School Characteristics of No.1 Middle School in Xishan District, Kunming

The school motto of Xishan District No.1 Middle School is "Preparing for a Successful Life". Since the establishment of the school, XISHAN YISHAN has always adhered to the direction of cultivating "socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intellect, physique and aesthetics", focusing on the overall improvement of students' quality and the all-round cultivation and molding of students. The school has set up many student organizations such as literary club, chorus team, dance team, band, basketball team, soccer team, track and field team, etc. The school is approved by the Sports Bureau of Kunming City to set up a sports club. It is a sports traditional program (track and field) school approved by the Sports Bureau of Kunming.

There are characteristics of life, in order to give students more paths to success, the school took the road of special education, the creation of the college entrance examination art class in 2002, and the creation of high school sports class and music class in 2005, arts and sports features have become a highlight of Xishan First Middle School school, each year featured on-line rate of the college entrance examination class is 100%. The school in line with the "scientific research to promote teaching and research" policy, vigorously carry out research in education and teaching, is approved by the China Youth Research Center listed in the "China Youth Quality Education Research and Practice Base". Conducted "children and youth behavior and personality of the relationship between the study" of the national education science "15" planning research. We have carried out research projects such as "research-based learning", "Zhang Sizhong English teaching method", "ladder learning", etc., and achieved excellent results, and for many years the research-based learning has won awards at national, provincial and municipal levels. The research projects such as "Zhang Sizhong's English Teaching Method" and "Ladder Learning" have achieved excellent results. Because of the outstanding achievements of "ladder learning method", the fourth national seminar on ladder learning method was held in our school in 2005. 2009, our school's education reform centered on classroom teaching reform, focusing on building an efficient classroom, and fully implementing the "one standard, two sections and one test" teaching mode, which is a new teaching model. In 2009, our education reform centered on classroom teaching reform, focusing on creating an efficient classroom, and fully implementing the "one standard, two sections, one test" teaching model, the new classroom teaching characteristics have been initially formed and achieved good results. For many years the school teachers and students to carry out a number of subjects in the province, city, district "innovation competition" in the award; teachers' teaching teaching and research papers have been published in the national, provincial and municipal publications and hundreds of awards.