There are too many inspections of schools by the education authorities. How to make education return to its true nature?

Zhang Xingbin, the headmaster of Huanxian No.5 Middle School, began to write articles about education after attending the training course for principals of East China Normal University five years ago. Last year, he bound a series of articles he wrote into a booklet called "Starting with Changing Yourself".

Zhao Xingyi, a teacher of Dongfanghong Primary School in Qingyang City, has been a class teacher for 37 years. He said, "As long as I am still a teacher, I will be the head teacher." Teacher Zhao's attitude towards the head teacher has not changed, but the attitude of young teachers towards the head teacher has changed: if you can never be a head teacher, you will never be a teacher.

Huang Jun, a junior high school Chinese teacher in Rouyuan, Huachi County, launched the curriculum reform project of "Life-oriented Teaching of Chinese Reading and Writing in Junior High School" to encourage students to read the author's life from the text and then write their own life into the composition. As a result, the attitude of students in Chinese class has changed, and the attitude of writing has also changed.

All these "changes", in the view of Lu Huadong, director of Qingyang Education Bureau, can be summarized as "returning education to its true nature". Zhu Yongxin, a famous educator, visited some primary and secondary schools in Qingyang in April this year. In his Weibo, he said with joy, "We have seen the changes in the living conditions of teachers and students in the west".

Make reading a habit.

201April 15, Lu Huadong was deeply moved after reading an article "Every teacher is a principal" written by Liu, the principal of Suzhou No.10 Middle School, and wrote a letter to the principal, which was sent to some principals of schools directly under the city and counties along with Liu's article.

Soon, the principals responded. Lu Shoulong, president of Zhengning No.3 Middle School, said that principals, teachers and students should "look at each other's advantages with appreciation and their shortcomings with development". Tong Junru, principal of Qijialou Junior High School in Xifeng District, said, "The principal should create a channel to wake up every teacher." Dou Xingwen, the headmaster of Qingyang No.1 Middle School who received the letter on the first day of school, said, "The headmaster can still do this!"

Lu Huadong said that 10 years ago, when he first served as the director of Qingyang Education Bureau, he found that there was a common phenomenon among primary and secondary school teachers: "The principal is an inertial principal and the teacher is an experienced teacher." He called this phenomenon "job burnout": "The core of job burnout is utilitarianism and impetuousness, and to overcome utilitarianism and impetuousness, we must nourish teachers' character and cultivate educational ecology through reading. "

In 2005, the "classic reading" activity in primary and secondary schools in Qingyang education system was fully launched. For teachers, the Municipal Education Bureau has issued a unified reading catalogue, which clearly requires every teacher to read at least one educational classic every year, and education directors at all levels must set an example. Since then, "reading clubs" of different sizes have sprung up in various schools, and the "reading clubs" of various schools have frequent exchanges. Reading classics, talking about experiences and writing experiences have gradually become a living habit of teachers, forming a long-term mechanism of "the director takes the principal to read, the principal takes the teacher to read, and the teacher takes the students to read", and a large number of "seed teachers" who love reading and are good at thinking have emerged.

Half an hour before class every afternoon from Monday to Friday, it is the reading time for teachers and students of Dongfanghong Primary School in Qingyang City. The requirements put forward by the school are: "Students don't preview and do their homework, and teachers don't prepare lessons and don't change their homework."

The last two classes every Friday are the whole book reading time for teachers and students in Qingyang No.5 Middle School. The slogan put forward by the school is: "read classic books and take root at the grassroots level."

Every Saturday night from 8: 00 to 9: 30, it is the reading time of the member network of Qingyang Li Zhenxi Education Research Association. The purpose of the seminar is to "listen to the master's teachings and feel the true meaning of education."

This year, the city's education system launched the "one book, one salon" classic reading activity. The idea of the Municipal Education Bureau is: "* * * Read a book and think about one thing."

