Multiple Enlightenment top-notch innovation

--Sichuan Mianyang Nanshan Middle School's Cultivation of Top Innovative Talents

 Tang Jianglin (1938-), journalist and novelist Deng Youshan (1902-1985), sociologist and journalist, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution reporter for the Journal Liu Ping (1962-), PRC diplomat, special representative of the Chinese communist party from 2005 Correspondent Liu Youxin

The imposing gates of Nanshan Middle School

    Innovation is the soul of national progress and the foundation of national prosperity; it is the engine that drives social development and progress.2011In 2007, Nanshan Middle School in Mianyang, Sichuan Province was recognized by the provincial education department as a "pilot school for the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents". After nearly six years of exhaustive efforts, a new model for the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents with the characteristics of Nanshan Middle School has stood out.

Achievements, from innovative schooling

Century-old Nanshan, classic and famous school. Mianyang Nanshan Middle School was founded in1908Year. It is the first batch of Sichuan Province to run a good14It is one of the first key middle schools in the province, the first first class model school in the province, the first model model school for the new curriculum reform in the province, and the first national model school.50A century-old school, the national reform and opening up30Achievements in the development of basic education over the years30School, China260High Schools of Excellence National38Strong school. Tsinghua's "New Centennial Leadership Program" and Peking University's "President's Recommendation by Name" are double-promoted schools, and the Air Force Recruitment and Pilotage Bureau's "Air Force Flight Cadet High Quality Student Source Base". 2015The school was recognized as a "Ministry of Education High School Experimental School for Modern Literature and Science Education" in 2007.2003The school successfully hosted the National Middle School Football Tournament in 2007.2006hosting the National Olympiad in Informatics for the year.2013,2014,2015Hosted the first, second and third National Middle School Tennis Tournaments in 2007.2015surname Nian3China's team at the World Secondary School Championships in Doha in December was ranked among the world's best in the field.13The team's best performance in history was created by the Chinese team.2016The school will host the National Informatics Olympiad and the National Middle School Aerobics Championships. From here, a generation of poet He Jingzhi, the founder of new China's optics Xu Shurong, entomologist Zhang Guangxue, photoelectronics pioneer Ma Zuguang, mechanics titan Zhang Jiying, and many other scientists, literati, artists and entrepreneurs have emerged.10More than 10,000 outstanding students all over the motherland ......

    More than a hundred years later, Nanshan Middle School has accumulated the guiding ideology of "letting students be the masters of their growth and laying the foundation for their lifelong development". The development concept of "diversified enlightenment, ladder leading, independent development, and building a successful overpass for every student".

Nanshan students win VEX Robotics Championship world title

      Planning, design of system for cultivating top-notch innovative talents

 The essence of top innovative talents is that they are leaders and outstanding talents who have a strong sense of enterprise, a sense of social responsibility and a distinctive concept of honor and disgrace in various fields, especially in science and technology and management, and who have the spirit and ability to innovate and make significant contributions to the development of the country and society. The core characteristics are persistent enterprising and questioning spirit, extraordinary perception, active learning and inquiry quality, creative motivation and innovation. Unique growth trajectory: personality manifestation - autonomous accumulation - inexhaustible innovation - responsibility-driven.

    In practice, Nanshan High School strives to grasp the "four principles", achieve the "four combinations" and realize the "four goals". "Four Principles": create a relaxed and rigorous environment for human development; provide composite high-quality educational resources; form an intensive cultivation of the teaching management mechanism; highlight the innovative features of Chinese high school education. "Four combinations": combining high school foundation with university courses; combining unified learning with independent learning; combining on-campus learning with off-campus training; and combining generalist teaching with mentor guidance. "Four goals": moral goal, solid scientific and humanistic literacy, especially honesty, compatibility and patriotism; professional goal, clear professional hobbies, outstanding skills, and strong interest in learning and inquiry; creative and practical goal, ability to diverge as well as focus the mind, and strong desire for creativity and persistence in the spirit of innovation; mentality goal, firm will to learn, ability to The goal of mentality is to have a strong will to learn, to treat setbacks and achievements correctly, to set self-goals and revise them in time, and to be proactive in realizing the goals.

