Original title: Zhengzhou Middle School paved a "growth path" for students and built a "talent ladder"
Worker's Daily - Yu Jiaxi, reporter of China Industrial Network, Ge Huijun, correspondent
This year, 16 students were admitted to the undergraduate, master, and junior class of Xi'an Jiaotong University, and the number of students admitted has ranked first in the country. Thanks to the talent training mode innovation project, Zhengzhou Middle School, located in Zhengzhou High tech Zone, has now become the "excellent student source base of Xi'an Jiaotong University for junior classes" and "excellent student source base of Xi'an Jiaotong University".
Not only that, over 20 years after its establishment, Zhengzhou Middle School has sent nearly 1200 outstanding talents to famous universities in China, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, and so on. The honors of Henan Civilized Unit, Henan Model High School, International Diploma World School, Zhengzhou International Education Characteristic School and so on continue. All of this is inseparable from the joint watering of various educational mechanisms such as personalized education, quality education and international education.
"A good school can awaken the hope and strength of students' self-development and transformation." Talking about the development of the school over the years, Gao Zhengqi, secretary of the Party Committee of Zhengzhou Middle School, said, "The school should pay attention to the growth of every student. Our goal is to create an education suitable for the development of every student, so that every student has ideas, dare to create, can act, and their potential has been developed."
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"Here, the school provides us with a broad stage to cultivate our interests and develop our strengths, and I have also found my own goal." Li Jingwen, a student of Class 1, Grade 2 of the "Chinese Science Experimental Class" in Zhengzhou Middle School, ignited her love for life science when she entered the school two years ago, and took the Biology Department of Zhejiang University as her goal for further study. Under the guidance of her teachers, She not only completed the basic courses, but also combined theory with practice to cultivate solid life science literacy through projects such as red wine production and mushroom cultivation.
Li Jingwen's "Chinese Science Experimental Class" is an innovative initiative of Zhengzhou Middle School to train future science and technology leaders. This training mode is characterized by small class teaching, leading by famous teachers, double tutor responsibility system, etc. It comprehensively promotes the improvement of students' core literacy by integrating national curriculum and setting characteristic school-based curriculum.
In addition to the "Chinese Science Experimental Class", Zhengzhou Middle School has also set up an experimental class on cyberspace security to support the cultivation of new quality and new domain talents in the military and attract special talents in the field of cyberspace security in advance. The school also has top-notch innovative talent programs such as Talent Plan and Summit Plan to provide students with diversified training modes.
"Every student is a seed with unlimited potential. As long as they are given the right sunshine, rain and dew and soil, they can flourish, which requires us to work hard to create a good educational ecology." Li Lan, the principal of Zhengzhou Middle School, said that the essence of education is to stimulate students, awaken students, respect each student's differences and stimulate their maximum potential, Let children be full of interest and drive in learning, and truly guide and promote students to "shine" in spirit, character, thinking, ability, habits, etc.
Dare to think, dare to do, burst out of vitality, Zhengzhou middle school characteristics of educational achievements continue to emerge. According to statistics, in recent years, the school's students have won 24 national awards, 32 provincial awards and 45 municipal awards in various youth science and technology innovation competitions at all levels. The school has successively won the honorary titles of "Henan Primary and Secondary School Artificial Intelligence Education Experimental School", "Henan Informatics Competition Excellent School", "National Youth Information Literacy Competition Excellent Organization Award", etc.
The three-level three-dimensional curriculum system has yielded fruitful results
"At school, every Friday is the day I look forward to. The school provides a variety of community courses, such as Red Song Contest, Debate Contest, etc., which not only enrich our campus life, but also enhance the cohesion of the class." Chao Yue, a student of Class 1 of Senior Two Middle School, loves community activities, and was recently attracted by the school's new community project on national security, She plans to join the society to further broaden her academic vision.
While bravely undertaking the mission of educating people, Zhengzhou Middle School has always been committed to combining quality-oriented education with higher education, constantly using the theory of multiple intelligences and the theory of successful education to guide educational practice, maintaining the "true color" of true education, strengthening the "background color" of true education, and forming the "characteristics" of excellent schools, so that students can show their own personality and expertise while developing comprehensively. For this reason, the senior high school of the school has constructed a three-level three-dimensional curriculum system consisting of nearly 60 expansion and practical application courses, and formed an efficient classroom teaching model with "problem exploration, training and expansion" as the core.
In order to further promote the intelligent education of digital transformation enabling schools, Zhengzhou Middle School has equipped each student with a tablet computer since 2020, and used the auxiliary code course system to conduct accurate collection and intelligent analysis of classroom, homework, examination and other data, ensuring the quality of each teacher's teaching. Adopt the inductive, cooperative and project driven teaching methods to build a classroom environment that can cultivate high-level thinking ability and promote students' in-depth learning.
It is worth mentioning that the system has also formed a personalized "knowledge tree" according to the characteristics of each student. Based on the concept of "more courses, more platforms and more talents", the system has customized private courses for students through big data analysis. Through the "cloud class" approach, we have achieved efficient teaching based on "experience+data", providing each child with the most suitable education path, so that they can make continuous progress on their own learning path.
From the entrance to the exit, from the starting point to see progress. Since 2012, Zhengzhou has implemented value-added evaluation in 56 schools in the city's senior high schools. In this evaluation, from 2016 to 2023, Zhengzhou Middle School is among the top provincial demonstration high schools in the city for eight consecutive years.
Take "Cultivating Chinese People in the World" as Our Own Responsibility
A beautiful campus is the home for children to grow up. Entering Zhengzhou Middle School, the eight characters "Cultivate Chinese People in the World" on the wall of the clock tower are very striking, reminding students to establish an open life pattern.
"For whom, what and how to train people are the primary issues that schools must consider and solve." Gao Zhengqi believes that international education must adhere to the leadership of the Party, adhere to the socialist school running direction, adhere to the "moral cultivation", educate people for the Party and the country, and cultivate top-notch innovative talents with profound Chinese culture and broad international vision.
In 2005, Zhengzhou Middle School set up the International Department to carry out education reform experiments. In 2008, the school took the lead in introducing the PGA high school international curriculum project with the United States as the main direction of studying abroad in the province. At present, the school's international curriculum projects include the International Baccalaureate Middle School Project (IBMYP), the Singapore Government Scholarship Project, the Chinese Foreign Exchange Project, the PGA High School International Curriculum Project and the Korean International Student Project. Among them, since the implementation of the PGA High School International Program, nearly 700 graduates have been admitted to the top 100 universities in the United States or the top 100 universities in the world. In the past three years, more than 60% of students have been admitted to the world's top 50 first-class universities.
"We will adhere to the local foundation, seek a vision of the world. On the road of education oriented to modernization, the world and the future, we will take the responsibility of 'cultivating Chinese people in the world' to create a soul oriented education, so that students can achieve comprehensive and personalized harmonious development." Gao Zhengqi said.
