In the dream center, the walls are not necessarily white, but can be painted with the imagination of children's genius; The desks in the classroom are not necessarily side by side, but can be a fortress of fairy tales; Books and the internet are open, and children can get together to explore the unknown world; The podium is bright but low, encouraging rural children to talk to the public. Kan Kan ...
The system was started in the second half of 2007. By the end of August, 240 dream centers (dream spaces) have been built and put into use, covering Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Gansu, Henan, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Xinjiang and Tibet. It is estimated that 400 rooms will be built by the end of 20 1 1, and the number will reach 1000 in the next five years.
Dream course
"Dream Course" is a series of interdisciplinary comprehensive quality courses for compulsory education 1-9 grades, with the concept of "holistic education" and integrating elements such as problem inquiry, teamwork, innovation and creation, environmental protection and emotional intelligence.
The core values of "Dream Course" are "innovation, diversity and tolerance", and the core concepts include:
★ Questions are more important than answers.
★ Method is more important than knowledge.
Trust is more important than help.
The dream course includes three modules: "Who am I?" "Where am I going?" And "how do I get there?" Set up graded courses suitable for 1-3, 4-6 and 7-9 grades respectively.
In "Who am I?" The courses offered focus on cultivating children's self-awareness and better understanding the people around them and the surrounding environment through self-awareness. Module course "Where am I going?" Emphasize expanding children's horizons and imagination and understanding the diversity of life and the world. How should I go focuses on the cultivation of children's multiple skills. We offer courses on professional life and financial management, so that students can learn more about the world around them, know how many careers they can choose, and what efforts and costs they need to pay to choose these careers.
In the design of dream course, we emphasize problem-oriented team exploration and experiential learning through games. Teachers are not only imparting knowledge, but also active questioners and encouragers. Students no longer need to remember the concept of nouns, but grow up in the collision of thinking and the experience of activities.
From grade one to grade nine, a child may spend a limited 300 class hours in this classroom called "Dream Center". We expect this classroom to be the most abundant and full of possibilities in a child's life.
Dream guide
In order to let teachers learn to take the "dream course", True Love Dream has designed a course training system, which we call "dream tutor training". The training system is divided into two parts:
★ Dream Coach Plan
"Dream Coach Program" is a customized training program for first-line rural teachers in "Dream Center" schools. Recruit teachers, college students, corporate volunteers and excellent "dream course" teachers in big cities to become project volunteers on a large scale. After intensive training, we can communicate face to face with teachers in summer, convey the concept of dream course, show the teaching methods of dream course, establish the interpersonal relationship between volunteers and teachers, and help rural children grow up confidently, calmly and with dignity.
★ Dream leadership
"Dream Leadership" training is mainly aimed at the leaders, principals, teaching directors and full-time teachers of the Education Bureau of "Dream Center", with the concept of "diversity, innovation and tolerance" and true love and dreams as the core public goods. The training contents include: a) expanding training, aiming at opening the creative thinking of rural teachers;
B) Show the dream course demonstration class with the demand of showing and sharing educational ideas; In order to meet the demand of more primary and middle school students in poverty-stricken areas for extracurricular books, Shanghai True Love Dream Charity Foundation, together with Tencent Charity Foundation, Xinping Charity Foundation and Economic Observer, launched the "Dream Bookstore" plan around the existing "Dream Center" school network. We will sort out, package and code the second-hand books collected from schools in central cities, and provide schools with 1000 second-hand books, a set of bookshelves, a computer and a computer. By then, we can know the reading situation of students in rural schools in time, and we can also carry out rural education public welfare projects in a more targeted way.
The pilot project was launched in June, 20 10+0 1. The initial sponsors of the project, Tencent Charity Foundation and Xinping Charity Foundation, each contributed 450,000 yuan, and the True Love Dream Foundation contributed100,000 yuan to start the first batch of ***5 1, up to 20 165438+. 20 1 1, it is planned to build 300 factories. The project covers provincial-level areas such as Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou, Henan and Yunnan, among which high-density areas include Sichuan, Gansu and Guizhou. "Dream Grid" is a third-line public welfare product based on the core public welfare product "Dream Center" and the second-line product "Dream Bookstore" of the True Love Dream Public Welfare Foundation. It is a colorful classroom corner. Including a rainbow bookshelf and 100 second-hand books. Such a corner can narrow the distance between books and children to zero. The standardized production of bookshelves and the intensive collection of second-hand books ensure the low cost and high coverage of dream lattice. Let children get close to books at zero distance. The pilot project was launched in September, 20 1 1, and Weibo donated books in cooperation with CCTV's "The First Lesson of School Opening". True Love Dream launched the activity of "Guess the expenses and send them to the grid" through Sina official Weibo. Twenty-five lucky fans were selected and sent to designated schools in nine provinces including Sichuan, Gansu, Guizhou, Hunan and Hubei in mid-September. 230 yuan, including a set of rainbow bookshelves, second-hand extracurricular books 100, and expenses such as maintenance, warehousing and logistics, and personnel salary sharing. How to achieve low cost and high efficiency? "Dream Grid" relies on the network system of "Dream Center" and "Dream Bookstore", focusing on book collection and material procurement, saving the costs of manual sorting, logistics and warehousing. We open "Dream Grid" as an open product to the society, and all institutions engaged in rural reading can carry out secondary development and implementation on the basis of this product standard according to their respective abilities and needs (including independent product names, collection channels, matching of old and new books, additional services, etc.). ), which will effectively promote rural reading in China!