    Under the guidance of the elaborated "Implementation Plan for the Cultivation of Top Innovative Talents in Mianyang Nanshan Middle School", the school takes the textbook office as the project office, which is specifically in charge of curriculum development and teacher training, the Admissions Office is in charge of the recommendation and selection of students and the design of the graduation pathway, the Education Office is in charge of the process of teaching and supervising, and the School Committee is in charge of the construction and management of clubs. Grade groups are responsible for classroom management and daily teaching, classroom teachers and classroom teachers combine the characteristics of students to develop individualized plans that meet the development of students, ensuring that students create a loose but effective space for learning and development.2013In 2007, the school set up an Academic Committee, which is mainly composed of internal teaching cadres and external experts, and is mainly responsible for the evaluation of students and teachers, as well as the assessment of their achievements. Subsequently, the school also set up the "Famous Teachers' Workshop" and the "Famous Principals' Workshop of Principal Tang Jianglin". Provide theoretical guidance on project incubation and teaching process for the "Innovative Practice School-based Curriculum Development Team".

The Tennis Branch of the Chinese Secondary School Students' Sports Association was established at Nanshan Middle School.

        Selection, the cornerstone of the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents

 The cultivation of outstanding and innovative talents is incorporated into the school's five-year plan, and "special zones" are set up to further adopt special enrollment modes for students who have extraordinary qualities or obsessive interests in a certain field. First, the use of group schooling advantages: Mianyang Nanshan Education Group to Nanshan Middle School as the mother, a collection of Nanshan Middle School Experimental School, Nanshan Middle School Bilingual School, Suining Nanshan International School, Pansi Nanshan International and other four branches, Nanshan Education Group has become "navigation Mianyang, radiation throughout the whole country, the influence of the national" flagship of education. The second is to use the brand advantage of a century-old school and the project advantage of the top innovation, relying closely on the province's junior high schools to recommend the outstanding students, namely, junior high school students who won various types of National Middle School Subject Olympiad competition in the provincial level, or other national achievement award winners, and so on. At the same time, is piloting junior high school principals "exempted from the test special students recommended" system. Thirdly, since the launch of the project, with the strong support of the higher education authorities, schools have been given the autonomy to enroll students in the secondary school examination, and can face the province's independent enrollment and selection.

 2013The International Department of Nanshan Middle School was formally established in 2007. According to the provincial education department's "Notice on Doing a Good Job of Exploring the Establishment of a Pilot Base for Cultivating Top-notch Innovative Talents" and the spirit of "reforming high school enrollment and admission methods", the school successfully launched the "Five Selection and Training Programs for Outstanding Students" for the whole province.

Nanshan Students Achieve Excellent Results in the 32nd National Youth Olympiad in Informatics

     Cultivation, the core link in the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents

Reform and optimization of the curriculum system. Curriculum design highlights the humanization of "motivate students with interest, inspire students with rational interest, move students with interest, enrich students with knowledge, enhance students' ability, practice students, and lead students with innovation" as the goal; "cultivate outstanding talents with sound personality and creativity" as the purpose. The aim is to "cultivate excellent talents with sound personality and creativity". Highlighting the science, humanities, arts and curriculum implementation mode, the curriculum mainly consists of "four types and two categories". The four types are "basic, extension, research and activity-based courses"; the two main types are "academic inquiry and creative skills".

 A.Academic Inquiry Classes are mainly the five major subjects of Mathematics, Science, Chemistry, Biology and Informatics Olympiad Interest Classes, Literature Clubs, Business Planning Programs, Study Abroad Programs, and Art and Creativity Interest Classes.

B.Innovative skills courses are mainly robotics science and technology innovation, multimedia technology and production, aeromodelling design and production, small scientists ecological botanical gardens, the Air Force national defense reserve personnel training, the combination of education and sports model - tennis, soccer, basketball, aerobics and other projects to develop high-level athletes.

    "Two types" of teaching characteristics:A.The teaching of "academic inquiry" courses mainly adopts inquiry-based, inspirational, discussion-based and participatory teaching methods, focusing on the combination of learning and thinking, and the combination of lecture and practice.B.The teaching of "hands-on skills" often adopts task-driven, group cooperation and hands-on experimental teaching methods, setting hands-on tasks according to students' individual interests and creative potential. The basic compulsory courses emphasize "fast-paced, high-capacity, low-density, less interference", cultivating ability, expanding horizons, rationalizing emotions, and activating thinking. The specialized extension courses emphasize "advancement, research, high degree of difficulty and independence" to ensure that each student can enjoy personalized training conditions and research learning attempts.

