November 4, the central and provincial and municipal mainstream media collectively visited Nanjing Zhiyuan Foreign Language Primary School , observed the special courses, talked to the principal and teachers, and listened to the voices of students.
Zhiyuan Waixiao, why is it so popular? This is a school full of "creative learning"! During the
interview, the sharing between principal Xie Ying and teachers impressed the reporters. We have excerpted some, and have a sneak peek!
1 We want children to grow up in creation, not create after they grow up.
2 education should not be labeled. The children we train should be complete children, have good qualities and good studies.
3 School is a place to find partners. Teachers create opportunities and platforms to allow children to discover other people's strengths and make progress and growth together.
4 Be with the children, don’t speak loudly, speak well.
5 Zhiyuan's teacher moves forward with his children, allowing the children to desire themselves, agree, trust, equality and quiet.
6 The best place to cultivate children's thinking is the classroom.
, founded in 2001, has won a good reputation among students and parents in 20 years, becoming a well-known brand school in the city, the province and the country, and even shining on the world stage -
On May 27, 2019, at the Sprint Center in Kansas, the United States, the closing ceremony of the Global DI Innovation Thinking Finals, 2,400 participating teams from dozens of countries and 17,000 teenagers, waiting for the final results together. Nanjing Zhiyuan Foreign Language Primary School, a Chinese team held high the five-star red flag and climbed to the podium, enjoying the cheers and tributes of the audience. This is their 7th time to be on the stage of the global competition and won the championship for the third time.
"Creativity" has always been the theme word for Zhiyuan primary school education reform. What kind of educational soil does children need to develop creative hair? How can children's creativity happen in their learning and life, and even lead themselves to the other side of the future? Let's visit together!
Live hit
Tianlai Orchestra, focusing on
music classroom, the children of Zhiyuanwai Xiao String Orchestra are practicing under the command of Teacher Huang Huang, and the melodious melody is conveyed from the strings to everyone's heart.
reporter learned that in addition to the string orchestra, the school also has a wind band, which has won grand prizes in competitions of various levels many times.
There are hundreds of children studying and growing up in the band. Many people have joined the band since the first grade of elementary school. This love lasts for six years. A fifth-grade boy named Tang Haobo entered the school's string orchestra from the first grade. "I met and fell in love with cello through the school's string orchestra. The teacher took us to classes twice a week. I found my interests and hobbies and persevered."
Vitality Cheerleading , Sunshine upward
In the gymnasium, the children of the cheerleading team are training. Qihang Cheerleading Team is a star club of Zhiyuanwaijia. The school is trained in the year-round echelons. The children have won awards frequently in various competitions across the country, province and city. Not long ago, they just won the first prize in the Jianye District cheerleading competition.
Creative art, drawing Dunhuang "caile well"
In the computer art classroom, Teacher Ma Tian took the children to design the "caile well" in Dunhuang murals.
"In the past, students could only look up at the exquisiteness and beauty of caisson art during visits and travels. Today, in our computer painting class, children learned the design methods and color matching characteristics of traditional Chinese patterns, and created and depicted caisson patterns through painting software." Ma Tian told reporters that there are many series of creative art classes like this, such as the 24 solar terms.
Artificial Intelligence , designing "Robot Owl"
In the artificial intelligence club, Yin Haoyu, fourth-year-old, designed a "Robot Owl" that will not fall. "I found that the owl could only stand there. I wanted it to move, so I added an servo on its leg and a hot wheel to the servo. At the beginning, it was easy to fall, so I added a supporting pillar behind it, and it was very stable."
Creative Life Museum, the world of imagination and creation
walked into the children's creative life museum, and the little tour guides introduced their own creative world. A flower, a grass... Under their design, it turns into decorative paintings with QR codes; colorful clay displays unique foods from all over China...
Here, every child is an artist, and every work embodies their imagination and creation, and every student uses a unique perspective to turn the language he wants to speak into a work.
"Creative Learning", how can four-step advancement
go far? The end is creativity.
Zhiyuanwai Primary School’s “Creative Learning” series of projects research is a school-based practice for children’s high-quality learning and life. It is an effective measure for schools to practice moral education and educate people, and to implement five educations at the same time.
The school's more than 20 years of development history has been stretched forward with the in-depth research on "creative learning", and the research results of "creative learning" have been continuously condensed in practical reflection.
Let’s take a look at the four stages of Zhiyuanwai’s “creative learning”:
1. Brilliant Golden Idea Workshop
Open the first window of creative learning (2003.9-2007.12)
2. "Children's Fingertips" Theme Academy
Expand the new path to creative learning (2008.1-2012.12)
3. "Imagine the Future" new curriculum system
leads creative learning to deepen (2013.1-2017.12)
4. System construction of creative learning and life
From "creative learning" to "creative learning and life" (
These teachers and students are so amazing!
Three-time global champion
Zhiyuan's children have not only experienced creative learning based on the thinking level, but also enjoyed a creative life pointing to character improvement.
In the competition for innovative thinking among primary and secondary school students, known as the "World-Brain Olympics", from 2013 to 2019, the small players of Zhiyuanwai entered the global competition for seven consecutive years, won the global championship three times, and won the Da Vinci Award and Renaissance Award.
In recent years, 120 students in the school have become young academicians of the Chinese Academy of Young Sciences, 80 scientific inventions have been patented, 420 students have won team and individual medals in various national science and technology competitions, and 753 people have won awards at or above the municipal level.
Excellent Teacher Team
In the past three years, the school's independently applied for the National Social Science Fund project "Action Research on School Curriculum Changes to Support Children's Creative Learning" was successfully concluded. The project "Imagine the Future - Practical Construction of Children's Creative Learning Life" won the first prize of Jiangsu Province Basic Education Teaching Achievement Award, and Jiangsu Province's Character Improvement Project ""Creative Life 100" Children's Moral Learning Workshop" was successfully concluded and was rated as a high-quality project. In addition, two provincial projects were successfully concluded, one Jiangsu Province's forward-looking project was under research, three municipal projects (projects) were successfully concluded (projects), and three teaching achievements were awarded the municipal commendation.
Creative culture nourishes an outstanding team of teachers. At present, the school has 21 special-level teachers in Jiangsu Province, 1 famous principal in Nanjing, 5 subject leaders in Nanjing, 10 outstanding young teachers in Nanjing, 55 district-level backbone teachers, and 48% of the total number of teachers in the school. 30 teachers won first prizes in national, provincial and municipal competitions. The school’s four subject groups, including Chinese, mathematics, information and physical education, were respectively rated as “Nanjing Advanced Teaching and Research Group”.
Principal: Embrace tomorrow with creativity and challenges
Zhiyuan Waijiao, is a school and a creative park, where you can always feel the happiness of cognitive learning advancement and creative growth of life.
There is a MENSA corridor on the first floor connected between the teaching buildings. Principal Xie Ying said that this design is intended to remind children that everyone is a noble and elegant life existence, and they should embrace tomorrow with creativity and challenges, and then continue to work hard for the progress of human civilization. "Such value guidance, thinking temperament and future awareness not only let children see their unique background in life, but also let children develop their own imagination and expectations of the future in the time and space of creative learning in school."
Think like a scientist, and children need to have creativity.
Touching the future also requires children to be creative.
Creativity makes Zhiyuan possible; creativity also makes the possibility of continuous Zhiyuan.
Nanjing Morning Post/Love Nanjing Reporter Liu Ying Picture and text
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