On the side of Shuyuan Avenue, the beautiful water town and the pastoral Qianmo, the jade tree Qiongzhi and the purple and red together contain the antique western Sichuan dwellings, and a picture of the integration of natural ecology and cultural landscape slowly unfolds in front of our eyes~
This is the green bar tree of Sandaoyan in Pidu District, a national 4A-level tourist attraction, and one of the "top ten most beautiful villages in China".
Who would have thought that next to this picturesque and unforgettable beauty, there is the protagonist of our visit today - Chengdu Tianyi High School.
First Encounter: Campus Impressions and Campus Facilities
Although it was the first time we met, the excellent natural environment around the school was enough to lift our spirits after a brief break from the busy city with high-rise buildings.
What surprises us even more is that the campus architectural style of Chengdu Tianyi High School is very compatible with the surrounding environment - the main colors of gray, white and blue plus a small number of eye-catching orange and red, with the garden-style landscaping in the school, will be elegant and quiet silently, and the whole school seems to be hidden between the mountains and rivers.
When we visited the school, it was the school's foreign language activity week, and the students' calligraphy works in English, Japanese, Russian and other languages were exhibited at the entrance of the campus.
The first thing you see when you enter the campus is that you will be amazed by the translucent glass "Wing Bridge", which symbolizes the way to the university.
Imagine how romantic it would be for students to climb high and look far away in their leisure time, accompanied by spring flowers, summer breeze, autumn moon, winter snow, and feel their own growth and success in the alternating changes of the scenery throughout the year~
The accompanying teacher informed us that at this time, the students were running and exercising during the daily recess, so they could go to collect wind first. So we walked through the pavilions and terraces of the school to the standardized outdoor sports field at the back of the school.
I saw that the students were forming an array of classes on the plastic track, with rhythmic music, running forward under the guidance of the flagbearer in front.
In an instant, we were infected by this atmosphere full of youthful vitality: they are sprinting forward tirelessly and enthusiastically, which may be the truest portrayal of hope and beauty~
This energetic look is a bit like you in the past
After the sports field, the students returned to the classroom, and we also came to the teaching building for a tour.
In addition to traditional classrooms, teachers' offices and various administrative offices, the teaching buildings of Chengdu Tianyi High School are also equipped with academic lecture halls, laboratories, reading centers, computer classrooms, and psychological treatment rooms.
But the most distinctive thing in the author's mind is the classroom where the students in the art, music, dance and other specialty classes are located.
- In the art classroom, students fly with paper and pencil to cultivate their own aesthetics in their skills, such as oil painting, drawing, fine brushwork, color painting, calligraphy, etc...... There is a wide variety of works;
- In the music classroom, students listen carefully, find their own colors in the melody, and sing tactfully, the piano sound is melodious, and the orchestra is beautiful;
- In the dance classroom, the students danced and danced, enriching their expressions in the practice, with elegant posture, excellent temperament, and light dancing in pairs.
After the visit, in addition to the shock, I felt that my artistic soul was also ignited by the wonderful performance of the students~
As mentioned above, during our visit, Chengdu Tianyi High School was holding a foreign language subject activity week, and the school specially invited Professor Feng Siwen, a famous teacher from the School of Foreign Languages of Sichuan Normal University, to walk into the campus and carry out face-to-face communication activities with Tianyi students.
At the same time, Wu Xia, a famous teacher of Chengdu Tianyi High School, also prepared a wonderful English open class "On the road" for students in the academic lecture hall.
We are very fortunate to record these materials, it is worth mentioning that the expressions of the students participating in the activity are very calm, and they are not stage frightened at all when answering questions, which also reflects the fact that Chengdu Tianyi High School is extremely rich in teaching activities on weekdays!
Stepping out of the school building, we went to the student dormitory and the school cafeteria.
When choosing a boarding school, these two hardware facilities should be paid attention to, after all, they are linked to the student's accommodation conditions and food level, and are directly related to the happiness of the students.
Chengdu Tianyi High School's student dormitory Yajuyuan is really not the same style as the dormitory of a general boarding school, don't believe it:
It is better to say that the Yajuyuan dormitory and the western Sichuan residence in the Sandaoyan Qinggangshu Scenic Area outside the school have reached an agreement on the style, and the author really thought it was someone's house at first glance (laughs~).
The interior of the dormitory adopts a classic bunk bed, the solid wood color scheme makes the room look very warm, and the wardrobe and private bathroom are the standard equipment of each dormitory. Considering the long average time it takes for girls to wash during peak periods, the school is very user-friendly with four-person rooms for girls and six-person rooms for boys.
Then we came to the Yixiangyuan canteen of Chengdu Tianyi High School, and according to the introduction of the accompanying teacher, we learned that the canteen is equipped with four meals a day for the students, namely breakfast, lunch, dinner and evening meal.
Breakfast is generally milk + staple food (steamed buns, steamed buns, etc.) + eggs, etc., lunch and dinner are generally three meat and two vegetables + soup + fruits/vegetables, and evening meals are generally noodles, glutinous rice balls and other staple foods.
