitoring, self-execution, self-evaluation and self-education are carried out in an orderly manner: activities such as lectures, debate contests, mock trials and various competitions are vigorously carried out. Students have exercised their talents and wisdom in the activities, and achieved the harmonious unity of emotion and knowledge in the participation, which laid a solid foundation for students' sustainable development.
(2) Construct the classroom teaching mode of independent cooperation and inquiry.
Teaching mode refers to the structure and procedure of the teaching process, that is, the reasonable formation of various teaching elements in the classroom. Independent inquiry and cooperation are the learning methods advocated by the new curriculum. Therefore, constructing the classroom teaching mode of independent inquiry and cooperation is conducive to optimizing the teaching process, implementing the dominant position, realizing the harmonious unity of knowledge, emotion and meaning, and thus improving classroom efficiency.
Modeling activities are divided into four steps: learning model-establishing model-using model-creating model. In the process of modeling, we adhere to the teaching principle of "subject participation, hierarchical optimization, timely feedback and incentive evaluation", and creatively use psychological effects such as "empathy, trust, expectation, infection and success" to say "learning process" and "building a four-person cooperative learning group".
(3) Build a platform for students' all-round development and personality development.
Students' all-round development and personality development are different in quantity and quality, breadth and depth. Whether it is all-round development or personality development, it is inseparable from people's harmonious development, which runs through people's various developments like a red line. Based on this understanding, in the process of education and teaching, we take promoting students' all-round development and personality development as an educational ideal to pursue. In addition to infiltrating this concept into the above-mentioned management practices at home and abroad, we have also made many attempts and efforts in offering activity classes. At present, there are 30 teams in the whole school, and standardized classes and activities have been carried out, which have improved students' quality in participation and accelerated their development in experience. In order to ensure the effect of moral education, we adhere to the following two aspects of strategic advancement.
1, serialized promotion
Moral education is not empty preaching, nor is it illusory. As long as we closely combine education with life, there are moral education materials everywhere. We combine moral education with student activities, and eight large-scale activities every year are unwavering, so that students' educational forms are diversified. Large-scale activities provide a lively and positive environment for children's self-growth. Usually, in March, a poetry recital of "Singing Lei Feng and Learning Lei Feng" will be held, in April, a grave-sweeping and heroic report meeting will be held, in May, a legal network will be held last month, in June, independent, cooperative and innovative activities will be held, and in September, the National Day will be ushered in. These activities contain different themes, each with its own emphasis and mutual connection, through different forms such as reading, singing, watching, acting, writing, drawing and listening. A series of colorful moral education activities have been formed, which have cultivated children's sentiment, cultivated their character and honed their will.
Our school adheres to the system of raising and lowering the national flag. Every Monday, important festivals, anniversaries and large-scale activities, a solemn flag-raising ceremony should be held, and the national flag should be raised and lowered every day. At the beginning of the semester, the flag-raising time of each class is arranged in a unified way and takes turns. And issued the "goal and arrangement of serial speeches under the national flag" table, from loving oneself to loving family, loving the collective, loving the school, loving the hometown and loving the motherland step by step. The speeches under the national flag at the weekly flag-raising ceremony are also novel and diverse, which are close to students' lives (such as telling stories, reciting poems, sketches, Allegro books, etc.). ), and in the majestic national anthem, cultivate students' patriotism, collectivism and love for teachers.
2. Institutionalization.
Institutionalization of moral education is a long-standing practice in our school. Moral education with revolutionary traditional education as the main theme adheres to the principle of "giving full play to advantages, strengthening measures and paying close attention to implementation" and comprehensively implements the "1 105" project, that is, comprehensively implements the education in the following three channels.
(1) Education is the main channel of classroom teaching.
We require teachers of all subjects to fully tap the moral education factors in the subject textbooks according to the actual situation of the textbooks, and determine the goals of emotional attitudes and values in teaching, which are not only reflected in the goals, but also implemented in the teaching process. At the end of the year, the leading group of school moral education should take the form of student questionnaire and consultation teaching plan. And then test each teacher, and then record it in the teacher's business file according to the performance score, which is an important basis for year-end evaluation and professional title evaluation.
(2) Standardize education and moral education in fixed channels.
Over the years, our school has been exploring patriotism education and identified ten fixed standardized education channels. That is, the weekly flag-raising ceremony; Adhere to the daily behavior norms of middle school students; Freshmen receive military training for one week every year; Focus on legal discipline education twice each semester; Theme week education; * * * The special education function of the Communist Youth League; Public opinion propaganda positions of campus radio and blackboard newspaper; The educational function of community, family and off-campus education team; Basic education of patriotism; Annual commendation and summary education. Through the above-mentioned fixed channels of education, students can receive education in a subtle way. In addition, our school also attaches great importance to the moral education and the cultivation of civilized habits for students. In order to implement the Code of Daily Behavior for Middle School Students, as early as 199 1, our school formulated the Implementation Plan for Implementing the Code for Middle Schools in Zuo Quan. Freshmen in senior one receive a one-week entrance education. The first half of the school year is the publicity month of the Code, and a knowledge contest about the Code is held at the beginning of last semester every year, especially in 1995. According to the reality of our school, fourteen articles of "Daily Life for Middle School Students in Zuo Quan" with left and middle characteristics were published, which stipulated the time and things that students should do from morning till night. On the other hand, we also attach great importance to special treatment in stages. For example, in view of the fact that many students are obsessed with Internet cafes, on the one hand, the school focuses on persuasion, offers computer courses and builds green grid; on the other hand, it intensifies inspections, forms a Saturday duty group, and prohibits students from going to Internet cafes. In view of the problem of dirty, chaotic and poor dormitories, on the one hand, the school strengthened supervision and inspection, on the other hand, it commended those clean, neat, civilized and orderly dormitories, and conducted them in time as demonstration dormitories for visiting and studying.
