Xinmi is a county-level city with relatively developed economy, and its typical economic feature is "storing wealth for the people". This just corresponds to the current situation of education development. In Xinmi, people generally form a kind of * * * knowledge, and high-quality educational resources are mostly concentrated in private schools. Sending children to private schools has become the first choice for local parents.
Private education in Xinmi consists of amateur training education, preschool education and primary and secondary education. According to statistics, there are nearly 40,000 students in 199 private educational institutions approved by the administrative department of education, including 24 ordinary primary and secondary schools with 22,000 students. Preschool education institution 1 18, which undertakes 90% social education responsibility in preschool education stage; 57 amateur training schools.
The reporter learned that as early as 2003, most private primary and secondary schools in the city installed campus networks, voice classrooms and multimedia classrooms, especially Xinghua public schools installed multimedia operating systems in each class, and each teacher was equipped with a laptop computer, which laid a good foundation for the promotion of the new curriculum reform. This surpassed many public schools of the same level at that time.
What highlights the development characteristics of private education is the connotation construction of private schools. Many private schools are at the forefront of education and teaching reform, and exploring new talent training models has been launched in private schools. The reporter learned that some private schools have taken the lead in realizing the transformation from the quantitative management of individual will of private enterprises to democratic decision-making and scientific management, paying more attention to the integration of collective wisdom, so that the team's cooperative spirit has been fully publicized. Xinghua College and Jingmi High School have also changed the way of teachers' evaluation, from the past personal evaluation of teachers to the evaluation of team members. Jingmi High School reformed the educational concept of "intensive cultivation, one by one processing" and put forward the new concept of "special education for special seedlings". In 200 1 year, according to the change of students' flow, the school adjusted its school-running ideas in time, and turned a comprehensive school into a single high school, which found the right direction for the school to achieve leap-forward development.
What private schools really win social recognition is the quality of teaching. The teaching quality of many private schools has been leading all the way, creating the teaching miracle of being the first for many years in a row. According to the information provided by the Municipal Education Bureau, 60% of private schools can become high-quality educational resources in Xinmi education system.
The development of preschool education in Xinmi is a thriving scene. Wang Gaiju, former director of the Social Forces School Management Office of the Municipal Education Bureau, told the reporter that private preschool education has continuously introduced advanced educational concepts at home and abroad, and took the lead in introducing the theory of integrated constructive curriculum before the curriculum reform in primary and secondary schools, realizing a historic change from discipline-based and knowledge-based to paying attention to children's emotions, attitudes, knowledge, abilities and lifelong development elements.
In the development of amateur training schools, with the changes of educational reform, the requirements for talent training mode have gradually evolved from cultural counseling to professional expertise and quality training. More than 70% of the training institutions in this city, relying on the educational model and theoretical basis of professional chain training institutions, are gradually moving towards specialization and standardization. The development of amateur training education makes up for the serious shortage of English education and art education in the development of basic education in Xinmi, and well solves the educational needs of the educated for the development of personal specialties.
Wang Gai once wrote in an experience summary that Xinmi private schools have initially constructed their own educational culture, formed educational characteristics with different styles, and have the ability to make correct school-running level positioning due to resource differences, making it possible for Xinmi private education to meet different educational needs of society.
The Success Password of Leading Education
For a relatively developed area like Xinmi, why is private education so developed? This phenomenon has to arouse our deep thought. A generally accepted view is that private education in Xinmi not only exists as a supplement to public education, but more private schools are positioned to meet people's diversified needs for education at the beginning of their establishment. We find that private schools in many places are still playing the role of picking up the leaks in the cracks. Xinmi private education has begun to take the road of quality education and has the ability to resist setbacks.
In fact, private schools have many natural advantages over public schools. Guo Chunxian, chairman of xinmi city New Century School, said that the flexible employment mechanism of private schools has mobilized the enthusiasm of teachers to the maximum extent; The efficient decision-making of private schools ensures the efficient work.
Guo Chunxian told reporters that at present, private education in Xinmi has completed its primitive accumulation and achieved a win-win situation in terms of scale and quality. She believes that the real driving force for the development of private education in Xinmi comes from within education. A group of professionals with vision, educational ideals and rational understanding of education take the lead in private education and push it in the right direction.
Similarly, a principal of a private school believes that private education in Xinmi is developing independently. They have independent consciousness and are very close to each other. Then they constantly standardize in development, develop in standardization, and gradually enter a virtuous circle. The headmaster told the reporter that many private schools in Xinmi have surpassed public schools at the same level, but some private schools are struggling to develop. These schools are often invested by people who don't understand education. These schools are too eager for quick success and instant benefit, and some practices violate the laws of education.