The school will publish the weekly nutritious recipes on the official public account, and the author found that almost every day's dishes are different by browsing, and the quality of this food is really enviable, and put a few official pictures to gluttonous everyone~
School cafeterias
Communication, school profile and further education mode
When we visited various facilities on campus, we also had in-depth exchanges with the teachers, and received a lot of information about the school, such as the strength of teachers, partner colleges, etc., which were also synchronized to parents here~
To put it simply, Chengdu Tianyi High School is a boutique boarding private high school in Pidu District, covering an area of more than 100 acres and accommodating 1,200 students at the same time.
2023 is the first time that Chengdu Tianyi High School will recruit students, and there are currently more than 500 first-year teachers and students in the school, which has great potential.
The teaching staff of the school is mainly composed of famous teachers, backbone teachers and graduate students majoring in normal education, including 4 special teachers, and the proportion of teachers with senior and senior professional titles has reached 43%.
In terms of education and teaching, Tianyi mainly adopts a small-class teaching mode, and each class usually does not exceed 40 students. The class is equipped with dual class teachers, combining the class system with the tutor system to achieve "one-to-one" personalized tutoring for teachers and students.
The school has set up a studio for famous teachers, which is led by special teachers and senior teachers, and has developed a large number of high-quality curriculum resources through in-depth research on curriculum standards, teaching materials and examination directions through intelligent lesson preparation, business training, master-apprentice pairing, teaching seminar month, etc.; Focusing on the students themselves, we established personal learning files, and carried out a tailor-made action of "training the excellent and the poor".
The advantages of this are obvious: the teacher's cognition of the individual differences of students will be clearer, which is convenient for each student to teach according to their aptitude, and truly implements the purpose of Chengdu Tianyi High School - "education for life, so that each student can get full development".
Chengdu Tianyi High School implements a dual tutor system inside and outside the school, in addition to its own teaching team, the school also recruits many famous professors from colleges and universities as external tutors.
External tutors will regularly come to the school to provide educational and scientific research guidance for the teaching team and conduct teacher training. Hold special lectures for students, carry out face-to-face activities for professors, etc. Professor Feng Siwen, who came to the school today, is one of the external tutors.
More than that, Chengdu Tianyi High School also invited education experts, principals of famous schools and university professors who have long been concerned about education reform and development to form an advisory committee, so that well-known experts in the industry can jointly make suggestions and escort for the future high-quality development of the school.
While continuously cultivating in the field of education and teaching, Chengdu Tianyi High School has also formed a mutual aid body for education, scientific research and training with many famous universities in China, aiming to connect the talent training system of high schools and universities.
The school has been awarded the titles of "High-quality Student Source Base School", "Talent Base" and "Student Employment and Internship Base" by the Preparatory College for Study Abroad of Sichuan University, the School of Physics of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan Normal University, the Art Education Foundation of Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and Geely University.
During the subsequent school visit, we also had the opportunity to discuss the school's curriculum system, student training direction, enrollment policy and other issues with Principal Zhang of Chengdu Tianyi High School!
Principal Zhang said that the school's curriculum system is still based on the compulsory courses stipulated by the Ministry of Education, but more attention is paid to transforming the knowledge and theories into students' core literacy.
At the same time, the school will provide differentiated training programs according to the different academic conditions of each student, such as:
- In order to meet the development of students' personality and strengths, the school has set up various types of classes such as cultural excellence classes, art specialty classes, music and dance specialty classes, and sports specialty classes.
- For students who have shortcomings in English, the school has set up elective classes in Japanese and Russian, giving students more opportunities to achieve "corner overtaking" in foreign languages;
- For students who want to study abroad for further study, the school also has special international understanding education and study abroad preparation courses to choose from.
This is also the vision of Chengdu Tianyi High School; Through "multi-path advancement, multi-faceted success, and diversified development", we help students with different learning bases and interests to find a suitable path for them to pursue their studies and realize their dreams of university!
In response to the admissions-related issues that parents are concerned about, Principal Zhang also responded:
The school's teaching goal has always been "low entry and high exit, high entry and excellent exit", and the change in the grades of the first year students of the class of 2023 from entering the school to the end of the semester (see the figure below) also proves that the education of Tianyi High School is fruitful.
This year, the enrollment target of Chengdu Tianyi High School is students who will participate in the 2024 high school entrance examination in Chengdu and whose scores have reached the general vocational integration line in the region.
School address: Sandaoyan Qinggangshu Santuan Road, Pidu District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province
epilogue
At the end of this school visit, the author has been thinking about a question: should education be selective, warm, and humane, or calm, rational, and result-oriented?
In the end, it was concluded that there is no standard answer to this question, and that it will always vary from person to person, and there will always be extreme views. It is said that Chinese is a compromise of reconciliation, but when it comes to the future of the child, everyone seems to be anxious, which is really pitiful for parents all over the world......
However, as far as the author is concerned, he may choose this education model of Chengdu Tianyi High School. As for the reason, it's not that I don't think grades are unimportant, I just want my child to have a few more choices for further education with light in his eyes before he faces the future of twisted flowers~
Of course, this choice must be made by the child himself, and in addition, if he makes a choice, he must be responsible for his own life, regardless of the outcome.
I suddenly remembered Robert Frost's song "The Road Not Taken", and the end of the article is dedicated to everyone!