Warm greeting cards and parent-teacher conferences

I received a greeting card from Yucai Middle School this afternoon, which was thickly filled with words of blessing. ...

Count, signature * * * There are 12 signatures, starting from the principal!

I was very excited to show it to my colleagues and won a lot of praise:

"How many students do they have?"

"A thousand or so!"

"This principal has to sign more than a thousand names, and that teacher has to sign hundreds!"

"How thoughtful!"

Diary of a student's mother from Yucai Middle School.

This is another warm-hearted measure for Yucai Middle School to strengthen the relationship between home and school and serve parents. They even think: "greeting cards are sent to work, not home, because only mom and dad read them at home;" Don't send it to dad, because dad usually puts it in the drawer at a glance; Sent to my mother's unit, my mother will definitely show it to my colleagues. " In this way, after satisfying the vanity of human nature, parents are moved by the concern of the school and their hearts are warm.

"Many parents have plastic-sealed the greeting cards we sent in the past three years as a permanent memorial." Zhong Yan, headmaster of Yucai Middle School, said proudly.

In order to reassure parents to put their children in Yucai, Gao also pondered many service "ideas" that people seem ordinary but Yucai Middle School 10 has been insisting on for years:

During the winter and summer vacations, every class teacher should call every student to ask about the holiday arrangement, performance at home and the completion of homework. Call again before the start of school to remind you of the start time and precautions. Every teacher should call 10 students at least once to answer the difficult questions of related courses and give encouragement and care.

—— Every student holds three parent-teacher conferences in three years, and at least one parent-teacher conference in batches each semester. Generally, the parents of students with similar academic achievements or similar problems are in the same batch, and the number is controlled at around 10. First, we can discuss the same problem, save parents' time and avoid listening. Second, it can be fully discussed with teachers in all subjects. If there is a parent-teacher meeting in the evening, the school will prepare a snack for each parent.

-The class teacher shall make at least one full-time home visit every academic year, and the classroom teachers shall make key home visits. Draw up the outline of home visit before home visit, get in touch with parents in advance, respect parents' time as much as possible, and don't hinder parents' normal work and life because of home visit; Abide by the discipline of home visits, pay attention to etiquette and appearance, speak concisely, focus on analyzing the problems existing in students and put forward solutions and matters that parents should cooperate with; After the home visit, summarize it in time and complete the detailed home visit report.

The school has prepared a raincoat for each student. When students celebrate their birthdays, the class teacher personally sends birthday wishes and a bowl of noodles to the students. When students are sick at home, the class teacher calls to greet them once a day, and those who are hospitalized are led by the class Committee or visited with the teacher. If necessary, other students or teachers can go to the hospital to make up lessons for them.

"Running a school is also a product. Intention and inattention are completely different! " Parents' heartfelt feelings should also conscientiously complete the "homework" assigned by the school.

Careful parental homework

Before each new student enters school, Gaohui will hold a parent-teacher meeting for parents alone. In the meeting place, facing hundreds of parents, Gao has always been a one-man show, talking for more than three hours, and constantly making demands to parents, but parents are obedient to him. The whole venue, in addition to Gao Yan's passionate speech, only the rustle of parents burying their heads in taking notes.

"These requirements are specific and practical, and they are very important for children's growth in the next three years. This homework should be done well. " Many parents not only digest and absorb President Gao's requirements themselves, but also convey them to each other between husband and wife and friends. Some parents even said excitedly, "If I had listened to President Gao's speech a few years earlier, I might have become a qualified parent a few years earlier."

Gao has arranged a lot of homework for these parents, even the parents' bookcases are within the scope of homework. He asked parents to take the time to check their bookcases to see what books were in them. Which books are suitable for children and which books should be "invited". Parents should also have a screening of their friends, and those who will have a positive impact on their children can let them have more contact; Those who will have a negative influence on children should try to avoid contact with them.

He also asked parents to achieve "four at least": read at least a few children's favorite books, know at least a few children's favorite stars, watch at least a few popular TV dramas among teenagers, and know at least one or two children's favorite sports. In my opinion, why many parents and children don't communicate is because they can't communicate with each other. Children's favorite parents don't know that parents appreciate uninterested children, and there is no bridge between the two generations. Parents will only say, "You should study hard." Children can only cope with "oh oh". When children reach puberty, they feel rebellious. If parents can't understand their children and have no connotation, how can they make them obey you?

