Labor education is one of the main contents for the comprehensive development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor skills. It is an important part of the socialist education system with Chinese characteristics. According to the "On Strengthening Labor Education in Primary and Secondary Schools" recently issued by the Ministry of Education and other departments "Opinions" document spirit, with the care and support of the Municipal Education and Sports Bureau and the party committee and government of the office, labor courses have been included as an important part of the school's undergraduate research and teaching reform, and the "small farmer" pastoral courses have been used as the carrier to conscientiously implement labor education. The summary is as follows:
1. Establish a "Little Farmer" Pastoral Curriculum Development Group, with Principal Guo Yu as the leader, Yu Caixia, Chang Jing, Wang Ren, Guo Chunjie, and Han Feng as members, and formulate a management system, Implement the plan and course evaluation details, clarify the time points for the start and completion of the course, and summarize the gains and losses of the course after the end of the course to prepare for further promotion of the course.
2. Make good curriculum planning
Based on the actual situation of the school and around the school "let rural children become the best version of themselves" The school's educational philosophy makes full use of the school's existing natural resources and teacher resources to plan the "small farmer" pastoral curriculum. First, a "Little Farmer" Pastoral Curriculum Development Leading Group was formed to clarify the curriculum objectives and development basis, and identify a team of teachers who would participate in the compilation of Pastoral Curriculum textbooks and curriculum implementation. Secondly, according to the actual situation of the school, a "three gardens, one room, and one room" pastoral course practice base is designed. Finally, a detailed curriculum development and evaluation plan, as well as the corresponding management system and required financial support, are formulated to ensure that the curriculum is implemented as planned, achieves results, and implements labor education.
3. Determine the course goals
The goals of the "Little Farmer" pastoral course focus on three dimensions: First, shape labor concepts, allowing students to understand that a happy life is created by labor; the second is to master labor knowledge and skills, allowing students to understand the planting techniques of local common crops, flowers, plants and trees, the study of solar terms, and pastoral-related poems, works of art, etc.; the third is to cultivate Develop labor habits and qualities, so that students can learn to love labor and develop habits and labor qualities through labor practice.
4. Utilize the school’s existing resources to build a “three gardens, one garden, and one room” pastoral education labor practice base to provide a practice site for “small farmer” pastoral courses.
"Baicao Garden" is the practice base of the "Little Farmer" pastoral course. In the early campus planning, the school transformed the green space to the west of the playground into 400 square meters of cultivated land for Teachers and students plant fruits and vegetables. Fields are assigned to classes, responsibilities are assigned to groups, and crop rotation is used for planting, allowing students to experience the labor wisdom of spring planting, summer harvest, autumn plowing, and winter storage in labor practice.
"Paiguoyuan" was originally a green belt in front of the campus teaching building, and the vegetation was relatively common. Taking advantage of the Arbor Day, students voluntarily donated fruit trees for planting. In the garden, peaches, plums, and apricots bloom in spring; persimmons and pears are fragrant in autumn; cherries, pomegranates, red dates, etc. are also dotted with greenery in the garden. The garden is also used for students to prune branches, remove insects, and pick trees, demonstrating its function as a carrier of labor education.
The "Hundred Garden" was originally the garden of the kindergarten affiliated to the school. It was later changed to plant paper kites. About three weeks after the start of school in the spring, the paper kites bloomed. The purple flowers attract bees and butterflies, filling the garden with fragrance. Students use the Baiyuan Garden to learn flower and plant planting, learn flower and plant poetry, and integrate labor education with flower and plant planting.
The beauty of "Avenue of Stars" lies in the tulip trees on both sides of the road. In spring, the tulip trees sprout and become emerald green and slender; in summer, the ground is covered with green shade, attracting the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers; in autumn, the ground is covered with fallen flowers, red and green. Lantern-like fruits hang all over the branches; in winter, the branches of jade trees are covered with pink makeup and jade. In autumn, students used the leaves of Luan trees to make leaf paintings. Each exquisite art work showed the students' labor wisdom. Luan tree is a home for birds. Many birds such as turtledoves and magpies spend the night in the tree every night. Students who come early in the morning can hear the beautiful birdsong. In order to cultivate students' love for birds, the school mobilized students to make bird's nests and place them on the Luan trees to give birds that come to the school to spend the night a new home. Leaf painting and bird's nest making are two labor courses that students like very much, allowing students to understand that labor can make nature more beautiful.
"Labor Classroom", the labor classroom is also the school's art classroom. There are scissors, card paper, glue and other tools commonly used in labor classes.
In the labor classroom, students can make leaf paintings, illustration designs, make bird's nests, gourd paintings, etc., and can also store students' labor results and works. It is the main place for the creation and display of labor education achievements.