Many teachers who graduated from normal universities said that they had never read educational classics at school, but they didn't expect to read them after work. Many schools display books written by teachers and students in their reading achievement showrooms, which is not only a vivid interpretation of "scholarly campus", but also the best footnote for "happy teachers".

Before this year 10 months, Fan Jianguo, the headmaster of Dongfanghong Primary School in Qingyang City, read nine books, and Suhomlinski's "Suggestions for Teachers" was read twice, making more than 20,000 words of reading notes. He said that a lot of reading accumulation has made the teachers of Dongfanghong Primary School more and more emboldened, more and more aura and more atmospheric. "The normal state of school education is to let students follow real scholars."

"This book guides me into the child's mind; Books have made my classroom. " Huang Hongyan, a Chinese teacher at Qingcheng Primary School in Qingcheng County, said in her article "Reading, Being a Happy Teacher", "Now, I can't live without books."

Change it from the teacher.

Primary and secondary school teachers in Qingyang like to use a word "reflection". Reading a book, listening to a lecture, receiving a training and participating in a discussion will all talk about "reflection".

Zhang Xingbin used to be a Chinese teacher in a middle school for more than 20 years. 20 10 after he became the principal of the newly-built Huanxian No.5 Middle School, he had more opportunities to visit and train. He said that since then, he has told his teachers more about his shortcomings and failures: "I want to reflect my reflection to the younger generation of teachers as soon as possible." 20 1 1 The curriculum reform of Huanxian No.5 Middle School is in full swing. "If you follow the old path, you will always fall behind." The "new road" of Huanxian No.5 Middle School begins with teachers' writing-forcing them to read through writing and changing the tradition that teachers only talk but don't do; Stimulate teaching and research through writing, and change the habit that teachers only teach without thinking; Remembering professional happiness through writing can change teachers' mentality that only education is not "happiness".

After the senior high school entrance examination in Zhengning County, each teacher is required to write a "work reflection", which is then directly handed over to the principal, who will personally comment on it. They call this kind of communication "spiritual dialogue". Ren Youyun, the principal, said that I didn't expect the first conversation to cause a lot of "shock" among the teachers, and it also caused many changes. The weekly meeting was changed to "educational narrative", and teachers took turns telling stories in their own education and teaching process in different grades; The subject teaching and research activities were changed to "World Coffee". At the beginning of the semester, every teacher will ask a question he meets, and several questions will be selected for discussion in each activity. ...

Lu Huadong said that only through professional development and awakening teachers' professional consciousness can teachers' mental state be truly changed.

At the beginning, the most important thing is to go out and come in for training. I went to Beijing Normal University, Huazhong Normal University, Southwest Normal University and Shaanxi Normal University, and came to China's most famous education experts such as Wang Dinghua, Zheng Richang, Ding Rong, Zhu Yongxin and Li Zhenxi. Many teachers say that after entering the world of famous educators, they realize that they have been closed for too long.

Now, the most important thing is multi-channel and all-round training. New teachers' professional growth plans such as "Blue Plan" and "Master Studio" have taken root in counties and districts, and new teachers' growth mechanisms such as "star management" and "hierarchical management" have blossomed everywhere in schools, and new ways of teacher interaction such as "heterogeneous learning in the same class" have been widely accepted by teachers. Dou Xingwen was deeply touched: teachers should learn from teachers more seriously than we thought, and teachers' desire to catch up with teachers is stronger than we thought.

Yang Yanrong, a teacher from Qingyang Experimental Primary School, after listening to the lecture "Being a Happy, Happy and Accomplished Head Teacher" by Ding Rong, a national excellent head teacher, realized that all kinds of materials of students are "the work history of the head teacher".

Dongfanghong Primary School in Qingyang launched the "Towards Excellence" teacher professional development training program on 2011. What makes them even more proud is that three years later, the national "excellent teacher" training plan launched by the Ministry of Education in September 20 14 was also named after "Excellence". Principal Jianzhong Fang said: "Excellent teachers are cultivated, not selected."