In an open society, it is impossible to have a closed school education. Children's education has never been a school matter. Schools should really learn how to deal with parents. Behind a successful child, there should be half of the schools and half of the parents in the "military medal". When the school and parents really stand together, their hearts are twisted into a rope, and they work hard in one place, how can the child be unhappy, unhappy and unsuccessful?

Let the child's heart be filled with upward hope.

Yucai Middle School students attend 20 10 British sister school summer camp.

Carry out everything and stick to it every day.

In the past, students and even parents of other schools in Hangzhou once thought Yucai Middle School was a "devil school" because the school had high standards and strict requirements for students' behavior habits. For example, boys should have a flat head, and girls should not tie their hair, braid their hair or make ornaments; Carrying schoolbags on both shoulders outside the school, putting an end to groups of three or five, and hooking up; Don't eat while walking; Don't bring things unrelated to study into the classroom, and talk less about things unrelated to study.

In Gao Yan's mind, he set a set of growth standards for every student studying in Yucai: extensive knowledge, tenacious will, strong physique, outstanding ability, correct character and lofty belief. "We don't expect every child to grow into an industry elite, but we hope that at the most critical stage of their growth, because of us, we will plant success factors in their hearts."

"These' factors' are behavior habits and study habits. In Yucai Middle School, all students will say this sentence: behavior forms habits, habits form quality, and quality determines fate. " Gao believes that ethos is the foundation of establishing a school, and Yucai Middle School is to build a healthy school, so they don't talk about the truth, mainly from four small places to talk about students' behavior habits, "making students look like students."

However, it is easier said than done to realize these "rules and regulations" which seem to be similar to the code of conduct for primary and secondary school students, and it is even harder to adhere to them. Therefore, Yucai School takes "implementing everything and persisting in every day" as its motto.

"The principal can give everything he asks to every link; Whether this can be done every day from the day students enter school to the last day before graduating from junior high school is the key to the success of the school. " In order to make students obey these rules, teachers should set an example. For example, in school, Gao took the lead in cutting a flat head, and other male teachers were "starting from scratch".

Someone once asked Gao, what are the characteristics of teaching in Yucai Middle School? He said frankly, "We just take cultivating students' good study habits as the top priority." Therefore, the school has formulated a six-step learning method for students, which is "preview and implement, listen carefully, work independently, correct mistakes in time, be honest in exams, think more and ask more questions".

For the implementation of preview, every student has a preview book for each subject, and the teacher should check it every day and analyze, classify and summarize the inspection situation every month. Teachers put forward different educational requirements according to each student's situation, and form written materials to report to the principal's office. In addition to the usual random inspection, the principal holds a monthly teacher research exchange meeting at different levels and categories, summarizes the preview of each subject and grade, and puts forward the rectification requirements and the next step.

As for "working independently", Gao believes that a smart mind is tempered in countless bumps. Therefore, we ask all students to establish the concept of copying homework shamefully. "Encounter problems, really can't. Even if it is empty, don't copy it or use discussion methods in disguise. "

With the continuous implementation and improvement of students' requirements for school behavior habits and study habits, Yucai Middle School has gradually formed a serious, diligent and studious style of study. With a sigh, Gao said, "Now new educational concepts and new educational methods are emerging one after another, but why can't you learn this and that?" Why? Because methods and ideas can be copied, but execution can't be taken away. The magic weapon of our school is' everything is implemented and persisted every day'. "

Emancipating outstanding students program

"In Yucai Middle School, students with excellent grades and strong self-consciousness don't have to do their homework, and students with particularly good grades don't even have to attend classes ..." In 2007, when Yucai Middle School just launched the "Liberation of Excellent Students Plan", it not only became a hot topic for Yucai Middle School students, but also attracted great attention from parents.

