An
Official Report for the State Education Commission
and the Education Commission
of Shanghai
SIX
ASPECTS IN CREATIVE EDUCATION OF TOP STUDENTS OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE ──An
Experiment Research Report of Three Years' Educating and Teaching of Class4, Senior
Grade Three, Graduation Year 1997, in Shanghai Nanyang Model High School
Abstract
1.The
features of independent cognition are the advantageous basis for top students.
2.Attaching
great importance to the rectification of the weak points in cognition is a prerequisite
for the success of top students.
3.The education of top students should begin
with the codes of conduct, and with building a sound personality
4.The education
of top students entails the education of ideals.
5.The education of top students
should put the stress on the belief that "the interests of the collective and
the country are of foremost importance".
6.The education of top students must
highlight creativity. 1)The
first thing in class activities is the education of subjectivity.
2)The academic
level of the students should be raised in the teaching of courses.
3)Children's
creativity is cultivated through the colorful activities of science and technology.
4)The
students are equipped with the awareness of advanced theories and thoughts.
5)The
students are called on to make constant creations and pursuit of true distinction
in their life. Preface
This
report is a tentative report of the practice of education and teaching for almost
three years (1995-1997). The educational experiments are carried out with the
focus on the research project of the education of creativity of top students in
math and sciences.
Great progress
has been made in the three years' education and teaching. The first progress is
in political ideology. All forty-three students of the class joined the Communist
Youth League. Thirty-eight students submitted their application letters to the
Party one after another, and they also took part in the study group of the Party
constitution. The second field is in their academic performance. Four students
achieved so remarkable scores that they were enrolled by the combination classes
of bachelor, master, and Ph.D. degrees of Shanghai Jiaotong University. Five students
entered the experiment classes of the same university. Three students had scores
good enough to be enrolled by the base class of science in Fudan University, sponsored
by the State Education Commission. Two entered the experiment class in Tongji
University. Three were admitted in the base classes for both arts and science
in East China Normal University. Four more students ere sent directly to the combination
classes of bachelor, master, and Ph.D degrees of East China Normal University.
Altogether 21 students, 49% of the total number, entered the combination class,
the base class and the experiment class. Apart from this, the rest of students
got an average math score of 134, and the physics score of 129, which is also
praiseworthy. The third field is in science and technology. 13 students have formed
a math contest group, and they have won 23 awards, including the first, second
and third prizes. The mini-theses in science and technology of the students have
also won prizes in all kinds of competitions, including the Shanghai Science and
Technological Seminar for adolescents, the Invention and Creation Competition
of the Adolescents, and Yida Invention Competition sponsored by the Jiaotong University.
The
cultivation of the outstanding talents for the 21st century is the requirement
of the era. This report attempts to show people how we carried out the practice
of education and teaching of top students in the three years, and our understandings
and reflections on the education of top students in China. |
