Tongling City Grasps Practical Education to Empower Teenagers for Healthy Growth and All-round Development.

Labor education, comprehensive practice, study tour, national defense education, quality development, and rule of law publicity … In Tongling, colorful off-campus comprehensive practical education activities have created colorful "walking classrooms", opened a larger and broader classroom space with "educating people through practice", empowered young students to grow up healthily and develop in an all-round way, and realized all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.

The best class is on the road, and the walking class is more exciting. Relying on "a school without schoolbags and a classroom without textbooks", Tongling City is committed to a new school of "practical education"-Tongling National Demonstration Comprehensive Practice Base and Datong Camp, which is a "finless porpoise town and a hometown of research", constantly broadening the extracurricular research practice courses for young students and embarking on a road of "practical education" with Tongling characteristics.

Establishing characteristic mode and establishing brand of research practice

Relying on the national demonstration comprehensive practice base and the Datong camp of the national primary and secondary school students’ research and practice education, Tongling City has established an interactive education model of "base+school", and actively carried out special practical education activities such as multi-theme publicity and education, multi-course integration and infiltration, and multi-line research and practice activities through collaborative education. Broaden and extend coordinated education, adhere to the integration of education, practicality, service, safety and public welfare, and achieve "full coverage" of primary and secondary schools in the city. Constantly integrate the educational resources of foreign studies in the school, adhere to collaborative education, and cooperate closely with the municipal public security bureau, judicial bureau, political and legal Committee, civil air defense office and other departments to build a youth theme venue project. Accelerate the deepening of regional cooperation, based on the development of research practice education in the new era, constantly integrate into the general trend of integrated development in the Yangtze River Delta, strengthen interconnection with other urban camps in the Yangtze River Delta region, jointly develop research courses, and improve the service and education quality of research courses. Broaden cooperation channels, continuously strengthen the interconnection mechanism with camps in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, strengthen mutual visits, exchanges and cooperation, learn advanced research management experience and practices, and explore research line courses.

At the same time, the city’s practical courses have developed more than 100 compulsory and elective courses with five modules: survival experience, quality development, scientific practice, theme education and research practice, including more than 40 popular science courses such as maker, VR, sand painting, coastal defense, bit experiment, scientific inquiry, healthy microbiology and computer disassembly, so that students can get happiness and success in practice and feel creative and grow.

Deeply cultivate the feelings of home and country and innovate the comprehensive practical course.

In order to adhere to the concept of "cultivating people by virtue and educating people by practice", Tongling will continue to deepen the curriculum construction and optimize the curriculum design of comprehensive practical education. Based on this province, it will explore rich educational resources of red theme and emblem culture, implement "ideological and political education" in the process of "educating people by practice", continuously optimize and integrate high-quality educational resources, broaden the participation of primary and secondary school students, and continuously improve the influence and radiation of practical education activities.

In the process of carrying out the "Four History" education with the emphasis on the study and education of party history, Tongling City has always insisted on taking young people as the main body of the study and education of party history, using the century-old red party history to consolidate the foundation and cultivate the soul, and strive to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, beauty and labor. The city has created a "walking party history study and education course" and made good use of research and practice resources. Adhere to the organic integration of school and off-campus, in-class and out-of-class, and use the "adolescent way" to "move" the study and education of party history. Relying on the national demonstration comprehensive practice base and Datong Long March theme red education camp. Since 2021, more than 60,000 young students of all academic periods have been organized to go deep into the Red Education Base, carry out regular red research and education activities, and carry out research and education practice activities of "Following the Party’s Footprint-Red Journey" to pursue the Party’s Red Footprint and sow the seeds of patriotism and power in the hearts of young students.

Not only that, in the process of "educating people by practice", Tongling City pays attention to cultivating young students’ local culture, cultivating their feelings of home and country, and relying on local practical education resources such as the Copper Culture Museum to guide young students to fully understand Tongling’s long history of bronze civilization, splendid culture and gorgeous treasures. Based on the unique and beautiful natural scenery and rich cultural heritage of the city and its surrounding areas, six theme research courses were developed, including "Experience the achievements of reform and opening up", "Feel the great rivers and mountains of the motherland", "Feel the traditional Chinese culture", "Pay attention to the ecology of the Yangtze River", "Feel the glorious tradition of revolution" and "Experience the farming culture of water towns", and 42 excellent research routes were developed, and "4+1" and "3" were launched.

Deepening the "Five Education Simultaneously" and Helping the "Double Reduction" Landing Effective　

Since the implementation of the "Double Reduction" policy, Tongling City has made great efforts to promote the "Double Reduction" and "Combination Boxing", developed various courses of comprehensive practice, and carried out research and practical education activities regularly, helping the "Double Reduction" to take effect, subtracting the students’ academic burden, and adding the students’ healthy growth. By improving the after-school service system of "Five Education", the "Five Education" was promoted.

In the first winter vacation after the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, in order to meet the needs of parents, solve the problem of "difficult care" for students’ holidays, and guide and help primary and secondary school students to spend a safe, happy and meaningful holiday, Tongling City made full use of the city’s demonstration comprehensive practical education base and Datong Camp to do a good job in the comprehensive practical custody service for primary and secondary school students in winter vacation, and helped the city to implement the "double reduction" work.

Writing Spring Festival couplets, wrapping jiaozi, playing Ciba, and saying old customs … During the Spring Festival this year, cheerful and high-pitched Tibetan music resounded through every corner of Datong Camp, a demonstration comprehensive practice base in Tongling City, and it was filled with a warm and happy atmosphere everywhere. More than 200 Tibetan teachers and students who stayed in the city’s ethnic school for the New Year were gathering with Han teachers, singing and dancing, talking about Sino-Tibetan friendship and having a special time. Affected by the epidemic situation in COVID-19 and the long distance, all 223 Tibetan students studying in Tongling City stayed there for the New Year. In order to ensure that these Tibetan children, who are far away from their hometown, spend a warm, happy and meaningful winter vacation and Spring Festival in Tongling, Tongling City, through the comprehensive practice custody service of Datong Camp, a demonstration comprehensive practice base of the city, "tailor-made" colorful comprehensive practice courses for Tibetan students, so that students can feel the charm of traditional culture "zero distance".

Under the background of "double reduction", the comprehensive practical education in Tongling City, through "on-campus+off-campus" complementary efficiency, on the one hand, continuously improves the quality of after-school service, fully explores teachers’ resources, actively participates in after-school service, and vigorously introduces qualified and quality social forces into the campus to meet the diverse needs of students in art and sports; On the one hand, give full play to the role of the city’s demonstration comprehensive practice base and Datong camp, and develop colorful comprehensive practice courses in combination with the characteristics of students of different classes; And through "going out", we will lead young students into the research practice bases inside and outside the city, guide young students to feel the profoundness of Huizhou culture in Huizhou architecture, enhance national self-confidence in the history museum, and inherit the red gene in the revolutionary memorial hall … to realize the complementary effect of research practice education and after-school service activities, and promote the deep integration of students’ burden reduction and after-school service.

In the next step, Tongling’s practical education will comprehensively enhance exchanges and cooperation with the bases (camps) in the Yangtze River Delta region, open up excellent lines of research and practice, and continuously improve the influence and radiation of Tongling’s research and practice education activities. Firmly establish the educational concept of "cultivating people by virtue and practicing", and integrate morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor into the system construction of comprehensive practical curriculum development, activity organization, multi-evaluation and research practice, so as to comprehensively promote the healthy growth and all-round development of young students. (Special correspondent: Xu Xiaobo)