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Huize County "One Village, One Preschool" Project Annual Summary and Exchange Meeting in July 2021

Source:互满爱人与人国际运动联合会(瑞士)云南代表处Date:2021-08-30 09:44:05Click:635

On July 10th, 2021, the Huize County "One Village, One Preschool" Project Annual Summary and Exchange Meeting was held in China Railway No.3 Kindergarten.

Michael Hermann, Chief Representative of the International HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Movement (Switzerland) Yunnan Representative Office,  Zeng Liqiong, Education Consultant of HPP and the former Deputy Director of the Pre-school Education Office of Yunnan Provincial Education Department, Xiong Guanfa, Head of the Education Section of Huize County Education and Sports Bureau, Luo Rujing, the staff of HPP project service center, the project team of Huize County, the directors of all the public kindergartens in Huize County, 14 leaders of central schools covered by the project and 28 primary school leaders and representatives of preschools and teachers attended the meeting.

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Group photo of participants

This meeting reviewed and summarized the development and existing problems of preschools during the project.

Since the project start in 2019, the preschools had been supplemented and improved in the aspect of hardware (toys and teaching aids and other facilities): arranging play corners to innovate the class room environmen; training teachers to improve their professional knowledge and skills; paying attention to the joint education of family and kindergarten in daily teaching activities and improving the relevant parenting knowledge of parents.

However, there are also problems in the development. According to the specific development direction in the implementation of the policy of "One village, One preschool", the management method of the project for preschools is different from that of kindergartens under the local education department. The preschools face common rural preschool problems like primary school type management and top-down blackboard teaching.

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Children of preschool

At the beginning of the meeting, Xiong Guanfa, Head of the Education Section of Huize County Education and Sports Bureau, introduced the policy and development of "One village, One preschool" in detail, requested that each central primary school should reasonably allocate teachers to "One village, One preschool", establish urban and rural pre-school education teaching and research teams, improve the enrollment rate of "One village, One preschool" and include preschool education results into the school performance assessment.

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Xiong Guanfa, Head of the Education Section of Huize County Education and Sports Bureau, is delivering a speech

In order to enhance everyone‘’s understanding of HPP and its projects, first Michael Hermann, Chief Representative of the International HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Movement (Switzerland) Yunnan Representative Office, introduced the organization and then the Deputy Project Manager introduced the local POF project’s 2 years methodology and results to everyone.

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Michael Hermann, Chief Representative of the International HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Movement (Switzerland) Yunnan Representative Office is introducing the organization.

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Liu Chunyu, the Deputy Project Manager is introducing the project.

Taking this opportunity, the project also invited Zeng Liqiong, a leading preschool education expert in Yunnan Province, and Zhao Xuemei, Director of Huize County NO.1 Kindergarten, to share with everyone on the topics of Appropriate Education for Children and Accurate Positioning and Characteristic Development.

Zeng Liqiong accurately interpreted what is appropriate infant education from the perspective of social development, bringing new ideas to all leaders and teachers present. According to the analysis of the current situation of rural kindergartens, Zhao Xuemei explained how to think about the development direction of kindergartens and how to reasonably plan the assessment methods of preschool teachers.

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The meeting

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Zeng Liqiong, a preschool education expert in Yunnan Province is sharing

 

The participants highly praised the two experts' explanations whose speeches also gave us a new understanding of the purpose and methods of preschool education. Given the knowledge points learned this time, preschool teachers said that they would rethink their roles and positions and better address problems encountered before so as to promote the development of rural preschool education on the road of specialization.

Some teachers said that such eye-opening training is beneficial and rare, waiting for a new chance in the next semester.

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The meeting

Through the successful holding of the meeting, we have a clearer understanding of the policy of "One village, One preschool" and the future development of preschools.

The significance of the "One village, One preschool" project in Huize County is to cooperate with the local education department to promote the implementation of the "One village, One preschool" policy and provide high-quality preschool education services for children aged 3-6 in remote rural areas.

Each summary meeting is making us better moving forward and with everyone's joint efforts we will make sure to promote the further development of rural preschool education in Huize.

 

Projectintroduction:

“One Village, One Preschool” and “Pre-primary Class Turns into Preschool” Projects is a pilot policy of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education in the field of preschool education. It is hoped that the existing preschool classes could be changed into independent pre-classes/schools, and the pre-classes/schools will be set up in large administrative villages, so as to gradually realize the preschool education layout of “One Demonstration Kindergarten per county, One government-run kindergarten per Township, One Preschool per One village”. Huize County is one of the pilot counties. After preliminary communication and field visit and research, Yunnan Representative Office of the Federation for Associations Connected to the International Humana People to People Movement (Switzerland) cooperates with the Education and Sports Bureau of Huize County to assist them in training the teachers employed under the policies of “One Village, One Preschool and Pre-primary Class Turns into Preschool” Project. It mainly trains and supervises the teachers in terms of knowledge, curriculum management and teaching, to change the teaching method of “primary education” in preschools, to improve the teaching quality. In addition, provide teacher training room, management toolkit, teaching videos and other related tool materials. On-site supervision and visits to early childhood education sites to provide hardware funding support for preschool classes. Expand rural preschool education coverage and improve the quality of education and teaching so that more children can receive quality preschool education.

Yunnan Representative Office of the Federation for Associations Connected to the International Humana People to People Movement (Switzerland) cooperates this project with the Educationand Sport Bureau of HuizeCounty.

This article only represents the views of the author and not the views or positions of the donor.

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