In the name of "Home," embarking on a new journey! Jiyuan Experimental Primary School conducts training for new teachers

On March 26, the spring air was thickening. In the conference room of Jiyuan Experimental Primary School, a new teacher training themed “Integrating into the Family Culture of the Experimental Primary School, Joining Hands to Create the Future” took place as scheduled. This was not an ordinary meeting, but a warm journey home, a deep dialogue about growth, responsibility, and inheritance.

The training commenced under the gentle yet powerful moderation of Vice Principal Wen. She elaborated on the school spirit of “Being Practical and Striving for Strength” and the educational philosophy of “Nurturing Thoughts, Pursuing Greatness,” articulating the connotation of the “Experimental Primary School Family” culture. From the initial 7 classes to the current 128 classes, from 47 teachers to a family of 280, behind these numbers lies the entrepreneurial journey of the school from nothing to something, from small to large, from weak to strong. She conveyed a simple yet firm belief to the new teachers: treating the school as a family is the way to establish deep roots and nurture individuals well.

If cultural interpretation is a spiritual baptism, then the experience sharing by two outstanding teachers serves as tangible samples of growth. Teacher Miao, in her speech titled “Crossing Boundaries, Growing, Integrating,” recounted her transition from a “sports student” to a “language person,” her evolution from a “stepmother” to a “real mother” as a homeroom teacher, and her journey from an “outsider” to a “local.” The stories about learning from others, catering to students’ interests, and the heartfelt class rituals brought smiles and occasionally misty eyes to the attending teachers.

Teacher Li, in her presentation titled “Entering the Mountains, Seeing the Mountains, and It Is Still the Mountains: My Educational Cubed Experience,” shared her fifteen-year journey from a special post in the mountainous area to a suburban primary school, and then to the fertile ground of the Experimental Primary School. She reminisced about her rebelliousness and confusion when she first entered the profession, narrated the breakthroughs and comebacks after taking over the “troublesome class,” and shared the warm journey of growing together as a research group leader. “Don’t be afraid to take on a hot potato,” “Change ‘I can’t’ to ‘I’ll give it a try,’” and “One person walks fast, but a group walks far,” these three simple phrases articulated her deepest insights from her teaching journey.

The sharing by the two teachers made the “family culture” no longer an abstract concept, but rather materialized into late-night lesson preparations, heartfelt activities, and friendships that uplift one another.

In the subsequent feedback session, a randomly selected representative of the new teachers emotionally expressed, “Today I truly understood that the ‘family’ of the Experimental Primary School isn’t just a slogan on the wall, but the solid support of our seniors guiding us forward hand in hand.”

In the concluding speech, the school leaders encouraged everyone: to be passionate, capable, responsible, and warm-hearted good teachers of the Experimental Primary School, to unite people with the cultural concept of the “Experimental Primary School Family,” to use cultural integration to solve personnel consolidation challenges, and to help every new teacher move from “emotional resonance” to “conceptual awareness.”

This training did not involve high-handed preaching, but rather sincere dialogue and a clash of minds. It eliminated barriers for the new teachers, helped them find belonging, and further solidified their original aspiration of fostering virtue and nurturing people in the context of the “Experimental Primary School Family” and the “Motherland Family.”

Education is a warm practice, and Jiyuan Experimental Primary School is nurturing every seed of education here with the warmth of home, allowing it to take root, sprout, and eventually grow into towering trees. (Contribution: Chen Min)

Editing: Lü Chao