Chongqing Nankai University Middle School： Condensing the majestic power, writing a new chapter in education

"Grasp ideological and political work, improve the’gold content ‘of ideological and political classrooms, strengthen the construction of teachers’ ethics and style, and lead the development of basic education…" Recently, Ran Mengkai, Secretary of the Party Committee of Nankai University Middle School in Chongqing, said in the signed article "Condensing the majestic power, writing a new chapter on education" that in recent years, Nankai University Middle School has implemented the party’s educational policy with practical results, maintained the moral and tree the main position, practiced the spirit of "educator", satisfied the people’s yearning for a better life, responded to "great promise" with "great achievements", and responded to the party’s call and the masses’ expectations with the educational achievements of Nankai University.

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Condensing the majestic power and writing a new chapter in education

Ran Mengkai, Secretary of the Party Committee of Nankai University, Chongqing

The new era calls for new actions, and the new journey requires new responsibilities. Nankai University Middle School fully implements the party’s education policy, responds to "great promise" with "great achievements", and responds to the party’s call and the masses’ expectations with Nankai University’s educational achievements.

Grasp the ideological and political work and implement the party’s education policy with practical results

Nankai University Middle School continues to make efforts from four aspects: organizational strengthening, teacher training, student shaping, and home-school co-education, forming a closed-loop chain of ideological and political work.

Fully highlight the core position of the party organization in the school work. The school party committee deeply implements the principal responsibility system led by the party organization to achieve comprehensive leadership over the school work. The school party committee adheres to the main responsibility of managing the party, running the school, and will put the direction, managing the overall situation, making decisions, grasping the team, leading the team, and ensuring the implementation of political requirements, which run through the whole process and aspects of running the school, teaching and educating people.

Under the leadership of the school’s party committee, the "Chongqing Primary and Secondary School for Party Building and Innovation" and "Chongqing’s first batch of clean schools" were established, the "Hongyan Pioneer Transformative Party Organization" was established, and the "Ran Mengkai Party Organization Secretary’Double Leaders’ Studio" was established. The "Public Power · Mirror" party building action was carried out, and the "Hongyan Pioneer Demonstration Post" was selected. With party members and teachers as anchors, it took the lead in building an ideological and political work team with excellent political quality and excellent professional ability. Guide all teachers to stand up with morality and be the leader of students’ growth and talent.

Nankai students hold the "New Era Integrity Culture Reader" to study at the Integrity Culture Education Base. Photo courtesy of Chongqing Nankai University Middle School

Continue to reform the way of moral education and educate people, and encourage middle school students to set great ambitions, make great virtues and become great talents. Implement the trinity curriculum system of "knowledge-feeling-ambition" and the practice system of "public power" moral education, explore the flexible psychological education mechanism, and practice patriotic education with public power culture. Offer a wealth of elective courses in Sinology and intangible cultural heritage, teach traditional crafts such as pottery, paper-cutting, tie-dyeing, and encourage students to participate in Sino-foreign cultural exchange programs to broaden cultural horizons and inspire cultural self-confidence. With party building and team building, we will create the red brand "Nankai University Story Club", carry out the "Red Rock Soul" walking group class, and do a solid job in the moral education basic project of "retaining the roots and connecting the qi". Guide the young students of Nankai University from "people who listen to stories" to "people who tell stories" and grow into "people who write stories".

Nankai University middle school walking group class – into the new channel of land and sea. Photo courtesy of Chongqing Nankai University middle school

Build and make good use of Qinglian Zi Parent School. Carry out home-school and community co-education with "Top Ten Parent Classrooms", create a warm and harmonious educational ecology, and cultivate students into modern citizens who love truth, pursue virtue and excellence with sincerity and love.