Three years later, when the reporter visited Yucai Middle School, he still met students who enjoyed this "treatment" from time to time. "Some students in our class have good grades, and English and science are homework-free. You don't have to do simple English questions. " Jiang Tianyi of Class Kloc-0, Grade Three, is a representative of English class. After he was exempted from homework, he used his spare time to develop his hobbies.

It is reported that the "plan to liberate outstanding students" launched by Yucai Middle School includes six parts: (1) appropriately accelerating the teaching progress of all subjects in the school; Classroom teaching should be divided into groups and levels; Set aside 15 minutes in each class for outstanding students to arrange independently; For outstanding students, several subjects or single subjects are exempted; Allow outstanding students to "attend classes" in the same grade; Allow talented students to skip classes.

"Taking English as an example, the English group of our school once made a statistic: freshmen who just entered the first grade don't have to attend classes, and at least 50% of the students can get more than 90 points in the final exam of the first grade of last semester. But at the same time, there are many students in weak primary schools, whose English background is very general, and some even know nothing. These students are combined into a class, and the teaching difficulty can be imagined. " Gao said that one of the major defects of the traditional class teaching system is that it is difficult to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. The daily teaching is often designed around students of middle school and below, because they can't keep up with senior high school and speak fast, and students who have spare capacity for study are definitely "hungry". Students with strong self-control will cooperate with teachers, while those with weak self-control will desert in various ways.

As a result, Yucai Middle School launched the "plan to liberate outstanding students". According to Gao, in 2007, when the project was just started, it was vigorously carried out in the first and second grades of senior high school at that time. At that time, 60 students were exempted from homework, some from one course, and some even from three courses. "At that time, Class 6, Grade 2 was the class with the largest number of homework. There are more than 50 students and 23 people have won this honor. " Zhang Lan, then an English teacher and head teacher, was still impressed.

However, the promotion of this plan has been somewhat "declining" in recent years. "For excellent students, not teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is a waste of students' time. Our plan should be said to be good, but many teachers don't look at the problem from the overall perspective, but stick to their own classrooms and don't want students to go out of the classroom. "Gao said that these teachers and parents have the same concerns, fearing that" liberation "will eventually become" relaxation ".They always take it for granted that" it is always harmless for you to listen to the teacher's class and do more homework. "

"Our plan to liberate outstanding students is not to let these children not do their homework or attend classes, but to let them get rid of consumption that is not suitable for their own learning level, so that they have enough time to do all kinds of training that suits them, so as to get a deeper level. Upgrade." In the face of doubts, Gao explained that in school, because the underachievers will directly pull the average score of the class, they will always get more "attention" from the teachers, and those students who are "not enough to eat" may become "vulnerable groups". In the long run, their spirituality may be exhausted.

"More importantly, we can't improve the quality of teaching at the expense of the physical and mental health of teachers and students, and we can't let teachers and parents form the concept that overtime is the way to improve the quality of education and teaching." Gao is worried that the plan to liberate outstanding students, which has been temporarily stranded, will go to the other extreme. Therefore, he said that he would intensify efforts to change the concept of teachers and parents, so that the plan could benefit more students on a larger scale.

Mengxiang education

"Not every student is so lucky to meet a headmaster like you. I am lucky to be one of these few people. I have been away from school 1 for many years. I sincerely say that I miss and am proud of educating people. " After graduating from Class 6 of Yucai Middle School in 2008, he wrote a letter to Gao, the president of his alma mater, telling the emotional story of a Yucai person.

"It's been more than two months since the first year of high school, and I found a familiar figure among that group of junior students. I never knew that boy, but I was caught by his full educational uniform. A month ago, I couldn't help asking,' Why are you wearing a Yucai school uniform?' After all, it's a little hard to understand wearing the school uniform of my alma mater during the new school principal's time. He replied,' Because I miss educating people.' And just a few days ago at the sports meeting, I met him who was still wearing his school uniform. I asked him when to wear it. He said,' wear it until you don't miss it anymore.' "

I believe that this student's feelings for his alma mater will not only be touched by Gao, but also by outsiders. The reason why students are so attached to educating talents is that the school not only gives them learning methods, but also gives them dreams.