Regarding the goal of teachers' professional development, Qingyang proposed to build a team of teachers with both ability and political integrity, a team of class teachers who loved life since childhood, and a team with educators as principals. They believe that when teachers change, schools change, students change and education changes.

Speaking of the changes in education in Qingyang, people who come to visit and study inside and outside the province have a common feeling: calm, quiet and true.

Take students as the theme.

On September 20 13, Guo Yalong's "Suitable for Classroom" famous teacher studio was listed in Qingyang No.5 Middle School. Guo Yalong is only a teacher in Qingyang No.5 Middle School, but his famous teacher studio has set up several workstations, which are distributed in all counties and districts of the city. The studio updates the theme blog once a week, holds a theme salon once a month and holds a theme seminar once a semester. This "theme" is "students": "to realize the formation and all-round development of students' personality, lay a foundation for students' personality and life, and help students become people with perfect personality and lifelong happiness."

Qiao, the teaching director of He Shan Primary School in Zhengning County, asked more than 40 students to write a poem after learning the unit of "Knocking on the Door of Poetry" in the sixth grade Chinese. She didn't expect every student to be so excited about writing poems and so confident in their own poems. Like the students, she also entered the state, organized and guided the students to set up an editorial department, let them copy, design, illustrate and bind themselves, and produced a "handmade" collection of poems, Autumn Poetry and Winter Rhyme, which was circulated by the whole class. She said that she saw a sense of treasure and accomplishment from the students' expressions.

There is a Chinese class in Senior One of No.5 Middle School in Huanxian County. In the process of students' "pair learning" and "group learning", a teacher in a foreign school can't help but "talk" to the students around him. At this time, a student gave him a "warning": "Teacher, you speak very well, but we must teach ourselves before we can listen to you." After a while, the teacher began to speak enthusiastically again. When the Chinese teacher in the classroom saw this situation, he quietly left the classroom. Soon, a staff member of the Academic Affairs Office came to the classroom and "advised the teacher to stop": "Hello, teacher, this is the time for students to study by themselves. Please trust the students. He must have his own opinion. " Another teacher was deeply touched when talking about this class: "The students' explanations shocked me. "

"Let the course open a door for students, and every door leads to a happy and complete educational life." "Let the flower of truth grow naturally in the classroom." "Let the passion of life rise in every corner of the campus." In the process of deepening the "new curriculum reform", Qingyang Education Bureau encourages all counties, districts and schools to carry out curriculum innovation and classroom innovation in an eclectic way according to the actual situation of students and the idea of "opening national courses, supplementing local courses, developing school-based courses and exploring school-based courses", and one after another "charming courses", "charming classrooms" and "charming campuses" with students as the center have emerged.

In Qingyang No.5 Middle School, the first three minutes of each class are students' speaking time, and students can talk about what they know and think like teachers. The last two classes every Wednesday afternoon are the "course supermarket" of the whole school. Middle school students can walk into other classes like college students and take courses that interest them.

In Dongfanghong Primary School in Qingyang City, there are a series of literary and art societies named after "Sun": Sun Soul Orchestra, Sun River Broadcasting Host Society, Sun Bird Choir, Sun Valley Campus Drama Society, Sun Flower Dance Team and Sunshine Hulusi Society; There are also a series of off-campus education bases. Every day, a class of students go to the fields and factories to have survival practice classes.

In Rouyuan Junior High School in Huachi County, Mr. Huang Jun, the former class teacher, often celebrated the students' birthdays, and the students sang birthday songs. He wrote a birthday poem-you are a silent gem of Xu, a grass, and I hope you are a soaring dragon of Cao Hailong. ...

Ye Shengtao, a famous educator, said: "Education is agriculture, not industry." At a national education experiment conference, Lu Huadong said in his keynote speech: "Educating people is actually the same as planting crops. We should go deep into the fields with the attitude of farmers bending over and do real education. This is the path we choose. We are not afraid to travel far and slow. "