Yingshan, Sichuan: High quality education benefits urban and rural students

Education is an important livelihood project and also an important engine for regional development. In recent years, Yingshan County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, has anchored the goal of high-quality education development, taking "comprehensive factor guarantee, comprehensive examination, and all-round activation" as the working lever, continuously improving talent quality through "integrated training", shaping brand advantages through "characteristic development", and strengthening teaching effectiveness through "efficient classrooms", and making every effort to provide satisfactory education for the people.

Training empowers the development of a high-quality teaching staff

Classmates, the new semester has already begun. Let's learn the 'first lesson of the semester' together. Firstly, we must focus on safety issues... "On September 1st, in the eighth grade classroom of Muya Elementary School in Yingshan County, Teacher Pu Rui led the students on their learning journey for the new semester.

As a publicly funded teacher training student who will graduate in 2024, Pu Rui has shed her youthful vigor when she first stepped onto the podium, and has gained a bit of composure and proficiency. When she first started working, she felt both fresh and confused about teaching work, "Pu Rui recalled. Fortunately, the county teacher training school quickly organized pre job training for new teachers to help her smoothly enter her job role.

Pu Rui introduced that the training content covers updating educational concepts, improving information technology capabilities, interpreting new curriculum standards, and also arranging classroom observation activities for outstanding teachers in the county. With the help of multiple parties, she gradually became proficient from being at a loss at the beginning. Not only did she excel in completing the onboarding report course, but she also achieved good results in the new teacher teaching competition on campus. She also won the second prize in this year's county's high-quality course exhibition and evaluation.

We implement the 'Three Main and Four Stage' training model to help new teachers quickly transform their roles and achieve growth, "said Li Ruyi, Vice President of the County Teacher Training School. This model consists of three main bodies: the County Teacher Training School, the District Education Supervision Group, and the New Teacher Employment School. Through four stages of centralized training, online training, return to work practice, and skill testing, it helps new teachers establish a sense of professional identity, master educational core concepts, and basic teaching skills.

In addition, teacher training adheres to the principle of 'all staff, all subjects, and all coverage', covering all teachers in the county. Each teacher's training credits per academic year shall not be less than 72 points, "said Li Ruyi.

From an ordinary teacher in a rural school, to the "leader" of primary school English teaching in the county, and then to a provincial-level primary school English backbone teacher and the host of the Yingshan County Primary School English Teacher Studio, Li Li, a teacher at Jinhua Hope Primary School, has grown for more than 10 years, which is a vivid reflection of Yingshan's efforts to build a high-quality teaching team.

When primary school English teaching was just starting, how to make children fall in love with English and make the classroom more efficient was a question I pondered every day. "Li Li recalled that when she was at a loss, the county teacher training school launched a series of activities such as subject teacher training, seed teacher training," Ten Hundred Thousand "famous teacher project training, and support project (famous teacher) training, which opened up new ideas for her.

Through repeated training exchanges, Li Li continuously gained experience and improved her teaching level. After becoming the host of Yingshan County Elementary School English Teacher Studio, Li Li became even busier. After years of exploration, she and the members of the studio jointly proposed the concept of "co creation, sharing, and co growth" in primary school English education. By enhancing the professional abilities of the studio members, it drives the overall improvement of the teaching level of primary school English teachers in the county and helps to upgrade the quality of primary school English education in the county.

We adhere to the concept of integrated research and training, taking 'inviting in+going out' and 'online+offline' as the main paths, innovatively carrying out precise training at the national, provincial, municipal, county, and school levels, providing training according to needs, helping teachers grow and improve rapidly, and effectively promoting the professional development of teachers, "said Li Ruyi.

One school, one product, characteristic education "letting a hundred flowers bloom"

On September 3rd, in the National Defense Education Room of Hongguang Primary School in Yingshan County, under the guidance of the teacher, students delved into the knowledge of weapons and equipment.

As a national defense education demonstration school, we rely on the 'one room, one wall, one corridor' to create a defense education battlefield and create a strong atmosphere for defense education, "said Wang Dong, principal of Hongguang Primary School." One room "refers to the defense education room, which displays various equipment models and defense education books for students to visit and read; The 'one wall' is the cultural wall of campus national defense education, conveying the concept of national defense education; The 'One Corridor' is a national defense education corridor that comprehensively introduces the content, forms, and other aspects of national defense education.

We have also developed school-based courses for national defense education, compiled the 'National Defense Education Learning Reader', and regularly carry out national defense education activities, "said Wang Dong. Three retired non commissioned officers from the school are responsible for national defense education and teaching work. They not only share their military experience, but also undertake military training tasks and organize shooting club activities.

To enhance the effectiveness of national defense education, we have trained professional national defense education teachers who use new technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence to enable students to receive national defense education unconsciously through fun learning, "Wang Dong added.

