The car drove slowly through the winding country road, and all the farmland was unobstructed. Guo Guangxing in Changhua County is surrounded by fields on three sides. Residents used to make a living by farming. However, with the industrial transformation and emigration, the population gradually withered, leaving only 33 students the year before last. Changhua county stipulates that if the number of students is less than 40, it is necessary to carry out school development evaluation. Guangxing has bottomed out for four consecutive years.
Compared with the crisis two years ago, the number of primary school students in Guo Guangxing is increasing exponentially. It not only lifted the crisis of merging schools, but also won awards again and again.
These glories are achieved through a set of characteristic courses. In rural areas, agriculture is the "root" to maintain the lifeline. Wu, president of Guangxing University, believes that Guangxing education should be rooted in agriculture. However, he found that in the community dominated by agriculture, children are very unfamiliar with agriculture; Parents who rely on agriculture as a source of income are not familiar with marketing.
"If agriculture didn't stay, the school would close sooner or later. Wu Dui said: Therefore, he put forward the mint curriculum structure of Wenchuang Xiaoqing Agriculture, which takes local identity as the core and extends to marketing creativity, ecological sustainability and cross-domain sharing. Students should not only cherish their status as farmers, but also have the ability to contribute to this land.
Back two years ago, when WU GANG took office, a teacher advised him: "President, don't work hard, just let it (the school) be abolished. There are also rumors that after Guangxing abandoned the school, the original school will open a nursing home. Unwilling to give up, Wu communicated with the county, suspended the evaluation of the merged school, and determined to revive the country within two years.
However, many parents choose to send their children outside the school district because their children are not competitive in Guangxing. Jiang, the head of educational administration who went to primary school in the same year as the principal, lamented: "Every time I stand outside to guide protection, I will see many parents riding motorcycles with their children outside. Therefore, the school should not only try to keep the original students, but also strive for the recognition of foreign parents, so as to save the crisis of abandoning school.
However, as soon as they took office, they made drastic innovations and planned new courses, which made many teachers unbearable and applied for retirement. Only one year later, Wu became the second person in the school.
In order to find teachers who share the same ideas and are willing to pay, Wu introduced them to others through online marketing. It was not until last year that she organized the current team of teachers. The average age of the team is 32 years old, two thirds are acting teachers, and some even have no teaching experience. But Wu is not afraid. He thinks enthusiasm is more important than anything else. "Without enthusiasm, he may leave after a year or a semester. Teachers are encouraged to go to graduate school for further study, and teachers with teaching experience are also allowed to take others forward.
Many teachers in Guo Guangxing primary school are new, but they are full of enthusiasm for teaching. President Wu (Yuan Zhong) is an important promoter of the team. Ni she
Guangxing's flexible course MINT (native identity, innovation, cultural creativity, natural ecological sustainability, cross-cultural and cross-domain communication) is strung together by herbs, from planting herbs, making vanilla desserts, and vanilla dishes from various countries to non-toxic agricultural methods, creative marketing, and transnational communication. What's more, vanilla is compared to the seedling of inheriting culture, which leads students to know the villages in the school district, traces the history of Erlin, and revives the car drum array that has disappeared for 50 years.
I use vanilla as the image of the course. In fact, one day Jiang and Wu went to the rooftop and saw a herb standing among withered plants. Jiang recalled: "since this herb can survive, it shows that we have a great fate with it." Moreover, when children come to school for good training, they can take root and sprout on the land like vanilla, and then bloom fragrance. 」
On the roof of the school, there are rows of herbs. Characteristic courses start from the situation of vanilla garden and string up the whole course. Photographed in Guo Guangxing small fan group in Erlin Town, Changhua County.
Characteristic courses are implemented as flexible courses, which are divided into four axes: local identity, literary creativity, ecological sustainability and cross-domain communication. According to different axes and grades, take children to find problems from the situation of vanilla garden, and cultivate students' interdisciplinary abilities such as nature, art and Chinese through group learning and practical experience, supplemented by scientific and technological tools.
In the creative axis of Wenqing, Li Yuling, a junior tutor with culinary expertise, took students to make vanilla tea and vanilla dessert with herbs on campus. In this process, students not only learned about food raw materials, but also introduced the development and origin of desserts. After the dessert is ready, it will be handed over to other teachers to take students to learn packaging and creative design, and then go outside for a charity sale, and then donate the proceeds to local groups.
Li Yuling shared that in the featured courses, students' smiles increased. There is a student in the class who used to run out of the classroom as long as he was unhappy and didn't want to attend class, which made his parents very worried. But after I transferred to Guangxing, I never ran out of the classroom because of these interesting courses. Li Yuling said with a smile, "He can do whatever he wants, and his parents will no longer worry, otherwise he will cry there when he first comes. 」
Students make cookies with their own herbs and learn to work in groups in practice. Photographed in Guo Guangxing small fan group in Erlin Town, Changhua County.
In the axis of ecological sustainable development, in addition to taking children to grow crops and understand non-toxic farming, we also hope to inherit or keep the existing knowledge so that students can reserve sustainable energy. To this end, Jiang led students around the school to interview local elderly people, local farmers or local enterprises in combination with what they learned in the local identity course, so that students could integrate information and have a dialogue with others. Students are also trained as small anchors to broadcast news on the "Guangxing News Channel".
In the cross-domain communication axis, parents of new residents from all over the world are invited to the school to introduce how to use vanilla in their hometown dishes. Through video, students can introduce local culture and herbal cultivation to foreign partners, not only practice speaking English, but also exchange life experiences with others. Extend from the ground to the outdoors to establish international friendship.
Parents of new residents are invited to school to learn the language of the country with herbs, so that students can feel the cultures of different countries from specific experiences. Jiang provided
"It is easy to go out to make a living, but it is actually very difficult to stay and live a good life. Wu Dui said: During his two years in Guangxing, he found that the mayor of Erlin Town attached importance to the marketing of agricultural products, so he invited the mayor to participate in the course of cultural and creative axis. Knowing that the local organization "Zheqing Culture Studio" has a profound cultural heritage in the local area, I took the initiative to ask if there could be curriculum cooperation to bring young farmers back to the campus. Only by giving students a rich vision and cultivating cross-disciplinary ability can they take root in the countryside.
Teachers take students out of the classroom and interview people in various fields, so that students have the opportunity to contact diverse problems. Photographed in Guo Guangxing small fan group in Erlin Town, Changhua County.
Director Yang Suling pointed out the key of this course: "It brought back the centripetal force of the whole community. Students' learning field is no longer limited to campus. The object of learning is not only teachers, but also Guangxing cooperates with parents, agricultural enterprises, and recovers with the community, so that everyone can become a learning body.
And these courses can be carried out smoothly, and teachers are the biggest promoters. Wei Junjie, the intermediate tutor who led the course, admitted that the course was very complicated and it was really difficult to implement, but he never felt tired. "For us, this school is really interesting and we want to do something in it. 」
Thanks to Wu's bold innovation and the efforts of a group of enthusiastic teachers, Guangxing is no longer an old school with low morale and waiting to close two years ago. In the gloomy campus and classroom full of laughter, Guangxing constantly attracts talents with the same ideas, and students are more identified with their hometown and have a broader future.
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