A few years later, Gao still remembers the first week of the first batch of 265,438+00 gifted students in 2000. He told the students about his dream: "My own dream is to be the best principal of its kind, and our primary school should be the best school. And you, dear classmates, must be the best among your peers. "

Gao said with a smile, at that time, he also asked students what it takes to be a leader. By beauty? By money? The students all laughed. "By implementation, by persistence, by diligence and by dreams." Ask yourself and answer yourself.

Since then, Yan Zhonghe has been concerned about "dream education": "Let every child be full of dreams and let every child be full of confidence."

"We want to build a dream campus. Theory alone is not enough, and the operational level needs to be continuously improved. " Gao said that with pottery, you must have skills, the campus can be full of dreams, and students can realize and surpass their dreams.

When the reporter interviewed Yucai Middle School, he walked and chatted with President Gao on the playground. Suddenly, screams came from the basketball court. It turned out that a group of little boys were staging a dunk contest. Seeing the headmaster coming, the little boys were even more excited, and fancy movements emerged one after another, and they kept encouraging, "Principal, have one; Principal, deduct one. "

I saw that I threw my hands high, picked up the basketball and made a heavy penalty. Applause! Beautiful!

What's the matter, everyone can dunk? "Our basket is 2.65 meters high, about 40 centimeters lower than the standard basket." Gao Zhong Yan smiled and told the answer, "This is to let students enjoy the feeling of success."

"The standard height of the basket is set by adults, and it is precisely many minors who love basketball. They are eager to dunk, but they can't achieve it, probably for the rest of their lives. Is the standard so sacred and unchangeable? Why does our education always make children out of reach? " In an interview with reporters, Gao said that these children have lived in various standard evaluations formulated by us since birth, and have been evaluated for more than ten years, resulting in many losers. When can I find out the education that children can access?

"Therefore, Yucai Middle School has set up such a special basketball court to reduce the height of the basket, so that most children can have a dunk addiction at the original standard height and have a dunk addiction that can't be seen for a lifetime." Gao also assigned several assignments to the students' teachers: Can colleagues adjust the original evaluation criteria according to the different situations of the students, so that they can taste the seemingly impossible success, such as adapting the Olympic math problems, so that students who fail in mathematics can also touch several problems, and so on. Let's use our brains together to make our educational activities full of vitality, vigor and wisdom.

Inject a belief into the teacher's heart.

The school staff basketball team participated in the National Amateur Basketball Open.

Stick to the "red line" and promise nothing.

This September, the first day of school. Hangzhou Yucai Middle School swung a punch that people called "a strong man broke his wrist": dismissing two backbone teachers who paid for tutoring. According to the reporter, since Yucai Middle School was founded, five teachers have been expelled for paid tutoring.

"Teachers don't do paid tutoring. This is a red line. This is an explanation for the teacher who is working hard, otherwise I can't explain it. " Seriously speaking, this matter is not negotiable. Education is ideal, and school is the purifying agent of social life. Our teachers must remember that children will grow up, and we must have the courage to look students in the eyes and stand the test when children grow up.

For teachers' paid tutoring, Gao has always advocated "killing without forgiveness". Because a lot of "malicious words" about paid tutoring have been published at ordinary times, Gao has caused a lot of controversy. In 2008, he even went to Phoenix TV to argue with others, "Do in-service teachers need legislation to prohibit paid tutoring?" Such a high profile has finally attracted the attention of relevant departments. "This matter needs to be discussed. It's better to keep a low profile. "

However, Gao seems to have a natural hostility to paid tutoring. Recently, he even summed up the basic method of how to see through paid tutoring-in fact, it is easy to judge whether a teacher is a tutor, because one's time and energy are limited. According to the teacher's workflow, as long as he meets the bottom line requirements in any link from preparing lessons, attending classes, tutoring, correcting homework, correcting mistakes, and analyzing exams, first, he has no time and energy to take care of other jobs, so if he is a tutor, the direct and obvious consequence is the decline of his work attitude and the plummeting quality of his teaching.

The only thing that every school can understand but can't express is culture. She is the gene of the school, "one or two genes are better than a ton of education", and the cultural construction of the school is mainly reflected in the values. "Good health is the first value of Yucai Middle School. This determines what kind of atmosphere Yucai will form, what kind of study style, teaching style, and what kind of parental reputation. " Zhong Yan said.

