In Hong Kong, these teachers not only visited the Hong Kong Museum of History, Golden Bauhinia Square, Horizon 100 Observation Platform and Taiping Mountain, but also visited Hong Kong Ocean Park and had face-to-face exchanges and discussions with three professors from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I visited the aircraft provided by Hong Kong Airlines at Hong Kong International Airport and had close interaction with pilots and flight attendants in the engine room and cockpit.
It is understood that this activity is to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland and promote academic and cultural exchanges between the two places. At the same time, it also recognizes the contribution of rural teachers and principals in the mainland to rural education.
Look at Hong Kong through the eyes of students.
Liu Yuhui, winner of the 20 15 Ma Yun Rural Teacher Award, said before going to Hong Kong, "Hong Kong is the place I yearn for. There are some introductions in the textbook. Speaking of the text about the return of Hong Kong, my blood is boiling and my classmates yearn for it. But my students and I are from the countryside and have never been to Hong Kong. The description in this paper can only be limited to pale imagination. This time, I want to be the eyes of the students and personally appreciate the beautiful scenery and developed civilization of Hong Kong. When I come back, I will tell my students these real experiences and help them plug in the wings of going out of the countryside, traveling all over the motherland and going to the world. "
At the beginning of this delegation named "Four Days and Three Nights Experience Group of Hong Kong Academic and Cultural Exchanges of Ma Yun Public Welfare Foundation", when many rural teachers filled in the reasons for declaration, their original intention was to let students know about Hong Kong different from textbooks, experience different cultures and education, walk in the old streets of Hong Kong with a history of 100 years, and experience the scenes on TV on behalf of students when Hong Kong returned to China.
When it comes to reunification, we have to mention the Golden Bauhinia Square in Hong Kong. 1997, to commemorate the return of Hong Kong, the Central People's Government presented a Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia sculpture. This sculpture is called "Bauhinia Forever Blooming", which means that Hong Kong will be prosperous forever.
Twenty years later, rural teachers stood in the Golden Bauhinia Square, watching the sculpture of Bauhinia shining with golden light in the sun, as if crossing to 1997, witnessing the 20-year history of Hong Kong's return with Bauhinia.
"As a teacher, I suddenly feel that Hong Kong in the textbooks I used to describe to my students looks so pale and powerless! Because I always think that Hong Kong is the dream of a rural teacher. Forever in another world. I have never seen it, and I may never see it. " He Lingling, winner of the 20 16 Ma Yun Rural Teacher Award, said that she not only saw the present, but also felt the history of 20 years ago. "I want to go back and tell those lovely children in the depths of the mountains: the bauhinia statue in Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Square is really golden, magnificent and inviolable!" ?
Visit the cockpit of an airplane
It is understood that these teachers from rural areas rarely have the opportunity to travel far, let alone fly; Although children studying in the countryside all dream of being pilots, they have never seen an airplane at close range.
In order to let teachers and principals share more aviation knowledge with children in the new semester class, Hong Kong Airlines specially arranged an airplane experience and a visit to Hong Kong International Airport.
When boarding the plane of Hong Kong Airlines, the captain introduced the basic situation of the plane. The crew took each teacher to experience the cockpit, and the flight attendant showed the teacher around the plane facilities such as the kitchen.
Visiting the Hong Kong International Airport made teachers understand the system and operation of the airport. From the central control center of the airport to the passenger center of the intermediate field, accompanied and explained by the airport staff, the rural teachers saw the working scenes of the center staff, learned about the work of the airport team and learned more about air flight. ...
Face to face collision with a university professor.
For rural education, left-behind children are the main body. The psychological characteristics of left-behind children and how to help them grow up better are what rural educators have always wanted to understand and learn.
With the support of the School of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Wu specially invited professors from the Department of Social Work of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and associate professors from the Department of Applied Social Sciences of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to share their academic research results on adolescent psychological problems with rural teachers of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
What factors will affect the psychology of teenagers and children? Zhang Zhiwen shared the psychological research of children with teachers, while Wu Qiaobing talked with teachers about the mental health of young students, especially the mental health of floating and left-behind children, around resilience and social capital.
Not only that, the two professors also acted as a "think tank" for rural teachers, patiently helping to analyze their problems and giving suggestions on the nature behind students' behaviors in different situations.
"After face-to-face communication with experts, I was deeply touched. Children need correct education and guidance to make them grow better! " Zhu, the candidate principal of the 20 16 Ma Yun Rural Principal Program, believes that this is what he advocates.
As Ma, winner of the 20 15 Ma Yun Rural Teacher Award, said: "As rural teachers, what will our changes bring to every student? I found the answer in Hong Kong. It is a prerequisite for students to have good literacy. It is the process of teaching students to work hard, and becoming a useful talent with students is the ultimate goal! "
That is to say, it commends rural teachers and principals, and makes teachers increase their knowledge, killing two birds with one stone. This kind of activity is meaningful.