Not long ago, a unique "Rural Revitalization Achievement Tasting Meeting" was held at Hangzhou West Lake Vocational High School (hereinafter referred to as "West Lake Vocational High School"). Eight exquisite dim sum, tea-related Western food, distinctive homestay design... This tasting meeting not only showed the results of the students, but also received the affirmation and feedback of experts in the industry, but also echoed the product needs of the enterprise, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.
As a state-level key vocational high school and high-level secondary vocational school construction unit, West Lake Vocational High School continues to use vocational school resources to inject vitality into the local regional economy, and has embarked on a pragmatic path of cultivating compound talents and empowering rural revitalization and hematopoiesis.
"From point to surface" to fully empower the countryside
West Lake Vocational High School is located in the Zhijiang National Tourism Resort on the Qiantang River, surrounded by tourism and leisure industries, of which small and micro enterprises are mainly operated.
Cooking is the trump card of Westlake Vocational High School. From the beginning of this professional student using holidays to go to "farmhouses" and homestays to help cook, the service to the countryside quietly began. They combine tea with cooking to create a special cuisine.
Dozens of refreshments created by West Lake Vocational High School have injected new vitality into rural catering.
24 solar terms refreshments, eight cold and ten hot tea feasts... Relying on the school's cooking master studio, West Lake Vocational High School combines the unique West Lake tea culture to create a cultural food product. West Lake Vocational High School also participated in the establishment of the Zhejiang Provincial Dim Sum Snack Professional Committee, collected and sorted out 1,000 local dim sum snacks, established a "local special dim sum snack library", and productized and standardized local dim sum. Through competitions and visits, establish a "special catering tourism talent pool", improve the influence of folk dim sum artists, and promote the development of the local catering industry.
In addition, the school will also fully connect the hotel management, e-commerce, architectural decoration, accounting majors with the local industry, and open a tea art and tea marketing major this year to serve the local tea economy. Ding Lingli, vice principal of West Lake Vocational High School, introduced that every Tea Season in March and April, students will be deeply involved in tea picking, roasting tea, tea art performances, tea selling, etc. The school regularly holds homestay operation planning and design competitions, and students fully enter the homestay research and creation to solve the needs of the homestay.
Students walked into The Tea Farm Village Homestay in Hangzhou's Xihu District, ready to integrate "tea elements" into the design of the homestay.
In addition to helping to create "one village and one product" such as "Digital Sixiang", "Gourmet Sixiang" and "Cultural Sixiang", Zhang Decheng, president of West Lake Vocational High School, is focusing on promoting the new plan, "We will enter the rural cultural auditorium, open intangible cultural heritage classes, inherit intangible cultural heritage skills, do tea art performances and tea art training, enrich rural culture, drive rural tourism, and attract talents to start a business." ”
The students' tea art performances with cultural charm are well received by homestays and hotels.
In addition to enterprises, the school has also established a "rural revitalization alliance" with the West Lake district government, township institutions, district and county supply and marketing systems, and vocational schools along the Qianjiang River such as Lin'an, Tonglu and Taizhou, to play a linkage function and push the revitalization of rural areas from point to point to depth.
Talent training to open up the "second pulse of ren dou"
"Compound talents are the core of revitalizing the countryside." In Zhang Decheng's view, vocational education must be combined with the development of local industries in order to cultivate talents in social needs. Local small and micro enterprises are dense, fierce competition, calling for talents to be "one specialty and multiple abilities".
Westlake Vocational High School first promoted the high degree of integration between majors in the school, laying a theoretical foundation for "cross-border talents". Students are free to take other professional courses across classes and disciplines. The school also opens a variety of extended clubs to enhance students' comprehensive literacy.
The practical development of students is extremely important. "Only by really going to the front line can we find out what the compounding capabilities the market needs." Ou Yuting, the head of the teaching and research team of the tourism major, gave an example, such as water quality affecting the color of tea soup, the requirements of customers are different, and the proportion of tea and water should be, all of which students need to understand from practice. "It is not enough to brew, the 'cultural story' behind it must be expressed."
To this end, West Lake Vocational High School changed the traditional "5 + 2" model, implemented the "tidal learning mechanism", and followed the off-peak season of the industry, and implemented the real-life full immersion field exercise for all employees.
Students go deep into the front line to stir-fry tea by themselves and quickly improve their practical skills.
The comprehensive quality of students is changing with each passing day. Xu Shaosheng, a student who went to the homestay to perform the long-billed pot technique, practiced cultural interpretation, customer service, tea sales and other skills. He went from the initial nervousness, shyness, and panic to the end, to the hand, to the end, to be independent, confident and generous.
Self-confidence came up, and the students were enthusiastic about going out. Teacher Liang Ganleng, director of the West Lake Vocational Higher Education Department, watched the changes in the children all the way, "From the initial resistance, to now when there is a service, more than 200 people have signed up." ”
After the external comprehensive ability exercise, back on campus, cooking students Li Nian and Zheng Zhang did a big thing. In November last year, the two were upgraded to the owners of the "Hangzhou Famous Snack Restaurant" on campus. This snack shop, which is provided by the school and operated by students themselves, is officially opened. From the loss at the time of taking over to the monthly turnover of 30,000-40,000, they only took less than half a year.
At every meal, the student-run Hangzhou snack bar is crowded.
The two of them led more than 30 student employees, one in charge of production, one in charge of production, the other in charge of finance and personnel, and the cooperation was close. "We got up at 4 a.m. every day to prepare breakfast, learned to solve the problem of competition in the same industry, learned to control production and save costs, learned to build a system for training, and learned to unite and cooperate without giving up." Li Nian cherished his own harvest and strengthened his belief in starting a business after graduation.
As early as 16 years, West Lake Vocational High School introduced enterprises to establish a jiashang baking college of more than 1,000 square meters to teach students "double teacher co-guidance", and now the new four-star standard training hotel on campus is about to be put into use, which will add a one-stop training place for students of the school's five majors.
In the past three years, teachers and students have won nearly 200 awards in various skill competitions at the provincial level and above, and culinary students have won the "Seven Consecutive Championships" in the National Skills Competition. Graduates are 100% employed, and unit satisfaction is as high as 98%.
"Vocational education is a type of education, in the future we must combine training and education, continue to do a good job in academic education, pre-vocational and post-employment local talents integrated cultivation, give full play to the important role of secondary vocational colleges in rural revitalization, and cultivate more complex 'local talents'." Zhang Decheng was full of confidence. (Wang Ping)
Author: Wang Ping