Chenzhou, Hunan Province： Providing every child with a fair and quality education.
A launching ceremony of the theme practice activity in Chenzhou Special Education Center School, Hunan Province, was opened to netizens in the form of live photos, attracting more than 30,000 instantaneous clicks. Compared with the number of 1,407 students enrolled in public special education schools in Chenzhou, the number of hits is more than 30,000, which reflects the high attention of special education in Chenzhou.
Pay special attention to promoting growth
Five years ago, Chenzhou City put forward the educational development concept of "running every school well, achieving every child and making every family happy". One of the most important ones is "attaching great importance to the development of special education and sincerely supporting the construction of special education schools".
In the past five years, Chenzhou special education has formed an overall school scale of 8 public schools, 1 attached special education class, 2 private special education institutions, 1,407 public students and 248 in-service teachers. In 2015, Chenzhou invested 67.88 million yuan to build a new Chenzhou Special Education Center School in the urban area, which effectively solved the problems of mentally retarded children and adolescents with hearing impairment, visual impairment and other school-age disabilities in the city enjoying preschool education, compulsory education and high school vocational education.
This year, in order to implement the spirit of "running special education well" at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Chenzhou City took "lighting a bright light for underage special children" — — With the theme of "No minor left behind", we will solidly promote the ideological and moral construction of underage special children.
Theme activity promoter
"Light the lamp of patriotism", "Light the lamp of civilization", "Light the lamp of friendship", "Light the lamp of self-improvement", "Light the lamp of harmony" and "Light the lamp of dedication". Throughout 2019, Chenzhou City lit six lamps for the underage special children in the city, with the aim of promoting the all-round development of these special children, helping them to establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values, and laying a good ideological and moral foundation for their all-round development and lifelong development.
A bright light illuminates the way forward for underage special children.
This year coincides with the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China. Taking this opportunity, we will "light the patriotic lamp" with the "red flag handed down from generation to generation and the whole child joining the team ceremony" as the starting point. By organizing students to learn the knowledge of the team flag, team emblem and team ceremony, the city carried out the oath ceremony of the Young Pioneers, carried forward the patriotic spirit, and let the simple feelings of patriotism, love for the party and love for the people take root in their hearts.
"We invited representatives of outstanding league members and young pioneers from Chenzhou No.1 Middle School, Chenzhou No.6 Middle School and the primary school affiliated to Xiangnan College to attend the joining ceremony." Qiu Zhengchun, secretary of the Party branch of Chenzhou Special Education Center School, said that students in these ordinary schools are peers and have physiological differences from special children. Inviting them to tell red stories and sing red songs to underage special children can make these special children feel close.
"Lighting the lamp of civilization" is mainly carried out with the help of the theme class meeting teaching competition, which is in full swing among 8 special education schools in the city.
With the help of teaching competition, Chenzhou city has effectively improved the ability of teachers to cultivate people. At the same time, cultivate students’ traditional virtues such as being civilized, polite, orderly and hygienic, speak civilized words, do civilized things, be civilized people, consciously practice a scientific, healthy and civilized lifestyle, and guide them to be "good teenagers in the new era".
In October, a "charity sale and donation activity of Chinese excellent traditional culture students’ works" was held in the urban area, and the "friendly lamp" was lit. Teenagers from Chenzhou Special Education Center School and Zixing, Yongxing, Jiahe and Rucheng Special Education Schools sold their hand-made paper-cuts and diamond paintings under the guidance of teachers, and donated the proceeds to children in Chenzhou Children’s Welfare Institute and left-behind children in rural areas.
Charity sale+donation, Chenzhou hopes that with this combination, special children can learn to be grateful to their motherland, society and parents, understand the principle of "everyone is for me, and I am for everyone", learn to care for and help others, and keep a good heart.
There are also student life skills competitions that light the lamp of self-improvement, sunshine sports competitions that light the lamp of harmony, and teachers that light the lamp of dedication to send classes to the county, etc., and various forms of activities promote underage special children to be inspired and gain growth in practice.
In addition to "lighting a bright light for underage special children", Chenzhou City also relies on various experiential activities, volunteer actions and other practical activities to launch ideological and moral education practice activities such as "Qingming Festival for Heroes", "Learn from Lei Feng" and "Strive to be the most beautiful teenager" throughout the city, so that more than 1 million primary and secondary school students in Chenzhou can actively practice socialist core values in the activities.
Characteristic curriculum promotes growth.
Walking in the campus of Chenzhou Special Education Center School, in the classrooms and corridors, people can’t help but stop to watch the exquisite paintings, calligraphy and handicrafts posted and displayed. If you don’t see children with sign language, you won’t realize that this is a special education school, and it is difficult to connect these works with students with physical disabilities.
And these works can "come out" thanks to a series of special courses developed by the school that suit the actual situation of students.
In Chenzhou Special Education Center School, there are three teaching departments, namely, the sound-starting department, the sound-starting department and the intelligence-starting department, aiming at students’ three physical disabilities, which are mainly hearing impairment, visual impairment and intellectual impairment. According to the national curriculum standards, we have carefully designed and constructed a scientific and reasonable curriculum system.