Improve the "Gold Content" of Ideological and Political Classroom and Guard the Main Position of Lide and Tree People with Practical Results

Remembering the "We must make good use of the’big ideological and political class’", adhere to the fundamental task of building people with morality, take society as the textbook and the times as the theme, develop the "golden class" of ideology and politics, cultivate the "golden teacher" of ideology and politics, create the "golden product" of ideology and politics, improve the "rise rate" of young students in ideological and political classes, steadily improve the "gold content" of ideological and political classes, and effectively enhance the sense of acquisition of young people.

Do a good job in the cultivation and training of key personnel in ideological and political courses. The school party committee adheres to the curriculum development concept of the integration of knowledge and action, and the co-education of reason and reality.

To build and strengthen the integrated education system of ideological and political courses. To further promote the integrated construction of ideological and political courses in universities, middle schools and primary schools, grasp the main channels of classroom education, select key personnel of ideological and political teachers, maintain the main position of morality and tree people, enhance students’ ambition, backbone and confidence, and strive to cultivate "public" young people with both family and country feelings and world vision. Based on the advantages of red cultural resources in the sand area, carry out a series of activities to "crown the name of Hongyan and cast the soul of Hongyan". Fully integrate the strengths of all schools in the Nankai University Middle School Alliance, establish a research and implementation system for ideological and political integration, and form a "Hongyan Big Classroom" curriculum system with the temperament of the Nankai University Alliance. Focusing on the integration of teaching system, teaching activities and teaching practice, promote the integration of training and learning, and realize the integration of professional growth.

Strengthen the construction of teachers’ ethics and style, and practice the spirit of "educator" with practical results

The school party committee vigorously promotes the spirit of educators, benchmarking the standards of "four have" good teachers, "four guides" and "four unity", and constantly strengthening the construction of teachers’ ethics and style, helping the whole school staff to establish "the self-consciousness of words as teachers and behavior in the world", motivating the teachers of the whole school to be the "moral teachers" and "article teachers" of young students, and guiding the staff to become the "big masters" of education for students to learn, do things, and be people.

Innovate the form of teacher ethics education, establish and improve a long-term mechanism for the construction of teacher ethics and style. Every Tuesday at the administrative office meeting, theoretical learning, model learning, and warning education videos are regularly broadcast, and ideological and political classes are regularly carried out for secretaries and principals. The concept of Nankai University’s public energy is integrated into the teacher training system, highlighting teachers’ sense of responsibility, mission education, and patriotism education, so that the requirements of teacher ethics and style are internalized in the heart and externalized in the line.

Strict teacher ethics assessment, so that teachers’ code of conduct "grows teeth". The school party committee strictly implements the ten guidelines for teachers’ professional behavior in the new era, and implements teacher evaluation methods involving students, parents, and society. In the past five years, third-party evaluations have shown that the school has always been highly affirmed by parents, students, and society. Formulate the "Four Have · Five Pin" golden class teaching evaluation standard, and adhere to the "zero tolerance" situation of "one vote veto" on the issue of teacher ethics and teacher style.

Highlight the example and demonstration, so that excellent people can be seen, learn, and do well. Establish a teacher honor system in Nankai University to build momentum for teaching and educating people. Honors such as outstanding young teachers/class teachers, backbone teachers, teaching masters, and teaching and educating models are gradually advancing, and teachers at different stages of growth are encouraged to strive for professional goals. Special projects set up honors such as teaching achievement awards and excellent reviews of subject group writings to motivate teachers to cultivate and study carefully, write books and make stories, and achieve professional growth. The school party committee sets up party member Hongyan Pioneer Demonstration Post for all front-line teachers with teacher ethics and mass satisfaction as the core assessment standards. Give full play to the role of outstanding party members and teachers as role models in teaching style and school ethos, and make the "excellent standards" and "codes of conduct" of teachers’ ethics and teaching style process and visualize. Timely absorb teachers with excellent teaching results and good teachers’ ethics and teaching style to join the party, deepen the "dual training" system of "training party members into backbone members, and cultivating backbone members into party members", so as to drive the teaching staff to build morality and build people and build souls.

