How to cultivate innovative talents in leading areas from an early age? Pudong Innovation Education Exploration Appears at Shanghai Education Expo
Pudong, which is building a leading area, is eager for innovative talents. Recently, the 20th Education Expo "Shanghai Education Live Streaming" with the theme of "co creating first-class urban education and co building the dream of becoming an education powerhouse" entered the "Pudong Time". Pudong Basic Education, which accounts for a quarter of the city's total, showcased many explorations in cultivating innovative talents and cultivating innovative talents across different stages.
Four "Innovation" Alliances
Consolidate the Soil for Cultivating Innovative Talents
Pudong is an education hub with over 1000 campuses in 653 primary and secondary schools, and 56000 faculty members serving 550000 students; Pudong is also the only regional education comprehensive reform demonstration zone in the city, and is one of the two experimental areas of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission's "Research and Practice of Creative Comprehensive Curriculum in Schools Based on Regional Characteristics" project. The location characteristics and special status of Pudong determine its urgent need to cultivate innovative talents.
According to Ding Lizhong, the Governor General of Education in Pudong New Area, Pudong Education focuses on implementing "dual wheel drive", developing "two main bodies", enhancing "two levels", and enhancing "dual wing assistance", planning a new pattern of education reform and development. In terms of innovative education, Pudong Experimental Zone has selected a total of 31 primary and secondary schools as project pilots in the entire district. Starting from regional characteristics, focusing on the construction of the "four centers" core functional areas, with the goal of cultivating student creativity and the comprehensive curriculum of schools as the carrier, it has innovatively formed the "Creative Education" system in Pudong by taking four alliances such as "Rong · Chuang", "Aviation · Chuang", "Science · Chuang", and "Culture · Chuang" as the prototype, gradually making beneficial explorations for the cultivation of student creativity in the basic education stage.
Among them, the "Rongchuang" alliance focuses on cultivating financial literacy, creating a comprehensive curriculum system for cultivating creativity throughout the entire learning stage through "co building courses+brand courses", and empowering student creativity cultivation; The "Navigation and Innovation" Alliance takes maritime culture as its characteristic starting point to create a driving force for cultivating student creativity, and explores the formation of an integrated curriculum that connects primary and secondary schools; The "Science and Technology Innovation" Alliance carries out practice and exploration of science and technology innovation education, constructs a comprehensive science and technology innovation curriculum group with the goal of cultivating student creativity, and provides a strong engine for the cultivation of science and technology innovation literacy; The "Cultural and Creative" Alliance integrates culture and innovation, creating a "hundred flowers blooming" five education integration curriculum, realizing the dual value of school curriculum innovation and cultivating student creativity through curriculum construction.
Li Jun, Vice President of Shanghai Pudong Education Development Research Institute, stated that under the drive of four "alliances", 31 project schools have developed comprehensive curriculum plans with unique characteristics, achieving innovation in school curriculum environment, classroom teaching, curriculum resources, and other aspects. Pudong primary and secondary school students explore the "most interesting chess games" on campus, design their own games, conduct face-to-face interviews with financial experts, conduct experiments on purifying seawater near the harbor, and also go to the Luchao Port seafood market to study fresh marine organisms such as crabs and marbled fish... The rich courses and activities provide students with a diverse exploration platform, nurturing and activating their creativity.
During the live broadcast, Chen Tianze, a ninth grade student from the East School of Shanghai Experimental School, shared his science and technology innovation story. He found that picking up shuttlecocks takes too much time in his school badminton class, so he spent three years designing an automatic device for picking and organizing shuttlecocks, and achieved two design iterations.
"Studying science and exploring technology has taught me to pay attention to various details in life, cultivate the habit of asking questions, and transform ideas into actions." Chen Tianze said that his experience in scientific and technological research projects in middle school has honed his insight and resilience, and also made him better understand cooperation and gratitude.
Coordinated promotion and implementation
The Trinity of Education, Technology, and Talents
The four "innovation" alliances are based on regional characteristics, come from real life, and make learning and problem-solving interesting, which are deeply loved by students. In recent years, Pudong has continuously explored new models of science and technology innovation education. Through the construction of the "Big Aircraft Science and Technology Innovation Experience Hall", the selection of "Pudong Young Academicians", the "Tomorrow's Science and Technology Star", the Youth Innovation Competition, the "Future Science Star" training plan, and the "Double Innovation Youth Talk" and other high-quality projects, it has helped to create a pilot zone for the reform of science and technology innovation talent training models.
"In the future, we will deepen comprehensive reforms in the field of education, coordinate the implementation of the" trinity "of education, technology, and talent, and cultivate more high-quality innovative talents to lead the construction of the district." Ding Lizhong revealed that Pudong will further establish a regular communication and consultation mechanism with the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, concentrate on breakthroughs in reform, open up the fast lane of policy achievements exchange in the urban area, and promote policy achievements to be first tested in Pudong and transformed into reform practice. At the same time, Pudong will continue to actively introduce high-quality educational resources from outside the district, striving for Shanghai's "985" and "211" universities to have cooperative education projects within the district, and focusing on building a model for cultivating top talents in mathematics and science. By building a base for cultivating top-notch innovative talents in basic disciplines, collaborating with high schools and universities to hold experimental and characteristic classes, and offering pre university courses, efforts are made to explore effective paths to match the early cultivation of top-notch innovative talents urgently needed for national and urban development, and to assist in the construction of strong education areas and socialist modernization leading areas.
Text: Fu Jia
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