An important reason for the healthy development of private education in Xinmi is that the city has formed a mature and effective management and operation mechanism from top to bottom. Established in 2002, the Social Forces School Management Office of the former Municipal Education Bureau has done a lot of creative work for the development of local private education. Subsequently, the established trade associations formed an effective management and supervision mechanism in industry self-discipline, industry cooperation and industry supervision.
Based on the information provided by xinmi city Education Bureau, the reporter found that these materials did not just stay on the statistics of figures and superficial experience summary, but often had a series of analytical and constructive views.
There is a passage in a document: At present, the theoretical basis of the administrative measures of the education administrative department for education comes from the management practice of running schools by the government, and all kinds of management rules contain elements that are contrary to the development of private education. Managers who manage general education are too busy or impossible to deeply study the development law of private education, so they use the management method of government-run schools to manage private education stiffly. To some extent, it is easy to breed contradictions in management, and at the same time, it makes private education meet the needs and obliterates the competitive advantage of private schools.
Wang Gaiju believes that the education administrative department should implement separate management of private education. She told the reporter an example: the Municipal Education Bureau asked for the selection of "new three good", that is, being a good child at home, being a good student at school and being a good citizen in society. But this is not suitable for many private schools, because most private schools are boarding schools, and students usually have few opportunities at home. Obviously, private schools should modify or reform this choice.
It is precisely because there is a department in charge of private education in education administration that many problems existing in private schools are discovered in time and solved through discussion and consultation, thus ensuring the healthy development of the whole private education.
Xinmi Civil School Expects "Wolves Effect"
If we consider the private education in Xinmi from a broader perspective, we will find that its development is also "hard". According to an analysis of a survey report by the Education Bureau of this city, Xinmi, as a relatively developed area, lacks high-level and high-quality private education resources and the injection of large capital.
Wang Gaiju told reporters that a lot of private capital hidden in Xinmi has not been invested in the field of education. Judging from the current educational situation, Xinmi must make use of its own economic advantages to develop education. She believes that local governments should actively introduce new preferential policies to attract social funds to invest in education and prevent local funds from flowing out. Everyone else is attracting investment, so we can't watch the money around us go to waste.
In the eyes of educators in Xinmi, the promulgation of "Interim Provisions on Accelerating the Development of Social Forces in Running Schools" by the xinmi city Government in 2002 once caused an upsurge of private capital investment in education. However, due to the failure of some functional departments, the investment of several wealthy businessmen quickly turned to other fields, which made Xinmi private education miss the opportunity to run high-standard and high-grade private schools.
At present, the prosperity of private education in Xinmi is not all good for Zheng Guankun, director of xinmi city Teaching and Research Section. As a manager who was in charge of private education in this city, he believes that the current private schools have formed a harmonious atmosphere, lacking a real sense of competition and enterprising, which has delayed the development of Xinmi education to some extent. "I think Xinmi's private education has become exclusive and there is a hidden crisis of starting a second business." Zheng Guankun said, "Developed private schools are winners of vested interests and do not want new forces to participate. It seems that everyone is waiting for the bus. People who don't get on the bus always want people on the bus to squeeze in as much as possible, but they don't want others to squeeze in when they get on the bus. "
As an educational administrator, many of Zheng Guankun's views seem to be very different. One of his views is that private education in Xinmi needs to be "broken", and if it is not "broken", it will not be "established". According to Zheng Guankun's understanding, Xinmi's private education is currently at a crossroads, facing another transformation and breakthrough. Today's private education in Xinmi urgently needs foreign forces and new forces to participate in the competition. He believes that the current development model is at least immature. The original insight in education has now become an obstacle to the development of private education in Xinmi.
Zheng Guankun said that Xinmi's private education needs to dance with wolves. Only private schools that dare to dance with wolves will have lasting vitality. Therefore, Xinmi private education needs a new round of capital infiltration, especially the entry of huge foreign capital. He compared this to the expected "wolf effect".
For private schools in Xinmi, in fact, the biggest enemy lies in private education. They need to surpass themselves and break through themselves, because what is more important than vested interests is innovation, including concept innovation and system innovation, which is the driving force and source of private education.
"We publicize our achievements, but we will never cover up contradictions." Zheng Guankun said that private education is supported by spiritual strength and personality strength in the early stage of development, but to develop real quality education, we must first invest more money. "The private education in Xinmi has indeed developed, but we can't avoid some problems in the development process. It is beneficial for us to expose these problems and solve them step by step." Compared with the neighboring brother counties and cities, there is no private university in Xinmi so far, which is also an unspeakable pain in Xinmi people's hearts.
The private education in Xinmi has grown into a forest, but it has not yet become a forest. There are no big birds in the Woods, but a group of birds have flown like colorful clouds, which looks beautiful. This is a metaphor that Zheng Guankun made for Xinmi private education.
For a mature regional private education, Xinmi private education looks forward to the "wolf effect" and grows into a forest.