The opening part is compulsory education stage, ordinary high school stage and vocational high school stage, and the curriculum is set around "culture leads and skills are good". In the compulsory education stage and ordinary senior high school stage, the training mode based on "culture" and "specialty" is implemented, focusing on cultivating education and cultural courses to lay the foundation for hearing-impaired students to be admitted to universities in the future. In addition to cultural extracurricular activities, the Music Department has also set up various interest groups for extracurricular activities, so that students can have one or two specialties on the basis of learning cultural knowledge well. Focusing on "education" and "rehabilitation", Qiming Department has set up 10 courses, including ideology and morality, Chinese, mathematics, English, Braille, orienteering, comprehensive rehabilitation, music and classical listening and reading. The Department of Enlightenment carries out the curriculum setting around the mode of "teaching students according to their aptitude, tailoring, basic courses+characteristic courses+technical courses+activity courses". At the same time, the school runs moral education through the whole process of education and teaching in the three departments, establishes and improves the moral education network of "community, family and school", improves the moral education mechanism, carries out various moral education activities, and continuously strengthens ideological and moral education for students in education and teaching.
In recent years, the school has actively organized teachers to participate in the training of head teachers and secretary classes of the Youth League Committee, and constantly improved their working ability. Educating people in the curriculum and learning knowledge and skills in the curriculum is not only a "one-family practice" of Chenzhou Special Education Center School, but also the top-level design of Chenzhou City to promote the ideological and moral construction of minors and conscientiously implement the "three-round education". It is understood that the construction of moral education courses and Young Pioneers’ activity courses in primary and secondary schools in the city is being effectively and orderly promoted. At present, the courses of 625 schools in the city have been put in place, and the coverage of students has reached all.
Professional teacher promotion leader
Teachers are the main force to strengthen the ideological and moral construction of minors and implement the fundamental task of cultivating people by virtue. How this team is built has a great influence on whether the ideological and moral construction of minors can achieve practical results. To this end, Chenzhou City issued the "On Printing and Distributing the Construction Plan of Chenzhou Teachers Team 2011— Notice of 2020 "Chenzhou Rural Teacher Support Program (2016— 2020) and other documents, the counties and urban areas and the principals of primary and secondary schools, schools and teachers of primary and secondary schools will sign the responsibility form for the construction of teachers’ morality and style step by step, and implement the responsibilities at all levels to comprehensively promote the further improvement of teachers’ morality.
Taking Chenzhou Special Education Center School as an example, since its establishment, it has always been the key work for the construction of teachers’ morality and style. At present, there are 89 professional teachers in the school, with an average age of 29. How to turn this group of young teachers into a professional and modern double-qualified teacher with both teaching ability and rehabilitation training skills? "Our approach is to combine teachers’ morality with professional ideas, professional knowledge and professional ability, and try our best to build multiple platforms for teachers to promote their rapid growth." Chen Zhiping, principal of Chenzhou Special Education Center School, said.
For new teachers, the school has special pre-service training to "lead the door". Every August, the school organizes new teachers to learn national, provincial and municipal policies, regulations and documents on special education, to enhance teachers’ sense of responsibility and professional identity, and to enhance teachers’ ability to teach according to laws and regulations. In addition, experts and famous teachers from provincial and municipal special education will be hired for professional training.
After "leading into the door", the school conducts political study once a week, which is also an important position for the construction of teachers’ morality and style. In this position, there are not only "two studies and one doing" study and education, but also various theme activities to strengthen teachers’ morality education. It has become normal for this school to incorporate teachers’ morality study activities into continuing education.
At the same time, improving teachers’ professional quality is another important content of the construction of teachers’ team. At the beginning of each school year, the new and old class teachers of Chenzhou Special Education Center School will sign a mentoring contract, while the new teachers and backbone teachers will sign a training contract to adjust the members of the teacher preparation group. At the same time, the school stipulates that every teacher should study at least one special education book every semester and write more than 10,000 words of reading notes and reading experience every year; Every new teacher has at least one lecture class per semester, and old teachers and backbone teachers have one demonstration class per semester; Each teacher needs to attend and evaluate more than 15 classes each semester.
In addition, on-the-job training of "going out" and "please come in" is also an important way to promote teachers’ professional development. Since the recruitment of the first batch of teachers in 2014, the school has sent more than 720 people to 125 places or schools for training and study, with training funds reaching more than 1.3 million yuan. For teachers in key disciplines, teachers in short supply disciplines and teachers in vocational education, the school also sends teachers out for special training. For example, Wei Lulu and Lin Xing went to Chongqing Xiangyang Children’s Center to study the assessment and rehabilitation training of children with cerebral palsy, autistic children and children with emotional disabilities. It is also an effective way of "please come in" training to invite relevant experts, scholars, leading elites and outstanding teachers from brother schools to the school for lectures and exchanges with young teachers.
Activities, courses and teachers, eight special education schools, represented by Chenzhou Special Education Center School, have insisted on all-round "attack" for many years, lighting a bright light for the growth of underage special children in Chenzhou. Their practice is not only a microcosm of Chenzhou’s unremitting efforts in ideological and moral construction of minors for many years, but also an active practice of the concept of "not letting a minor fall behind", "achieving every child" and "providing every child with a fair and quality education".
(Huang Jianfeng)