No.13 Middle School in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province is a provincial-level approved public boarding junior high school directly under the Education Bureau of Pingdingshan City, Henan Province. Founded in 1977, covering an area of 30,000 square meters. In May 2003, it was approved as a "pilot school for restructuring" by the Henan Provincial Department of Education. The scale of the school is 24 classes with three levels and eight regulations, with students 1400. In the practice of running a school, the school spirit of "understanding, honesty, virtue, erudition, unity, humility, harmony, democracy, pioneering, enterprising, pragmatic and efficient" and "studious, thoughtful, realistic and innovative" have been formed with the goal of "modernization, high quality and distinctive features".
School staff 125, including 8 graduate students and above, 54 undergraduate students, and the academic attainment rate 100%. There are 39 senior teachers, 38 first-class teachers, 52 high-quality teachers at or above the municipal level, 20 award-winning teachers at or above the municipal level and 9 excellent class teachers at or above the municipal level. Due to their earnest and down-to-earth work, high starting point orientation and high standard work, all the teaching staff have made amazing achievements, and have successively won the titles of "provincial advanced health unit", "municipal civilized unit", "municipal advanced health unit", "municipal educational and scientific research pilot school", "municipal May 1st Labor Award", "municipal civilized school" and "municipal demonstration unit".
With complete facilities, the school is a first-class school in Pingdingshan City, with a modern student canteen and a high-standard student dormitory that can accommodate 1800 people, a multi-functional gymnasium, a standard outdoor track and field, a basketball court, a volleyball court, a library and a reading room, first-class facilities for science, chemistry and biology experiments, and standardized management, and was rated as a "provincial laboratory construction demonstration school". The school has also built special classrooms such as geography teaching, labor technology teaching, music teaching, art teaching, teaching demonstration meteorological monitoring station, biology teaching garden, etc., which has created conditions and accumulated experience for extensively developing the second classroom and comprehensively promoting quality education.
By raising awareness, increasing investment and speeding up construction, the information infrastructure of our school has made breakthrough progress. Our school has four multimedia classrooms and two computer classrooms, and has built a modern gigabit campus network, established its own resource server, video-on-demand server and information distribution system, and implemented paperless office. All offices are equipped with computers, and a computer for teachers can reach the level of 2 ~ 3 people. All the offices and classrooms in the school have network interfaces, which can easily access the campus network to access the teaching resource database, electronic library, video-on-demand system and the Internet. The school also has an intelligent broadcasting system. It provides a broader way for teachers' multi-channel teaching and students' all-round learning.
Teachers' modern educational technology training has achieved remarkable results. Teachers and educational administrators in our school have the basic skills of using modern information technology and the basic ability of using information technology to carry out education, teaching and management. A stable team of professional teachers who can meet the teaching needs of information technology courses has been established. Form a backbone team capable of maintaining and managing educational information technology facilities and developing educational information resources. The construction of educational software resources began to take shape. Multimedia-assisted teaching has been basically popularized in the whole school, and teaching under the network environment has also entered a higher level of exploration. The application level of information technology in education and teaching has improved rapidly. The development and integration of educational information resources with media materials and online courses as the main contents provide teachers with all kinds of auxiliary materials, excellent teaching plans, multimedia teaching courseware and basic materials for making courseware, and at the same time effectively promote the transformation of educational concepts. According to the information construction plan of our school, in 2006, our school will equip each teacher with a notebook computer, and all 24 classes will be equipped with multimedia teaching equipment. The informatization construction will take a new step, which will play a more active role in promoting the improvement of school education and teaching level.