The first thing to bear is that everyone must sign a "six noes" commitment letter with the school when the teacher takes up his post: he will not accept the parents' banquet; Do not accept any form of gift from parents; Do not entrust parents to do private affairs in any form; Do not do paid tutoring; Do not smoke on campus and do not drink alcohol on weekdays; Corporal punishment and disguised corporal punishment are prohibited.

"I can't prove that people who follow me live better than those who leave my life." Although there is "black and white", Gao also has his own helplessness. A dismissed teacher from Yucai Middle School ranked last in the school evaluation. Just because he taught in Yucai Middle School, he recruited 20 students this summer at a price of 2,000 yuan. He taught for 20 days and earned 40 thousand. It's unfair that the teachers who teach seriously in the school live such a chic life!

"Teachers should have ideals and dedication. If you want to make a fortune through education, you'd better leave the teaching staff as soon as possible. " In Gao Yan's sonorous tone, there is a fortitude.

However, it is precisely because there is no room for sand in the eyes that straightforward people are attacked-those whose interests have been damaged, like forming a shady "alliance", hiding in the dark, "stabbing the knife in the back" and overwhelming Gao Yan on the Internet ... But Gao Yan always insists on "opinions."

To Gao's relief, he is not fighting alone. More people of insight bravely stood up and supported him with practical actions:

Liu Xiping, director of Zhejiang Education Department, Yu Donglai, secretary of Gongshu District Party Committee and other leading comrades expressed their support in different ways; Hangzhou 168 special-grade teachers also signed a call for boycotting paid tutoring and calling for the return of teachers' morality; Hangzhou Education Bureau requires party member teachers, school lesson preparation team leaders and outstanding teachers at or above the district level to sign a letter of commitment not to do paid tutoring, and publicize it on the campus networks of schools and the websites of district and county education bureaus, and accept supervision by the masses.

Please make friends with teachers and students in a big way.

Whether we should make friends with students, I believe many teachers still have no definite answer. However, Yucai Middle School believes that junior high school students are more emotional and easily influenced by emotions. Once they don't like a teacher, they won't listen well and even hate learning this course. Therefore, the school has been asking teachers and students to make friends with great fanfare, so that students like it and it is best to be worshipped by students. "If this is done, the efficiency of students' class, the quality of homework and the quality of thinking will certainly achieve satisfactory results. "

A recent survey by Tencent Campus Channel also provided "evidence"-the perfect teacher standard in the minds of post-90s generation, which is different from the standards of other times. For example, the perfect teacher in the minds of "post-70 s" and "post-80 s" should be "knowledgeable and versatile" first. The post-90s generation (10033 participants) ranked "making friends with students and not putting on airs as teachers" as the first standard of perfect teachers.

No matter how perfect the theory is and how rigorous the investigation is, it will always be tested by practice. Let's look at a story of "teachers chasing students" first, and then judge whether teachers should make friends with students.

Now, Zhang Tianxing, who is 19 years old, is a sunny boy, and his height is more than 1 m 8. Five years ago, he was an out-and-out "little grizzly bear". That year, Zhang Tianxing entered Yucai Middle School and was a strong player, but it didn't take long for the primary school to get the best results. As a red man in front of the teacher, he tasted the taste of "loss" for the first time: his grades did not decline; In class, there is no part for him to answer questions; I worked as a class cadre in primary school, but I didn't even become a team leader in middle school.

"Zhang Tianxing, who has always been cheerful, suddenly became silent, bowed his head in class, and was not interested in anything, let alone reading." Zhang Lan, an English teacher, said that once she went to her house, Zhang Tianxing simply hid.

"Would you like to stand guard at the school gate?" "Would you like to run for the flag bearer?" Encouraged by Zhang Lan again and again, Zhang Tianxing stood at the school gate and greeted the headmaster, teachers and the whole school generously. He even became a flag bearer with only four places in the whole school.

However, Zhang Lan was not satisfied, and Zhang Tianhang didn't make any progress in his study. A few weeks later, Zhang Lan hoped that Zhang Tianxing could run with her on the grounds that she was in poor health, wanted to run and exercise, and was too lonely.