The "Three Gardens, One Room, One Room" practice base covers different labor scenarios such as vegetable planting, flower cultivation, fruit tree cultivation, art creation, object design and production, etc., and is closely arranged in the teaching building , complex buildings, playgrounds and other buildings have become an important component of the school's pastoral culture, creating a general context of labor production and life, and naturally derived a new form of labor education.
5. Develop “small farmer” pastoral courses and create a new style of labor education
“Small farmer” pastoral courses Based on the actual situation of the school, it can not only reflect the school's purpose of running the school, the special needs of the students and the school's resource advantages, but also be closely integrated with the national curriculum and local curriculum. It is a new style of labor curriculum. The framework of the course mainly consists of the following five parts: "Planting of Common Crops", "Cultivation of Common Fruit Trees", "Cultivation of Common Flowers and Plants", "Harvest Festival", "Study of Solar Terms", and "Pastoral Poetry". Through this course, students can understand the climate characteristics and crop planting conditions of their hometown, and build a love for their hometown; cultivate students' research awareness, observation and inquiry abilities, and lay a solid foundation for students' lifelong learning, lifelong development, and sustainable development; cultivate students in labor education Students understand that food is hard to come by, cherish food, love labor, and have good qualities of diligence and thrift.
6. Infiltrate the labor education of the "small farmer" pastoral course into various subjects
The school has formulated the following With "Pastoral Education" as the core concept of the development plan, "Pastoral Curriculum" infiltrates labor education into various subjects, combining the teaching of Chinese, mathematics, art, science and other subjects, where students work, observe, study, measure, sketch, Appreciation. For example, in Chinese courses, observation and writing related to pastoral courses are arranged; in mathematics courses, students are asked to go to the herb garden to measure vegetable plots and use mathematical knowledge to auction at auctions; in art classes, hand-made leaf paintings are made. Integration of disciplines is the main feature of pastoral specialty courses, which focus all disciplines here.
7. Establish an evaluation mechanism for the “Small Farmer” pastoral labor course
The “Small Farmer” pastoral labor course will adopt Evaluation is carried out in two ways: student and teacher evaluation, and course outcome evaluation is integrated into teacher evaluation. Students use star rating as the main form of evaluation. The main content of teacher evaluation includes activity plans, activity preparation, activity process, activity organization and management, activity records, activity summary, activity results, etc. Each teacher is required to complete a complete case at the end of the semester, participate in the compilation of the "Little Farmer" school-based teaching materials, and present lesson examples, and recommend municipal school-based courses or comprehensive practical activity selections for excellent pastoral courses.
8. Create a pastoral campus culture
With the implementation of the "Little Farmer" pastoral curriculum, a campus with a pastoral style Culture gradually takes shape. In addition to the soft culture of the pastoral school-based curriculum, the hardware facilities are also designed in a pastoral style. The teaching building has completed the floor cultural construction with the theme of "Pastoral", making every landscape full of pastoral atmosphere. The school wall is composed of several major sections such as "Spring Plowing and Autumn Harvest Garden", "Practice Display Column", "Harvest Gallery", "Science Garden" and "Pastoral Book Gallery", which display the students' records and harvest results during the planting process. "Pastoral Poems" and "Pastoral Scenery" are arranged on the walls of the teaching building. "Happy Smiling Faces", "Pastoral Works" and "Integrity Bookshelf" are distributed in the corridors. The entire campus has a green area of ??50%, with shade trees, flowers all year round, and a wide variety of vegetables and fruits, giving it a pastoral atmosphere.
9. Curriculum Effectiveness
The "Little Farmer" Pastoral Course demonstrates the entire process of labor education and builds a "Pastoral Curriculum" "The new style of labor creates a stylish labor field, forms a grand narrative labor situation, promotes the spirit of labor, cultivates a firm will and belief in labor, and has the effect of "labor" educating people. The ultimate topic discussed in the "Little Farmer" pastoral course is value-oriented, focusing on the value and significance of labor to life, society, and the world.
During the land reclamation and farming, the students experienced the hard work of the working people and the hard-earned food; after the charity sale of agricultural products, the children used the "first pot of gold in life" to express gratitude to the elderly in the nursing home; on Mother's Day, "the campus flowers bloomed, and we "Pick for my mother", using the flowers I planted to express my gratitude to my mother; when I graduated, I picked flowers from the herb garden, learned flower arrangement skills, and expressed my gratitude to my teachers with handfuls of carefully matched gorgeous bouquets.
Only with a sense of feedback and gratitude can labor education illuminate students’ lives. The pastoral course of "Little Farmer" brings a new model to the implementation of labor education in schools. It brings students a lifelong rural sentiment and simple labor quality, and it also allows students to rely on their own hands to create beautiful things. The raw ability to live. This kind of labor character and original ability is the foundation for the implementation of the country's core competencies. It is a rooted education. It is the perfect interpretation of the comprehensive development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor, and shows the diverse trends of labor education in the new era.