Shanghai high school students have innovative volunteer service social practice positions, including community researcher, music therapist, and gold medal mediator. High school students | Service | Volunteer
Starting today, primary and secondary school students in Shanghai will welcome a 2-month summer vacation. What are the more precise, widely beneficial, and far-reaching characteristic projects in the social practice of volunteer service for high school students in Shanghai this summer?
The Shanghai High School Volunteer Service Curriculum Plan requires that volunteer service during the high school stage be no less than 60 hours. On the eve of summer vacation, the 2023 summer "Putuo University" high school student volunteer service social practice was launched, aiming to revitalize regional resources, link with 6 locations in 4 streets and towns in Putuo, open up student socialization channels, and build an off campus social practice service system for "Putuo University". Cao Yang Second Middle School, Jin Yuan Senior High School, East China Normal University Second Affiliated Middle School, Ganquan Foreign Language Middle School, Tongji University Second Affiliated Middle School, Shanghai Conservatory of Music Affiliated Anshi Experimental Middle School, Taopu Middle School, East China Normal University Affiliated Jinhua Middle School, and Peijia Bilingual School have collaborated closely with six party and mass service centers in Lantian, Tongchuan, Zhenping, Taopu, Zhenru, and Kaixuan. Based on regional characteristics, the area provides high school students with commuting service positions and special high school student positions. It is expected that more than 700 high school students will participate in volunteer services in the area.
The Jiefang Daily Shangguan News reporter saw that these high school students have created volunteer service positions based on regional characteristics, allowing them to participate in community governance, smart elderly care, multilingual foreign language teaching assistants, community concerts, and caring mediators. Through the "school+area" two-way interaction and two-way travel job settings, they explore the establishment of three types of positions in the street town area that combine "commuting service, special recruitment, and adaptive growth", so that high school students can enhance their sense of social responsibility in participating in volunteer services.
The relevant person in charge of the Putuo District Education Bureau introduced that in the past three years, the district education bureau has actively explored high-quality resources within the district, relying on the commission bureau and streets and towns, mobilizing high-quality resources such as venues and enterprises within the jurisdiction, and developing its educational functions. Six new bases have been added, including social service, psychological, and safety, to meet the personalized and professional practical needs of some students. The district education bureau has systematically designed 126 city and district level student social practice bases within the district, integrating them into the resource map of Putuo University, making the layout of educational resources more reasonable. Based on the learning and school situation, the school provides "adaptive growth" positions to the community, that is, it provides 20 adaptive growth series courses with high school students as lecturers to community residents, covering multiple fields such as intelligent elderly care, language learning, handicrafts, digital programming, and artistic cultivation. It gathers the strength of youth, helps enrich community life, and forms a "1+1>2" two-way rush model, jointly empowering student growth.
At present, 126 student social practice bases in Putuo District have formed a new regional education system that integrates morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor education based on regional characteristics, with diverse subject participation, full social support, and open integration, ensuring 100% coverage of volunteer services for high school students. This summer, more than 3500 first-year Putuo high school students will join various volunteer service teams. The "Putuo University" high school student volunteer service characteristic project will also be promoted throughout the region, cultivating the spirit of "dedication, friendship, mutual assistance, and progress" among high school students in the region, and striving to create a regional demonstration brand. Wang Haiwei, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Student Moral Education Development Center, said that he hopes to gather efforts from all walks of life to create rich service positions, guide more high school student volunteers to participate in various volunteer service activities, use their learned skills to serve the community, internalize their growth through their observations and experiences, use practical actions to pass on the baton of love, and promote the good trend of volunteer public welfare.