Zhang Tianxing readily promised. After school that afternoon, Zhang Lan dragged Zhang Tianxing to run with one of his good friends. Zhang Lan was really weak, panting on the fourth lap. Zhang Tianhang was so proud that he simply ran backwards and let Zhang Lan follow him.

When Zhang Lan was angry, he suddenly spoke to Zhang Tianhang in English. He can't understand! Next to the girlfriends immediately interface. This made him feel a little embarrassed. Several times in a row, Zhang Lan blurted out a few words of English when he was running, and all his girlfriends were connected. Zhang Tianxing worked hard to learn English. Gradually, talking with Zhang Lan, he can cope with it, and he has gradually become friends with the teacher who tells everything. In this way, Zhang Tianxing ran more and more proud. A year later, his English single subject actually entered the top ten of the class.

Do you think teachers should make friends with such students?

The role orientation of modern principals should be reorganized.

When we go to an ordinary school, we will find that regular quality management needs to go through five or six levels: the principal, the vice-principal of teaching, the director of teaching (deputy director), the head of teaching and research, and the head of preparing lessons. Yucai school is to remove all the middle layers, and the principal is the vice president of teaching and the teaching director. Quality management is directly implemented by principals, teaching and research team leaders, lesson preparation team leaders and front-line teachers in parallel. Teaching suggestions don't need to be reported step by step for instructions and research, but are directly listened to, recognized on the spot and implemented immediately in Gao Yan.

"This is to reduce the level of quality management, improve work efficiency, and directly understand the teaching situation of front-line teachers. Under this management method, the most obvious performance is that there are no complicated procedures for the school to do anything. " Gao Shuo reduced all kinds of formal things to a minimum. As long as the teaching suggestions and ideas are considered feasible, there has never been a lengthy discussion about cultivating talents, and they can be put into practice immediately.

When talking about the original intention of not setting up a middle level, Gao bluntly said that this is a "flat management" model he stole from excellent innovative enterprises, with the aim of fully stimulating teachers' potential and making them enthusiastically devote themselves to education.

In 2005, a hot state-owned private school in Hangzhou moved from the west to the north, and there was a vacuum of high-quality private schools in the west of Hangzhou. Gao seized this opportunity and immediately founded Hangzhou Jinxiu Middle School in this area.

At that time, many people who cared about Yucai asked him, "Why not call it Yucai Branch?"

"Indeed, if you enroll students in the name of Yucai Middle School West Branch, you don't need to do a little publicity and mobilization. But what we are considering is that we can't put all our eggs in one basket. Because no one can guarantee that the big tree of Yucai will flourish forever. " For example, Gao said that many people know that Dior is a famous luxury brand, but few people know that it belongs to LV. "If we can build an independent boutique junior high school in different regions, it will mean that we have created another famous brand like Dior, which belongs to LV but is completely independent, and will also establish an emergency early warning mechanism to resolve the crisis for the future development of Yucai, thus creating a road where the East is not bright and the West is bright."

Facts have proved that Gao is a "chess player". In less than five years, Jinxiu Middle School has gained a firm foothold, all the quality indicators have reached or even surpassed Yucai Middle School, and its influence in the west of Hangzhou is gradually surpassing Yucai Middle School due to traffic reasons.

Then, Gao founded the primary school attached to Yucai Middle School and Southeast Middle School successively, and embarked on an extraordinary development road of "moderate scale, multi-point layout, diverse types and coordinated development".

The Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan promulgated this year clearly points out the need to establish a modern school system.

On the road of building a modern school, Yucai Middle School can be said to be ahead. Looking to the future, Gao is full of lofty sentiments. He said that the role of modern principals should also keep pace with the times and reorganize their roles in line with the development of the times. As a modern headmaster, he should not only know education, but also know management, law and management. In short, modern principals should be compound.

Gao has five schools, but on the road to building a modern school, he is still "on the road" ... as he wrote in a poem: "On the road, on the road, on the road, we are surrounded by eager faces; In a hurry, in a hurry, constantly running around, this life is either tired or bitter, but from another angle, it will always yield heavy happiness. "