It is reported that Hongguang Primary School is not only a national defense education demonstration school, but also awarded the titles of "National Youth Campus Football Characteristic School", "Sichuan Province Ethnic Unity and Progress Demonstration School", and "Sichuan Province Chess Characteristic School".

The relevant person in charge of the Education and Sports Bureau of Yingshan County introduced that schools in the county have developed school-based courses according to their own actual conditions, and have achieved fruitful results in characteristic education. Yunfeng Experimental Primary School focuses on cultivating students' diverse arts and has been named "Sichuan Province Art Education Characteristic School" by the Provincial Department of Education. At the same time, due to the significant achievements of classroom teaching reform, it has been awarded the title of "Bashu Classroom Reform Demonstration School" by the Sichuan Tao Xingzhi Research Association; The chess and calligraphy education at Xiaoshui Primary School is unique among rural schools and has become the "Yingshan County Chess Association Education and Training Base" and "Yingshan County Calligraphers Association Education and Training Base"; Huayu Middle School has been established as a "National Demonstration Base for Youth Civilization and Etiquette Education" by the Office of the China Care for Growth Action Organization Committee

The school has its own characteristics and highlights. The differentiated development of characteristic education meets the interests and needs of students of different age groups, achieving the goal of diversified and diversified characteristic education, "said the relevant person in charge of the County Education and Sports Bureau.

Targeted assistance and balanced education benefit urban and rural students

On the morning of September 4th, Wang Lianlian, a teacher from Huayu Middle School in Yingshan County, arrived at Huilong Town early to start the new semester's teaching support work. Teaching as a volunteer is both fresh and challenging. Students from urban and rural areas have different experiences, which puts higher demands on classroom rhythm control and teaching method selection. Wang Lianlian said that this experience has enriched her teaching methods and made her more confident in dealing with various problems.

Wang Lianlian is a master's student introduced through talent introduction in Yingshan County in 2023. She has now become a member of the Yingshan County Junior High School Chinese Language Teacher Studio, County Famous Class Teacher Studio, and Yingshan County Curriculum Reform Studio. At the beginning of this year, she learned that there was a shortage of seventh grade teachers in Huilong Town. As a teacher from a targeted assistance school, she volunteered to undertake the teaching task.

Wang Lianlian's volunteer teaching work is a microcosm of the radiation of high-quality educational resources from the county town to township schools. The relevant person in charge of Yingshan County Education and Sports Bureau stated that the county's scarce subject gradient volunteer teaching activities have effectively increased support for weak schools and weak subjects in rural areas, alleviated the structural shortage problem of the teacher team, and enabled every student to enjoy high-quality educational resources fairly.

The relevant person in charge of the Education and Sports Bureau of Yingshan County introduced that this year, a total of 69 county school teachers were selected to teach in township schools, covering subjects such as music, art, and information technology. On the basis of completing the teaching tasks of the original school, volunteer teachers shall conduct at least 4 teaching hours at the assisted school on a fixed day per week, and provide guidance and training for the teachers of the assisted school.

If teacher support teaching is to fill the shortage of subject teachers and make up for resource gaps in township schools, then the development of the Yingshan County Compulsory Education School Alliance is an effective measure to accelerate the integration of urban and rural education by gathering high-quality resources, and further promote the balanced development of education.

This year is the second year of the pilot work for the development of school alliances in compulsory education throughout the county, "said Leng Wenzhou, head of the Education Department of the County Education and Sports Bureau. The pilot will form a county-level inter school development alliance based on the" 2+2+N "model (2 county-level prestigious schools+2 urban schools+N rural schools) with a three-year cycle to carry out alliance education.

Hope Middle School and Jinhua Hope Primary School have brought us advanced school management methods, efficient teacher development strategies, and high-quality educational resources. They have also guided us in conducting educational research, built an integrated system of education quality and assessment, and formed a good atmosphere of 'mutual assistance in business, complementary advantages, and mutual promotion in management', effectively improving the teaching level of the school. "Li Songlin, the principal of Muding Primary School, said that the assistance provided by Leading School has provided a model for the development of the school and solved the development problems for many years.

It is reported that currently Yingshan County has established 9 inter school development alliances led by Yunfeng Primary School, Huayu Middle School, and other schools, bringing together 45 schools including Chengbei Experimental School, Chengguan Middle School, and Muding Primary School. Through joint research and development in education management, teaching research, teacher training, cultural construction, and mechanism innovation, schools within the alliance have improved the mechanism for expanding high-quality educational resources, enhanced the quality of regional education and teaching, and assisted in the balanced development of urban and rural education.

We vigorously implement the 'Four Early Projects' and' Five Major Actions', launch the 'Network Chain Sharing Plan', rely on the 'Three Talents Project' and 'National and Provincial Training' to help teachers grow, actively explore the application scenarios of 'artificial intelligence+education', respond to the public's expectations for high-quality educational resources with practical measures, and promote the education industry in the whole county to a new level, "said He Jidong, Director of the Education and Sports Bureau of Yingshan County. (Guo Ming, Wu Yuan)