12 | ADVERTORIAL Monday, November 9, 2020 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY Effort puts Licang district in a class of its own Years of investment sees highquality schools constructed, We are striving to more professional elevate education and training programs sports in Licang to a new level in the hope By YIN RUOWEI [email protected] of building Licang into an innovative Education has long been a top pri ority for Licang district in Qingdao, and garden Shandong province, with the dis downtown district fit trict government taking various measures over the years to improve for work, living, its quality. health and mood.” That includes renovating school buildings, collaborating with key Wang Xiaoguang, Party schools outside Qingdao and offer secretary and director of the Licang education ing studentcentered tutoring. and sports bureau “Education that makes students’ lives colorful is the cornerstone of our work. We hold highquality Behind that is local schools’ con courses at our core, give love to stant online tutoring throughout every school and work hard to satis the COVID19 outbreak. fy people’s demands,” said Wang In order to promote students’ Xiaoguang, Party secretary and initiative learning in classroom director of the Licang education and teaching, the Licang Experimental sports bureau. Primary School began to optimize “We are striving to elevate educa its teaching model as early as 2015. tion and sports in Licang to a new “Considering that our students level in the hope of building Licang are from families where the ratio of into an innovative and green down The Qingdao Licang District Experimental Junior High School is one of the model establishments that demonstrates the district’s efforts in parents with a highschool degree is town district fit for work, living, promoting modern education. PHOTOS PROVIDE TO CHINA DAILY less than 10 percent, parents may health and mood.” find hard to help their children Currently, Chongqing Middle study,” Li Yahui, the high school’s Road School located in Licang dis principal, said. trict is undergoing a largescale ren “The students’ personal develop ovation. ment is the core. We want them to To speed up the construction, staff learn things on their own.” members of the construction com According to Li, starting from the pany and government officials held spring of 2019, each discipline has regular meetings online during the been led by an experienced team pandemic. leader. Green applications such as By the end of every semester, each freshair systems, antibacterial discipline is required to come up tiles, antismog windows and arti with three to five teaching models. ficial stones have been used in the For example, the Chinese depart building, said Zhang Bo, project ment has established five classroom manager. teaching models. According to the district govern They are narrative reading, ment, Qingdao Dongchuan Road expository reading, dissertation Primary School has been expanded reading, classical Chinese reading and now boasts generous space From left: Students from Qingdao Binchuan Road Primary School play on a football pitch. A class of students from the Qingdao Siliu and writing. both for teaching and other activi Middle Road No 3 Primary School practice skipping rope. Because of these carefully ties. Qingdao Guangshui Road Pri designed courses, students of the mary School has built seven new Licang Experimental Primary functional areas that enable stu trician’s toolbox. Since 2017, Licang ters of space and offer 27,000 new mary and middle schools are given Qingdao Zaoshan Primary School. School have achieved great results dents to make the most of their district has built 19 new public places. In addition, noting that the chances to visit renowned schools The district also offers a three in the past four years and parents’ lives. schools and kindergartens and abilities of headmasters and teach nationwide. year training program for new satisfaction with the school have In a building of the Licang offered 13,000 new places for stu ers are key to a good school, the “Since April 2018, teachers from teachers. Among them the core increased year by year, Li added. Experimental Primary School, dents. district government is promoting our school have made six trips to group can study at East China Nor The district also pays close atten there is an internet of things stu It is now accelerating the con strong leadership skills among Xiejiawan Primary School in mal University. tion to student safety on campus. dio. struction of 35 schools and kinder them. Chongqing. Building on its This year, 869 students who The primary and middle schools The facility is designed to help gartens with an investment of 10 Every headmaster should audit impressive debate courses, we applied for the entrance examina and kindergartens in the district are students find everything from sen billion yuan ($1.5 billion). at least 40 lessons every semester, have developed our own courses tion for high school were admitted equipped with an emergency alert sors, oscilloscopes, laser cutting These new schools are expected a local official said. on artificial intelligence and sew to Licang’s high schools, a record system and more than 200 of them machines, 3D printers to an elec to add about 880,000squareme Teachers of the district’s 45 pri ing,” said Liu Yanlin, principal of high. have conducted safety drills. Dedicated Area making the grade by erecting teachers new buildings and focusing on skills