(3) Theme activities broaden educational channels.
Over the years, our school has mainly carried out the following five theme activities to broaden the channels of patriotism education, that is, to cooperate with major festivals and anniversaries, to carry out various forms of educational activities and to carry out various knowledge contests with patriotism as the theme; Use various styles to carry out educational activities; Adhere to the traditional education activities of sweeping graves in Qingming, which has never stopped since the establishment of the school 65 years ago; We will extensively carry out social practice and youth volunteer activities, entertain and entertain, and make patriotic education vigorous and solid. While doing a good job in the "five loves" education and implementing patriotism education, our school still does not relax the education of collectivism and hard struggle, as well as national defense education and safety education, so that it can be dissolved in patriotism education. For example, through military training, collectivism, hard struggle, national defense and national security education are dissolved in patriotism education, so as to achieve the effect of five educations simultaneously. The above are some thoughts and practices on the characteristics of our school. It can be said that "moral education based on revolutionary traditional education" has played a great role in improving the quality of running schools in the past. In the face of the rapid development of education, how to further improve the quality of education and improve the quality of running a school is still a subject for our thinking and research. Therefore, in the future, we should further cultivate the characteristics of running a school, make it bigger and stronger, and make it truly become the core competitiveness of the school under the new situation.
1. Renew ideas and expand the connotation of traditional education.
With the development of the times, we must further expand and deepen the connotation of traditional education in order to make moral education with traditional education as the main line play a more efficient role. Therefore, we must further emancipate our minds, renew our ideas, focus on solving the relationship between inheritance and development, and realize the three values.
(1) Attach importance to the promotion of national spirit. The spirit of Jinggangshan, Long March, Yan 'an, Xibaipo, Daqing people, "two bombs and one satellite", Lei Feng, flood fighting, SARS fighting, "manned space flight" and Olympic struggle formed by our party in the long-term revolutionary struggle and the great practice of socialist modernization have greatly enriched the connotation of national spirit and undoubtedly become good materials for revolutionary traditional education. According to the characteristics of the old revolutionary base areas, these national spirits should be organically integrated with the Taihang spirit and Zuo Quan spirit to make school education more lively, colorful and unique.
(2) Pay attention to the implementation of the "people-oriented" concept. "People-oriented" is a product of the times and an important principle and guiding ideology of moral education under the new situation. Therefore, we must adhere to the "people-oriented" school-running philosophy, innovate educational methods, pay attention to people's all-round development, personality development and innovative development on the premise of respecting people, and finally realize people's scientific development.
(3) Pay attention to mental health education. Mental health education is an important symbol of modern education. On the basis of inheriting traditional education, we should create conditions to strengthen the organic integration of mental health education and traditional education. We should not only let mental health education enter the classroom and open psychological consultation rooms, but also create conditions to invite psychological education experts to the school for special counseling on a regular basis, and carry out psychological diagnosis and treatment activities in a wider scope and at a deeper level to ensure the mental health of teachers and students.
2. Strengthen the construction of moral education team under the guidance of scientific research.
Moral education is both a means and a science. To enhance the effectiveness of moral education, we must strengthen scientific research and attach importance to the important role of scientific research in moral education. We should take moral education as a big topic and bring it into the important research category of the school. The Political and Educational Affairs Department is equipped with full-time and part-time researchers to seriously carry out moral education research. At the same time, teachers and moral educators are actively encouraged to carry out action research in the micro-field at the action level, and strive to improve the efficiency of moral education.
Moral education is a comprehensive project of educating people, moral education and quality education. Teachers' ideological and political quality and professional ethics education level are also key factors, so it is particularly important to strengthen teachers' self-cultivation. Therefore, we should further improve the assessment method of teachers' morality, further implement the system of "three questions, two checks and one veto", create a new pattern of teachers' team construction, and improve the initiative and enthusiasm of teachers' moral education.
3. Create an atmosphere and attach great importance to the construction of campus culture.
Culture is an important force in moral education. Mr. Tao Xingzhi said that "a good life is a good education" and "the natural environment is closely related to personality cultivation". It can be seen that the environment we live in has a guiding, regulating, restraining, encouraging and subtle effect on people's development, and has a strong educational environment, which is very important for moral education in schools. Therefore, on the basis of the construction of traditional culture, we should adhere to the principle of timeliness of moral education, strive to make every wall speak, make every scenic spot shine, and let all faculty and students feel humanistic atmosphere and humanistic care everywhere. At the same time, in every space where students grow up, such as campus, classrooms, reading rooms, laboratories, apartments, restaurants, etc., slogans reflecting the concept of running a school are presented. Always inspire and infect every student. It is also displayed on the wall of teachers' offices, creating a positive humanistic environment for teachers' work and study.