Cultivate the pillars of ＂chewing the roots of vegetables and doing great things＂

Make a little progress every day.

　　　　-Ge Jun

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Ge Jun, Ph.D., master tutor, President high school affiliated to nanjing normal university, adjunct professor of Nanjing Normal University, editorial board member of Journal of Mathematics Education and Bulletin of Mathematics, vice chairman of Jiangsu Middle School Mathematics Teaching Professional Committee, vice chairman of China High School Education Professional Committee, deputy editor-in-chief of high school mathematics textbook (Jiangsu Education Edition) and core member of writing group.

I met Ge Jun, the headmaster, on an afternoon in March. At that time, affected by the epidemic, high school affiliated to nanjing normal university, Jiangsu Province (hereinafter referred to as "the Middle School Attached to South Normal University") had not yet started school, but the bright sunshine and warm air made the campus of this century-old school still full of business. Before the students arrived at school, Ge Jun was still busy, and complicated administrative affairs split his time into a pile of pieces, but he had long been used to it.

Delaying the start of school due to the epidemic has made the "senior three parties" who are struggling to prepare for the college entrance examination feel nervous, and Ge Jun is inevitably anxious. However, everything is all right. The excellent team of teachers and students in the middle school attached to South Normal University gave him the confidence to handle this sudden crisis. After working in this school for 8 years, Ge Jun continued to write about the glories created by the former principals, and also responded to the challenges brought by the new era and new environment, including the epidemic. For everything, he is as confident, firm and full of hope as ever.

　　　　He is a "math emperor" and a famous headmaster.

Compared with many high school principals, Ge Jun’s career is a bit special. In 1985, he was admitted to the School of Mathematical Sciences of Nanjing Normal University. After graduation, I stayed in school and became a math teacher. In the early 1990s, Ge Jun began to pay attention to the mathematics test questions in every Jiangsu college entrance examination, and made a great effort to study mathematics education by linking universities and middle schools. In 2003, he was appointed as the principal of the experimental school affiliated to Nanjing Normal University, a private middle school, and later served as the vice president of the College of Teacher Education of Nanjing Normal University. In 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2010, he participated in the proposition work of the mathematics paper of Jiangsu college entrance examination for four times. Because of the college entrance examination, Ge Jun unconsciously became "online celebrity", and netizens called him "the Emperor of Mathematics", while candidates nicknamed him "Uncle Ge". In 2012, Ge Jun ushered in a turning point in his career and became the head of the middle school attached to South Normal University.

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Ge Jun provoked the not easy burden of the middle school attached to South Normal University. His experience as a principal in a private middle school enabled him to face all kinds of difficulties and challenges encountered by the school with ease. It is worth mentioning that many principals will inevitably alienate themselves from the teaching business after becoming the "number one", but they have a special liking for middle school mathematics, which makes Ge Jun a maverick. He is not only the core member of the senior high school mathematics textbook (Su Jiao Edition) compilation group, the deputy editor of the new curriculum standard senior high school textbook (Su Jiao Edition), but also the editorial board of the core periodical Journal of Mathematics Education and Mathematics Bulletin in the field of mathematics education. To this day, he still goes deep into the front line of teaching and serves as the training coach of the Olympic Mathematics in the school, and his students have achieved remarkable results. Eight years later, it was found that the university scholars who had been engaged in research in the ivory tower had long been comfortable in the post of high school principal; And the "Mathematics Emperor" who has a strong passion for mathematics teaching is still working hard in his favorite field.

Chew the vegetable root and do great things.

Some people say that "a good principal is a good school". Ge Jun has reservations about this statement. "The extent to which a school can develop depends more on the teacher team and the external environment of the school than the actions of the principal." Ge Jun told reporters that the Middle School Attached to Nanshi Normal University has a long campus culture and an excellent team of teachers and students. What the principal has to do is to make the school run better on the original track and cultivate more talents for the country and society.