Leading the development of basic education and meeting the people’s yearning for a better life with practical results

The school party committee deeply takes public welfare, universal benefits and high-quality balance as the basic direction, focuses on the urgent needs of the people, and relies on the courage and perseverance to innovate and climb the hurdle to answer the new era of "building a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system" ordered by the times and the people.

With reform and innovation as the driving force, activate the endogenous development momentum of education. Take the lead in building the "Nankai University Public Curriculum System" with curriculum as the center, and the school won the only first prize in Southwest China in the first national basic education achievement promotion. Awarded honors such as National Civilized Campus, the first batch of national demonstration schools for the implementation of new curriculum and new textbooks for ordinary high schools, and China Youth Maker Olympic Experimental Base. Relying on the "10,000-person plan" teaching master teacher studio, Ministry of Education master teacher pilot engineering expert studio, mental health education teaching expert studio and other national and municipal master teacher studios, various subject bases and Peking University Boya School, Tsinghua Qingnan School, Qiu Chengtong Youth Class and other top-notch innovative talent training bases, hold and host more than 10 national academic forums to improve the school in basic education has the voice over and influence. Since 2020, school teachers have won 1 second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, 2 first prizes of the Chongqing Municipal Teaching Achievement Award, and more than 20 first prizes of municipal and above book selection activities. They have won more than 30 first prizes at the municipal level and above in high-quality course competitions and teaching skills competitions. They have established a "double new" special academic journal "New Curriculum and New Textbook" for national distribution. They have published 14 books, published more than 50 papers in core journals, and established 16 provincial and municipal-level and above topics, achieving full coverage of writing topics. A total of more than 10 teachers have won honors such as recipients of special allowances from the State Council, famous teachers of the National 10,000-person plan teaching, national basic education achievement awards, and famous teachers of Chongqing disciplines.

Nankai University Middle School hosts the 2023 exchange seminar on top-notch student training and "High School and University Connection Education". Photo courtesy of Chongqing Nankai University Middle School

Through brand co-creation, platform co-construction, teaching co-research, and co-training of top-notch innovative talents, the school-running pattern of Nankai University Middle School, Nankai University Liangjiang Middle School, Nankai University (Rongqiao) Middle School, and Nanyu Middle School has been formed, improving the quality of teaching and learning, and fulfilling the promise of "making good schools at the doorstep of ordinary people".

The school implements the "group-style" assistance mechanism for educational talents of the Organization Department of the Central Committee. Photo courtesy of Chongqing Nankai University Middle School

Focusing on promoting the high-quality and balanced development of education, we carry out various forms of mutual assistance activities. Every year, 200 famous teachers are selected to participate in high-level teaching reform forums across the country to share the experience and wisdom of education and teaching. More than 4,000 people come to the school for exchange and study visits every year, and nearly 100 visiting scholars from the west of the Three Gorges Light have come to the school to study on the job. They normally share the achievements of education and teaching reform and innovation of Nankai University, and cultivate business backbones and management backbones for various schools. Implement the working mechanism of "group-style" assistance for educational talents of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, select outstanding teachers to help the Chengkou Experimental Middle School affiliated to Chongqing Normal University, and "transplant" the public education concept and running experience of Nankai University Middle School according to local conditions to help the development of Chengkou Education. One member of the support teaching team was awarded the "Top Ten People of Chongqing Rural Revitalization". Participate in the coordinated development of Yuxin Education in the new era, and help the high-quality development of No. 1 Middle School in Balikun Kazakh Autonomous County, Xinjiang. Implement the "County High School Quality Improvement and Empowering Plan", practice the concept of "co-construction, sharing, integration and progress", build the Nankai University Mathematics and Intelligence Education Alliance, and radiate to Xinyunchuan, Chongqing and Guizhou Since 2010, the school has bundled and assisted some schools in Pengshui County, Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, Qianjiang District, Wulong District, Qijiang District, Shapingba District, etc., to promote the high-quality development of county-level education.