Professor Zhu Yongxin said: Curriculum is the life and vitality of new education. The richness and profundity of the curriculum determine the richness and extensibility of individual life in the new educational vision.
This trip to Haimen is short of time, but every time I pass by a school, the strong consciousness, wide range and rich content of action research and development of excellent courses, as well as the coherence, characteristics and regionality of curriculum research and development, constantly bring me ideological collision and reflection. We passed through Tong Yuan Primary School, Zhongzhou International Primary School and Haimen Experimental Primary School. The children's confident sunny faces, smooth expressions and wonderful and beautiful performances all explained the rapid growth and inner enrichment of teachers and students under the guidance of the new education curriculum.
Tong Yuan Primary School in Haimen City has constructed and implemented a "holistic, three-dimensional, comprehensive and in-depth" new life education, which has been carried out for more than ten years. Courses include personalized courses, such as educated life etiquette courses and colorful holiday courses. Intelligence courses, such as "life theme reading course" and "science game ladder course"; Art courses, such as "folk art courses" and "life drama courses"; Physical education courses, such as fancy exercises, finger exercises, etc. They pay attention to children's life growth through rich life courses, and help children know, explore and cherish life. These courses are well organized, rich in content and self-contained.
In Central South International School, President Zhu introduced the school's curriculum objectives in detail: curriculum is environment, curriculum is life, and curriculum is opportunity. Let the campus external environment such as green trees and red flowers, corridor stairs, book bars and bookshelves become courses, so that the campus is full of vitality, breathing and talking. For example, a string of wind chimes hanging in the corridor can only be heard if they are shaken by the wind and listened quietly. This is also a course aimed at educating children to keep the campus quiet and learn to listen quietly. In the theme activities of China Year, each class has developed different courses, such as the world of bamboo, the world of bridge, the world of fans, the world of Chinese knots and the world of martial arts. , so as to realize one class and one class, and everyone participates in the R&D course together. Internationalized schools have an international vision, and curriculum development also matches it, which gives people surprises.
Through study tour, think about the action of developing excellent courses;
1. Every teacher should be encouraged to become a curriculum developer. It is not difficult to develop courses. As long as you want, there will be results. As long as you act, there will be results.
2. The research and development of the curriculum should be grounded, starting from the needs of children, that is, respecting students. It is impossible to excel without a course based on the growing point of children's life.
3. We should take root in the local area, base ourselves on the present situation and needs of teachers and students, make up for the missing or neglected parts of the curriculum, and explore the deep-seated "moral cultivation" of education.
4. The research and development of the curriculum should also conform to the school's school-running philosophy and characteristics, and find the best fit point.
5. You can start from a small course and gradually improve it during walking to form a system.
Professor Zhu said: the classroom is a pole, one is the course, the other is the life. Excellent life is nourished by excellent courses. Although there is no fixed model for developing excellent courses, it is a pursuit, a direction and a journey. It is a teacher's happy gift to children and a reward for himself.