Get to know Yu Yi, the only "people's educator" in the field of basic education, who has written more than 7 million words of papers and has been teaching for 70 years
In order to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on promoting the spirit of educators, and to take Yu Yi, the "people's educator" around us as a role model, to publicize and promote the spirit of educators, the Shanghai Education Development Foundation and the Shanghai Library jointly planned and set up the theme exhibition area of "Promoting the spirit of educators, approaching the people's educator Yu Yi's book corner". On the afternoon of June 28, the "People's Educator Yu Yi's Book Corner" was unveiled in the East Building of the Shanghai Library and opened to the public for six months.
The "People's Educator Yu Yi's Book Corner" is located in the newspaper and magazine area on the second floor of the East Building of Shanghai Library. It displays relevant manuscripts, photos, works, videos, etc. to show and spread the educational pursuits, educational concepts and educational thoughts of the people's educator Yu Yi in a three-dimensional way. The book corner is divided into a display cabinet area, a display board area and an interactive area. The display cabinet area is guided by books. Through the four major sections of "taking books as companions, casting the teacher's soul with family and country feelings; teaching and educating people, life and mission go hand in hand; writing books and writing, building confident Chinese education; recommending books and using books, enlightening and increasing wisdom and nourishing new people", it shows Yu Yi's spiritual world of reading, teaching, writing and recommending books throughout his life, and being connected with books and accompanying books.
In order to allow readers to "reach out" to Yu Yi's "educator spirit", the Shanghai Library's East Building has produced a paper version of "Practicing the Educator's Spirit and Being a Good Teacher Like Yu Yi - Collection of Electronic Journals" for the exhibition. It is organized in the order of journal publication and readers can browse it at the exhibition site. They can also scan the QR code to view the Shanghai Library's collection information online for literature resources on the subject of Yu Yi.
Teacher Yu Yi signed the book "Practicing the Spirit of an Educator and Being a Good Teacher Like Yu Yi - Collection of Electronic Journals" at home.
The exhibition board area uses time as a guide, and through the form of a timeline, it slowly unfolds Yu Yi's teaching career of "life and mission go hand in hand". Since she officially became a glorious people's teacher in 1951, Yu Yi has "been a teacher all her life, and has been learning to be a teacher all her life". She has been teaching for 70 years, opened nearly 2,000 public classes, and wrote more than 7 million words of papers and monographs. She insists on teaching and educating people, and promotes "humanity" to be written into the national Chinese curriculum standards, making outstanding contributions to promoting the reform and development of basic education across the country. Yu Yi's vivid teaching practice, profound educational thoughts, lofty educational spirit and fruitful educational achievements vividly interpret the rich connotation of "educator spirit".
The timeline of Yu Yi's teaching career of "life and mission go hand in hand" is presented
The interactive area has set up interactive links such as a guestbook. Readers who leave their exhibition experience or what they want to say to Teacher Yu Yi will have the opportunity to receive "From Grassroots Teacher to People's Educator - Biography of Yu Yi" provided by the Shanghai Education Development Foundation.
At the unveiling ceremony of the "People's Educator Yu Yi's Book Corner" held that afternoon, Yu Yi's granddaughter Huang Yin donated manuscripts to the Chinese Cultural Celebrities Manuscript Collection of Shanghai Library on behalf of Yu Yi. Chen Chao, director of Shanghai Library, accepted the donation and issued a "Donation Certificate" to Yu Yi's family. Jiang Hong, vice chairman of the Municipal Education Development Foundation, presented "From Grassroots Teachers to People's Educators - Biography of Yu Yi" to Shanghai Library on behalf of the Foundation.
Huang Yin, Yu Yi's granddaughter, donated manuscripts to the Chinese Cultural Celebrities Manuscript Collection of Shanghai Library on behalf of Yu Yi
Wang Ronghua, chairman of the Shanghai Education Development Foundation, said that Yu Yi is the only teacher model in the basic education sector who has won the national honorary title of "People's Educator". She is the pride of Shanghai and a people's educator around us. Shanghai has unique conditions for promoting the spirit of educators, and we must make good use of this precious resource. The Foundation and Shanghai Library have worked together to create the "People's Educator Yu Yi Book Corner" for display and publicity, and are committed to creating an atmosphere for promoting the spirit of educators in the whole society, promoting the construction of a "book-loving city", and playing an important role in knowledge dissemination and cultural promotion in the cultural education system.
"People's Educator Yu Yi's Book Corner" unveiled in Shanghai Library's East Building
After the unveiling ceremony, Ji Lin, executive editor and editor of Shanghai Education magazine and member of Yu Yi's education and teaching thought propaganda team, gave a lecture on the theme of "Teacher Yu Yi: Life and Mission Go Hand in Hand". Combining her personal experience of interacting with Teacher Yu Yi for more than ten years, she explored Yu Yi's unusual growth experience and ideal pursuit from multiple perspectives such as Chinese language teaching reform, teacher training, ideological guidance, and spiritual character, and answered the question of "How did the people's educator become a good teacher?" Shanghai Library East Hall will also hold lectures on "Practicing the Spirit of Educators and Being a Good Teacher Like Yu Yi" and lectures on Yu Yi's education and teaching thoughts from time to time.