Educator Sukhomlinsky once said, “if there is only school but no family, or only family but no school, we can not undertake the detailed and complex task of shaping people.”
In order to make the school education (five days a week) and family education (two days a week) work at full capacity, and to realize the positive educational value of “5 + 2 > 7” namely to link home and school, we held the parents’ meeting of SUIS Qingpu on September 27 and 28, 2021, academic year as scheduled.
Children are the biggest “investment” of parents in the world. Every parent pays special attention to their children’s study and life at school. Parents’ concerns and inquiries are everywhere on the campus.
During the parents’ meeting of the primary school department, Lu Huiwen, general president of Xiehe education group, as the keynote speaker, brought a speech with the theme of “family education needs high-quality parents’ company”, and discussed how parents and schools can better cooperate to give high-quality company under the double reduction policy and five managements. Although there is no universal recipe for family education, there are methods to follow. In her speech, President Lu proposed that high-quality company is to create a field of ability, draw a frame of behavior, and set aside a door for communication. President Lu emphasized that the “company” of parents should be dynamic, that is, the time and space, spirit of parents and children should be the same, and the “high quality” should also be dynamic, that is, parents should constantly adjust themselves to match the growth needs of children. If parents want to give their children high-quality company, they should not replace their children’s autonomous behavior, do not interfere with their children’s peer behavior, and do not force their children’s thinking activities. At the end of her speech, President Lu expressed her hope that all parents and the school can have common ideas, trust each other, communicate in time, and work together to create a better tomorrow for their children.
In addition to the homeroom teachers’communication with the parents about students’ daily performance, learning, discipline and campus social networking, the teachers from the bilingual group and the foreign teacher group introduced the courses of this new academic year to the parents in the form of a video, and the teachers of all subjects also entered the class to communicate with the parents.
Chinese teachers starts with the good habit of learning Chinese, from solid, effective, standardized and orderly classroom teaching to rich, colorful, flexible and innovative cultural activities, so that parents can understand a mother tongue culture course with the characteristics of Suis Qingpu, which not only maintains the traditional advantages of Chinese, but also continuously innovates “grounded literacy and teaching in fun”, We hope that parents will work with us to improve children’s comprehensive cultural literacy.
The mathematics teachers shared with parents “how to train children’s autonomous learning ability and nine mathematics learning ability under the double reduction policy.” The introduction of the lower grades started from students’ interests and habit cultivation, showing children’s learning status and progress since the beginning of school. The middle and upper grades shared strategies to help students’ mathematical thinking with the goal of autonomous learning and mathematical thinking cultivation.
The English teachers gave parents a more comprehensive understanding of English from the aspects of course introduction, learning objectives and activities, home-school communication, and so on. At the same time, they shared with parents how to cultivate children’s good learning habits and reading habits; and how to improve children’s learning ability efficiently with low burden under the double reduction policy.
In SUIS Qingpu, we hope to form a joint force of education through frequent family-school communication, to achieve our common goals and hope, and to help achieve a better tomorrow for the children.