    Reform and improve the assessment and evaluation system and methods. According to the evaluation principles of diversified objectives, diversified methods and focusing on the process, scientific and comprehensive evaluation is carried out by adopting comprehensive evaluation methods such as observation, communication, quiz, practical operation, work demonstration, self-assessment and mutual assessment, etc., and the growth files of the cultivated objects of top-notch innovative talents are established and improved.

    Since the launch of the Nanshan Middle School's Top Innovative Talent Program, the school has invested nearly300The company has built libraries, tennis courts, experimental buildings, information buildings, art centers, fitness centers, innovation and practice centers, and psychological counseling stations, and has also made full use of the resource advantages of Mianyang Science and Technology City to build new libraries, tennis courts, experimental buildings, and information buildings.4Off-campus practice bases. Matchmaking with some universities in the province, sharing library and6A number of specialized high-end laboratories have created reliable material conditions for the development of innovative projects at the top.

     Achievements, fruitful results of the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents

 Nanshan Middle School has been in operation since2011Since then, in the five major subject Olympiads in mathematics, science, chemistry, biology and informatics, a total of160person has been awarded the first prize of the State.15The number of people entering the national team, the Olympiad results in the province's top; through the Olympiad guaranteed admission to the country's first-class brand-name universities160people, ranking first in the province. Today, Tsinghua, Peking University, Zhejiang University and other50Nanshan Middle School has been recognized as a high quality student source base by more than one national key colleges and universities, and has been recognized as a high quality student source base by the national100remaining places"985","211"Engineering universities have been recognized as excellent source bases or "science talent cultivation bases".2015The number of school guaranteed admission to Peking University and Tsinghua University accounted for one-third of the province, ranking first in the province.

    Nanshan Middle School also has its own characteristics in exploring the mode of training national defense reserve talents, and they have cooperated with the11The school has signed the agreement of excellent student source base with all the military colleges and universities. In recent years, the school senior students have been admitted to military colleges and universities and general colleges and universities of national defense students, the number of students ranked first in the southwest region.2012In 2008, the school was recognized by the People's Liberation Army Air Force Pilot Recruitment Department as the "Air Force Pilot Quality Source Base".

    The combination of education and sports, diversified talent. The school opened a training base for top tennis talents, with the10More than well-known colleges and universities signed tennis quality student base agreement. Has hosted9times in provincial secondary school tennis tournaments, twice in national-level tennis sectionals, and in recent years, in the Sichuan Provincial Secondary School Tennis Tournament and Championships.120More than one student was qualified as a national level 2 athlete.2013The First National Middle School Tennis Championships was hosted by the school and was a great success. The total number of gold medals and medals won by the Nanshan Middle School team was the highest in the country.2015In the 3rd China Secondary School Tennis Championships in 2007, Nanshan students topped the total number of medals.

    Specialty development, wonderful. The school takes clubs as platforms and activities as carriers to fully develop students' specialties. School Wenmingxuan Literary Club is the national "Chinese teenagers writing garden", has won the national secondary school students campus culture club rally champion.

Scientific and technological innovations with a worldwide reputation. The main innovative projects areVEXRobotics, Creative Robotics, Computer Production, Creative Information, Chinese Wooden Architecture, Technological Innovation, Creative Aviation Modeling, Creative Automotive, Mathematical Modeling, Filmmaking and Choreography, Earth and Space Science, and Life and Biological Science.2013Students participated in technology-based competitions during the year. 2The students won the first prize of Sichuan primary and secondary school computer production activities.2013surname Nian7Nanshan Middle School modeling team won the first prize in the province and was qualified to represent Sichuan Province to participate in the National Grand Prix.2014yearly awardVEXRobotics National First Prize and qualified to represent China in the World Robotics Competition.2015In the National Open Aerospace Modeling Championships for scientific research, competitors sent by the school picked up the first and second prizes in the event, and swept the first-class RC stunt (P3A-1) The winner and runner-up.

 Study abroad with international connections. In recent years, the school has500Freshmen have won high scholarships to prestigious foreign universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, Australia, and Singapore, and the U.S.-staying class has set a record for entering a first-class world-famous university in the United States as a whole class.

  

(Note: The author, Mr. Tang Jianglin, is the Principal of Nanshan Middle School; Mr. Deng Youshan is the Director of the Administrative Office of Nanshan Middle School)