Dribble, pass, shoot ... Recently, the reporter came to Guanshan Middle School in Suining County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province for an interview. Gao Min, a sophomore (1), is playing football with his friends on a brand-new plastic playground in the last class of physical education class in the morning.
Xuzhou is a "big education city". In recent years, the city's investment in education has been "overweight", and nearly a quarter of its fiscal expenditure is used for education every year. This move has enabled many rural children like Gao Min to have beautiful school buildings, bright canteens and standardized playgrounds.
However, there are still many problems to be solved for Xuzhou education located in northern Jiangsu. Some rural schools have weak conditions for running schools, and there is a big gap between urban and rural education levels ... It is not enough to rely solely on investment. Zhang Dechao, director of the Education Bureau of Xuzhou City, said that Xuzhou launched the compulsory education thinning project in an all-round way, which not only invested "real money", but also paid attention to the quality of reform and management efficiency, and exerted "ingenuity" to lengthen the "short board" of Xuzhou education.
To optimize the school layout, it is necessary to "fill the shortcomings" and "improve the level"
"Our school has 1522 students, and it is expected to reach more than 2,200 in three years. The existing school buildings are stretched. " Wang Mei, the principal of Jing 'an Town Central Primary School in Peixian County, once suffered from the increasing pressure of students. This summer vacation, this problem that bothers her will be completely solved-all teachers and students will move into the new campus across the street.
The difficulties that Jing 'an Central Primary School once faced are very representative in Xuzhou. "In 20 10, there were about 654.38+million new students enrolled in primary schools in our city, and it reached170,000 in 20 14. The existing school space is almost saturated, and it is urgent to expand the total amount of educational resources. " Zhang Dechao said.
However, in sharp contrast to the overall growth of students, some remote rural schools are facing an "empty shell" crisis. According to statistics, there are 28 small villages with less than 200 people in Pei County. "In this context, just building new school buildings in rural areas will not only keep students, but will waste resources." He Lei, director of Pei County Education Bureau, said.
Taking the opportunity of sparseness, Xuzhou started the compulsory education layout optimization project, and built, rebuilt and expanded schools to optimize and improve the layout planning of primary and secondary schools according to the changes in students brought about by new urbanization, population mobility and "two children alone". At the same time, the relevant schools are not satisfied with minor repairs, but comprehensively improve the level of teachers and management, and take thinning as a major opportunity to "improve the level".
Ma Yuan Primary School in Peixian was once a small village, which was merged in the layout adjustment. In recent years, with the strengthening of new rural construction, rows of new rural communities have emerged around the school. In 20 14, Pei County invested 20 million yuan to restore and rebuild Ma Yuan Primary School in its original site.
It's not just the school buildings that are newly returned. In terms of running a school, the school was taken over by Peixian Experimental Primary School, and the group running mode was implemented. The two schools have unified deployment of teachers, unified management and unified assessment, and this recovered village has become a quality school in the eyes of villagers.
According to statistics, from 20 12 to 20 14, Xuzhou built, rebuilt and expanded 223 primary and secondary schools, and plans to build 18 primary and secondary schools this year.
In addition to "addition", Xuzhou thinning also does "subtraction". Starting with municipal schools, on the one hand, we should promote the reform of running schools by trusteeship and regional collectivization, and balance regional educational resources; On the other hand, according to the standards of compulsory education schools, the large class size in urban areas and hot schools will be gradually reduced.
Seek benefits from management and send good principals to weak schools.
17 classes all use electronic whiteboards, and 96 full-time teachers have a laptop ... Entering Taoyuan Middle School in Suining County, the campus is full of vitality. The most remote township school in western Xuzhou has just experienced a "rebirth".
A few years ago, Taoyuan Middle School entered a trough and became one of the weakest schools in the county. 2065438+In August 2004, Wanqing Wang, who led Ji Li Middle School and Qing 'an Middle School out of the development trough, was transferred to Taoyuan Middle School as the principal. Facing the existing problems, Wanqing Wang decided to start with changing teachers' teaching. Not only did he resume his coaching, but he also had four history classes every week. He also insisted on attending lectures and patrolling classes every day, and actively participated in collective lesson preparation, quality analysis and various seminars. At his initiative, the school set up a 16 QQ lesson preparation group, and teachers uploaded their electronic lesson plans, tutoring plans and courseware to the QQ exchange group for discussion.
The headmaster took the lead in learning, the teachers made progress, and the change happened quietly. "Teachers are full of energy, the level of classroom teaching has improved, and more and more students have come back." Wanqing Wang said.
In Suining County, there are many "transfer principals" like Wanqing Wang. "A self-motivated and professional principal like Wanqing Wang will generally adjust to a better school after making achievements in the original school. However, our county does the opposite. After the administrative rank of primary and secondary school principals was abolished in 2009 and the principal appointment system was implemented, we selected outstanding principals to the most needed rural schools. " Peng Yan, director of Suining Education Bureau, said.
Like Suining county, in the process of thinning, many counties and districts in Xuzhou have started with "software" such as the construction of principals to promote the innovative development of education.
In view of the weak links in teaching quality, Pei County has successively made three "hard moves": First, the system of eliminating the last principal through comprehensive assessment was implemented for three consecutive years, and in the school year of 2065,438+03-2065,438+04, 18 primary and secondary school principals were dismissed; Second, strengthen cooperation with advanced education areas to run schools and introduce outstanding management talents as middle school principals; Third, starting from 20 12, the number of cadres in primary and secondary schools will be fixed, posts will be fixed, responsibilities will be fixed, and more than 400 famous school cadres will be reduced. This "real" reform has effectively improved the management level of primary and secondary school principals in this county.
Spend a little money to do great things, and expand the coverage of high-quality resources by informationization.
Not long ago, the reporter came to Luo Primary School in Zhuzhai Town, Pei County. In the multimedia classroom, the teachers are looking at the multimedia screen attentively, watching the Chinese and math classes taught by two teachers in Zhengyang Primary School in Peixian County. After class, more than 50 teachers from two schools carried out online teaching and research activities.
These two schools are just one representative of many online twinning schools in Xuzhou. Through convenient and efficient information channels, urban and rural schools in this city extensively carry out integrated school management, teaching research, teacher training, online lesson preparation and other activities, so that teachers and students in rural schools can enjoy high-quality education and teaching resources without leaving home.
"Compared with the investment in hardware such as infrastructure, educational informatization can do big things with small money." Zhang Dechao said that in the past two years, Xuzhou invested nearly 65.438+0.8 billion yuan to purchase multimedia equipment such as computers and interactive electronic whiteboards, helping 654.38+0.000% of rural schools to achieve "broadband network connectivity". Through policy support and resource inclination, the city has continuously narrowed the information gap between regions, between urban and rural areas and between schools.
With the continuous improvement of the foundation of educational informatization, Xuzhou has built an educational information resource service platform supported by "classroom", "Pengcheng open class" and "micro-classroom", bringing together 860,000 kinds of resources. Relying on this platform, primary and secondary schools in this city widely carry out teaching and research activities such as recording "micro-lessons", online collective lesson preparation, and live broadcast of excellent courses. A network cable allows teachers and students in urban and rural schools to enjoy high-quality educational resources.
20 14 Xuzhou took the lead in fully passing the national certification of counties with basically balanced development of compulsory education in northern Jiangsu. "We look forward to narrowing the gap between urban and rural education and inter-school education through refinement, running every school well and teaching every student well, and helping Xuzhou education achieve a new leap from basic balance to high-quality balance." Zhang Dechao said.