Practitioner of "Famous Principal's Demeanor" Curriculum Reform Practitioner and Education Dreamer - Remembering Song Yali, Principal of Dongfanghong School in Changzi County

Curriculum Reform Practitioners Education Dream Builders

z Principal Song Yali of Dongfanghong School in Zhangzi County

A pair of brown square glasses and neat short hair, this cheerful and capable female principal walked into the campus, the students They greeted her warmly. "The children regard me as a close 'big friend', and I want to create a happy growth paradise for them from the bottom of my heart." This is the persistent pursuit of Song Yali, the principal of Dongfanghong School in Changzi County.

walked into Song Yali's office. The most striking thing in the simple display was the group photos of her with teachers and students in various activities on the bookcase. Two pieces of calligraphy hung on the wall. Everyone knows that this is her understanding of the law of education for many years, and it is also a realm she pursues in her life and work.

In 1991, after graduating from the former Changzhi No. 2 Normal School, Song Yali became a language teacher at Dongjie Primary School in Changzi County with her boundless longing for education. Like many ambitious young people, she hopes to do a good job in education. Since teaching, she has been exploring and honing teaching skills in teaching, and has achieved fruitful teaching results. Public classes such as "Goodbye, Relatives", "You Think "Wrong", " Pony Crossing the River " and other public classes in the county were well received by many industry insiders, and were made into video tapes for teachers throughout the county to observe and learn . In addition, she has also undertaken the training of key teachers in the county for many times.

Because of her outstanding work ability, in 2008, Song Yali was appointed as the principal of Dongfanghong School in Zhangzi County. Song Yali said that as the leader of the school's development, the principal's continuous enthusiasm for learning, curiosity about the unknown, and persistent exploration of the truth all play an exemplary and guiding role in a school's style of study and teaching.

As an educator, she devotes herself to education; as a principal, she leads by example.

After serving as the principal, Song Yali led the school to deepen the reform of education and teaching, actively and steadily promote the reform of the curriculum, innovate the teacher training system, and further promote the balanced development of education, playing a leading role in the innovation and development of the county's basic education.

Zhangzi County Dongfanghong School, as one of the eight curriculum reform experimental schools in the county, took the lead in implementing the new curriculum reform in the county. In September 2008, Song Yali organized the main administrative and key teachers of the school to conduct innovative research in line with the curriculum reform method of "experimentation, exploration, rectification, and improvement", combined with the actual situation of the school. -Three lessons and four rings classroom teaching mode. This model is based on the basic concept of "allowing every child to enjoy the opportunity to demonstrate and experience success", and uses cooperative learning groups as a unit to conduct pre-class preview, in-class learning, and after-class review, and promote autonomous learning in the classroom in an orderly manner. Through the four links of cooperative exploration, intensive teaching, and effective training, the quality of classroom teaching has achieved a leap from effective, practical to high-efficiency. The school has also been awarded the honors of "National Curriculum Reform Base School" and "Shanxi Province Curriculum Reform Demonstration School".

"Through the comprehensive implementation of the classroom teaching reform, not only the students' interest in learning has been stimulated, the learning efficiency has been improved, but also obvious educational and teaching effects have been achieved," said Song Yali.

During the interview, the reporter came to the corridor on the second floor of the teaching area. There are dozens of wonderful technological instruments installed on the walls on both sides of the corridor. During recess, children can carefully observe the breathable and impermeable cloth, personally feel the strength of the chaotic pendulum, and deeply explore the mystery of the magnetic field... There is also an open science popularization series butterfly hall at the corner of the corridor, which displays nearly a hundred Specimens of butterflies. On both sides of the corridor on the third floor are the students' calligraphy and creative art works. The immature brushwork, bold use of colors, and imaginative compositions fully demonstrate the children's colorful inner world.

Song Yali introduced while walking: "Let the students concentrate on their studies in the classroom, and let the students find their interests outside the classroom. This is the original intention of running a school with community courses." bright and spaciousClassrooms, fully functional teaching equipment. How to make these infrastructures work is crucial to the driving force of education and teaching. Song Yali and the school teachers decided to expand the previous "interest groups" into "community courses" after repeated deliberation and consideration, and implemented the "5+2+1+4" after-school service model. During the four weeks of summer, winter and summer vacations, more than 100 after-school service courses in 8 categories covering traditional Chinese studies, arts and sports characteristics, red studies, and non-genetic inheritance have been developed, providing students with better educational resources and realizing that every student in the school has courses. , All of them have specialties.

For more than ten years, from "interest groups" to "community courses" to "after-school services", Changzi County Dongfanghong School has focused on deepening the reform of classroom teaching, developing characteristic school-based courses, and creating a cultural and educational environment. The level of education has been significantly improved. It has successively become the observation point of the Changzhi Classroom Teaching Site Meeting, the Shanxi Provincial Basic Education Site Meeting, and the National Basic Education Comprehensive Reform Site Meeting. The school's school-running model has also been unanimously recognized by experts and scholars.

Song Yali's persistent and unforgettable educational feelings, her practical style of being brave in practice and daring to develop, and her innovative spirit of pioneering demonstration and seeking development have contributed to the development of Dongfanghong School in Changzi County, and laid a solid foundation for the school's long-term development. Over the years, Song Yali has successively won honorary titles such as provincial-level special-grade teachers, provincial-level academic leaders, "Famous Principals of Primary and Secondary Schools" in Shanxi Province, and Shanxi Province Teaching Experts.

In the face of achievements and honors, Song Yali's pursuit has not stopped. She said: "The life of struggle is the most beautiful. We must run hard, be dream builders in education, and strive to make students become talents, teachers grow, and schools develop."

(Reporter丨Li Pan)