push forth By YUAN SHENGGAO In 2019, the district government 13,000 signed an agreement with Qing Dedicated to promoting a quality enrollment dao No 2 Middle School and Qing educational and balanced education, Licang dao Experimental Junior High district in Qingdao, Shandong places School of Shandong province to province, has spared no effort in have been provided by Licang launch branch schools in the dis advances improving in fields including infra district since 2017. trict. Qingdao No 2 Middle School structure and teaching manage opened in autumn and the experi ment. mental branch is expected to be By YUAN SHENGGAO Since 2017, Licang district has jing and Chongqing, to share expe completed this year, according to built a total of 19 public schools and riences in fields including teaching the district. With more than 30 years as a kin kindergartens, providing 13,000 and school management. The public have high dergarten teacher, Yin Shuwei is a enrollment places. It is investing Liu Yanlin, principal from Qing requirements on the quality of reliable “mother” in the eyes of chil about 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) dao Zaoshan Primary School, said: education, which is a major issue dren and parents. in constructing another 35 schools “Since 2018, some of our teachers in Licang district’s education, said Yin, at the Qingdao Yong’an Road and kindergartens. have toured the quality teaching Su Mingyu, director of the teach Kindergarten in Licang district, was A teacher helps a student with calligraphy at the opening ceremony These are expected to cover an winner Xiejiawan Primary School ing and research office at the edu given a role model teacher award of Qingdao Licang Experimental Primary School. area of 880,000 square meters and in Chongqing, to conduct cation research and development this year. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY create 27,000 enrollment places in exchanges in basic education. center of Licang district. “We take care of children with a bid to help to release the pressure “We have been inspired by the Teaching and research staff love and also receive that back, and who worked in Qingdao Shengping kindergartens, presenting teaching of a “school and kindergarten school’s distinctive courses such as members at the center spend at that is the happiest moment to be a Road Primary school. guidance. crunch”. floral art and debating.” least three days a week to guide kindergarten teacher and a strong “At that time, I often went to the Four years later, she returned to Using its teaching strengths, Through learning the experien teaching plans for schools in the impetus to keep me in this job for 32 school with my mother and wit Qingdao Shengping Road Primary Licang district has focused on con ces of the teaching team at Xiejia district, as part of their effort to bat years,” Yin said. nessed the facility’s expansion and School, launching the “Funglish” ducting training for teachers. wan, Liu said his school has tle for top students, Su said. Yin has worked in several kinder reconstruction,” Hu said. English studio. It organized the In 2018, the district launched a developed creative courses such as The district is also conducting gartens in Qingdao, and became a “I was interested in my mother’s school’s English teachers to conduct project to boost the leadership tailoring and artificial intelli course exploration at its Experi school official at Yong’an Road Kin work on correcting students’ home teaching research and development skills of principals. gence. mental Junior High School. dergarten in 2015. work,” she said, adding that this was and share experiences. The move encouraged a total of In addition, the art team from It is forming a teaching pattern She has shouldered more respon a point that encouraged her to This year, the studio has held 45 local primary and secondary the school designed a puppetry that provides students with tailor sibilities other than teaching: From choose to be a teacher. online and offline courses over the schools to conduct exchanges with course, winning a prize for its made courses. providing a sound environment for The mission of a teacher is to cul postponed school openings due to counterparts across the country in excellence in Qingdao in 2019, These courses are aimed at children’s safety, diet arrangement tivate students and help develop the pandemic. more than 20 cities including Bei according to Liu. developing students’ selflearning to school culture design, Yin said their habits, capabilities and moral A variety of cloud courses and capabilities and helping them find she had to get involved. traits, Hu said. related activities have grabbed stu the fun in learning. Building the kindergarten as a “Children are emotional to our dents’ interests and won applause According to Su, such a move has home and being a motherlike heartfelt work and I am proud to see among parents, according to Hu. helped the district to achieve a teacher in children’s education are a their growth and change,” she said. The studio was listed as a pioneer higher enrollment rate year by goal for the school, according to Yin. She added that her goal is to make teaching practitioner by the local year. She said: “Though there are every child have a great develop education authority. Licang district is striving to sometimes pressure and anxiety ment in English learning. As one of the first districts develop education by focusing on from work and life, children are Hu is devoted to exploring more approved by the Ministry of Educa quality teaching and school con great buffers against them.” English teaching methods, in ways tion to apply balanced development struction, said Wang Xiaoguang, One teacher who is dedicated to such as participating in teaching of compulsory education, Licang Party secretary and director of the education, like Yin, is Hu Xiaomei. competitions and publishing rele district is home to 14 master teach Licang education and sports Hu, an English teacher from vant papers. ers in Shandong province, which is bureau, which aims to “respond to Qingdao Shengping Road Primary In 2013, the teacher was assigned an award for teaching contributors people’s expectations”. School in Licang district, has been to conduct teaching research at the granted by the local government. With Licang’s constant efforts in in the career for more than two dec education research and develop The district said it plans to improving education, the district is ades. ment center in Licang district. increase its education investment in Licang district calls for teacher training to enhance the sure to bring people a sense of Hu said her career was inspired She toured more than 80 local pri fields including teaching incentives relationship between professionals and their students. achievement and confidence, by her mother, who is also a teacher mary and secondary schools and and more infrastructures. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Wang said.