What is "talent"? The answer given by the middle school attached to Nanshi Normal University is "chewing the roots of vegetables and doing great things". This motto, put forward by Li Ruiqing, a modern educator and principal of Liangjiang Normal School, has been talked about for more than a hundred years. Ge Jun also has his own interpretation of this-"Chewing the roots of vegetables not only means being able to endure hardships, but also means having the spirit of exploration and the quality of humility and low-key; Doing great things means having leadership, creativity and being down-to-earth in the world. "

Children in the middle school attached to South Normal University never lack opportunities to suffer hardships, such as "Pedestrian Action". This is a characteristic activity that the school has been insisting on for 19 years, and it is also one of the activities of the school’s will training course-senior one students need to walk around Nanjing for 31 kilometers. Children in the middle school attached to South Normal University have never lacked a stage to cultivate leadership and creativity. Each semester, there are more than 80 elective courses, more than 60 student associations, and special international discipline competitions, scientific and technological innovation competitions, and leadership talent training competitions. Diversified courses provide opportunities for the development of every student.

In July 2019, more than 700 freshmen who just entered school received a special "science box", which contained experimental manuals, flashlights, protractors, car models, cardboard, sandpaper, microscopes and other strange things. Everyone is different. Students need to complete a difficult experiment and write an investigation report according to the instructions in the experiment manual. More than 700 science boxes cost the school hundreds of thousands of yuan, but Ge Jun is very cheerful, because it is a beneficial activity to cultivate children’s spirit of research and exploration, and will be carried out every year in the future.

After staying in the middle school attached to South Normal University for a long time, Ge Jun paid more and more attention to the cultivation of students’ virtue and character. In May 2019, at the China Recruitment Consultation Meeting, in the face of many junior high school students and parents who came to consult, he put forward the "Ten Cautions" for enrolling students in the middle school attached to Nanshi Normal University, including "Those who don’t do housework, be cautious; Parents who instigate their children to disobey school rules should be careful; Parents who cooperate with their children are dishonest, be cautious; Don’t like readers, don’t be a pen reporter, be cautious "; Wait a minute. This shows his viewpoint of educating people. He hopes that every student in the middle school attached to South Normal University can know how to respect others, understand others and learn to put themselves in other’s shoes. As the saying goes, only those who know how to respect others can learn to care and be grateful, have a sense of responsibility and truly "do great things".

To be "slow" and "diffuse", you have to be "slow" and "man"

Teachers in the middle school attached to South Normal University once joked that when listening to the work assigned by President Ge, you must concentrate on keeping your brain running at a high speed, otherwise you will not be able to keep up with his rhythm. However, Ge Jun, the headmaster who is used to being quick and efficient, knows the truth that education needs to be slow: respecting students’ nature needs to be slow, inspiring students to think slowly, and making students truly become pillars of "chewing vegetables and doing great things", and even more so.

In teaching, Ge Jun, who has been a math teacher for many years, likes to "build a ladder" for students, which has gradually become his requirement for school teachers, that is, "question serious". In his view, students need guidance and teachers need to take step-by-step questions to help students climb the peak of exploration step by step. And each student’s learning situation is different, which requires teachers to build ladders with different progress for each individual, some need to be faster, while others need to be slower. "This is an ideal state. In reality, teachers can’t be perfect, but I will expect them to keep working in this direction."

In recent years, under the leadership of Ge Jun, the Middle School Attached to South Normal University advocated "general reading" for all students, and made great efforts for it. "General reading" means expanding reading for each subject. Ge Jun believes that this can enhance the height, depth and breadth of students’ research on problems, promote the integration of various disciplines and enhance students’ comprehensive thinking ability. "For example, a peach blossom, you can study ancient poetry from the perspective of literature, its growth characteristics from the perspective of biology, and it can also be studied from the perspective of history and geography, so that your mind can be completely opened. This is’ Man’."

In order to make the implementation of general reading "full of confidence", since 2018, the annual fund for purchasing books in the library attached to Nanshi Normal University has increased from 400,000 yuan to 600,000 yuan. Librarians also set up mobile bookcases between the first floor of the laboratory and the teaching building, and each class set up a book corner. All books are uniformly equipped, managed and regularly updated by the library. General reading course is also listed as the first of the three school-based compulsory courses, and students must complete certain reading tasks and obtain corresponding grades.

If "slowness" and "slowness" belong to the ways and means of education, then "tendancy" and "manness" are the growth states that Ge Jun hopes students will show in their high school and even in their future learning environment. "’vine’ means full of hope, high growth, perseverance and flourishing; And’ man’ means enriching because of learning and appreciating the beauty of life. " For Ge Jun, this is his biggest dream in education for many years, that is, to promote students’ lifelong development.

China Education News, April 22, 2020, 6th edition