Feel the magic of "whole-person beauty" - impressions after entering Yuncheng International

? It has been a month since school started. Yesterday, I saw a few students’ thoughts and feelings written by the head teacher after arriving at Yuncheng International. I suddenly felt a little regretful: My son should also write one during the National Day. I I believe that he must also have many unforgettable experiences to write about. Every weekend, watching him come home with a smile on his face, greeting every family member warmly, and watching him gradually become serious about his homework, I thought maybe he would be transferred from the key primary school in front of my home in Xi'an to Yuncheng International. It started a novel and extraordinary journey for our family.

? Children going to school is the source of many families’ troubles. My son Dahe’s entire elementary school education was more like a nightmare for my family, with reprimands, blames, and hustle and bustle filling every day. On the one hand, he has no fear, no empathy, no collective consciousness, and does not follow the rules. Disobeying lectures and making trouble in class are commonplace for him. He came back every day and said he was doing homework. When I checked after an hour, I saw him secretly reading a book, but he only wrote one line in his homework. In the QQ group of the class every day, the teacher publishes the list of children who are late and do not turn in their homework, and he is included almost every time. The most annoying thing is that we saw him late again and again and thought he went out too late. As a result, the teacher gave us feedback: he arrived at school early, but did not enter the classroom. He only went to class after seeing enough on the playground and exhibition stand. He was indifferent to the teacher's punishment and other methods. It has been five years, no matter what, there is no way to change my attitude towards learning. Thinking of the pressure of being promoted to junior high school, I, as a mother, feel exhausted and miserable. On the other hand, he is also a precocious young man with great curiosity. He has read a lot of books and has accumulated extensive scientific knowledge especially. He has a natural thirst for knowledge, and is particularly focused and obsessed when he encounters a field he likes. So after being unable to reverse his learning situation, we parents also began to reflect: Is the existing teaching model really not suitable for this child? Can we change our approach to raising this child?

So, I began to pay attention to the new field of education. At the beginning, I learned about the Waldorf philosophy. During the summer vacation when my child was in third grade, I visited all the Waldorf schools in Xi'an and even sent my child to a Waldorf summer camp. However, I feel that I cannot fully accept the Waldorf education system and some concepts. "It's better to be still than to move." Until there are no concepts and schools that I trust more, I think it's better to let the children learn to adapt within the system.

? One day in May this year, I went to a friend’s house as a guest, and this friend was very concerned about new educational concepts. She asked me if I had heard of Nanming Education, and told me about the concept of "whole person beauty". I instantly felt like I was "searching for him a thousand times in my dream". When I got home, I searched "Nanming Education" and "Shanxi Yuncheng International School" on Baidu. The next day, I searched Moments and got in touch with several friends who knew about "Nanming Education". The more I understand, the more I like it. Isn’t this the educational concept I am looking for? I can't wait to go to Yuncheng International to see her true face. Soon, I learned that Yuncheng International School had a mid-term parent-teacher conference, and my child’s father and I went to attend it together.

I remember that on the train there, I read a lot of articles about Yuncheng International School. This made my blood boil and I wanted my children to receive such a good education immediately. The child’s father is more rational. He reassured me that since we have seen so many good ideas, we should look at more shortcomings this time and maintain an objective and fair attitude. After all, for a 12-year-old child who has never left home, Leaving Xi'an, where the educational environment is pretty good, and going across provinces to go to boarding school in Yuncheng is something that needs to be done with caution. After we arrived, we attended the parent-teacher meeting held by Wei School. To be honest, although the sincerity and uprightness of Wei School left a deep impression on us, when everyone mentioned the shortcomings of Yuncheng International, a new education concept school, in the face of exam-oriented education, I felt thrown at Put on a basin of cold water. After all, if your children do not go abroad to receive higher education, the domestic college entrance examination is still the only way to go. Especially students like us who cross provinces will face many practical problems. But it’s here. The train took off at around seven o’clock in the evening, and the parent-teacher meeting ended at just after four o’clock. With the extra time, let’s get to know this school better.

That day was a Friday, and children of all grades were waiting at the gate to be picked up by their parents. We randomly communicated with the children and listened to their feelings about going to school here. After chatting with more than a dozen classmates, our feelings completely changed: every child is so sunny, no matter whether he is good at talking or not, the children are all generous and share their clubs, classes, and activities with us. Favorite canteen, favorite classroom, teacher’s office…. Talking to the children here, you can clearly feel that they are not as depressed as children in traditional schools. Later, we communicated with Principal Li and the dormitory teachers who were in charge of the junior high school by chance. The simplicity, down-to-earth spirit and love for the children they conveyed infected us again, making us believe that there are such teachers and classmates. , this school is really not bad.

Before the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, we took Dahe to Yuncheng International again. This time, on the one hand, it is to take the entrance test, and on the other hand, it is also to let the children have an intuitive understanding of the school.

It was noon when we arrived. In the restaurant, the children lined up in an orderly manner to help themselves to meals. There was no teacher to maintain discipline, but few people were making noise or wasting food. The food in the restaurant is also very good. I remember my snack foodie said loudly after finishing the meal: I want to go to school here! During lunch break, we walked around the classroom and looked at all the children’s homework posted in the corridor. The general feeling was that there were many books, the class had bookshelves, and each child’s drawer was filled to the brim with all kinds of books. Although the children's homework on display may be good or bad, they are all neatly posted for people to visit. Dahe especially liked the posted biology homework - diagrams of the human body's organs. He said that if he came to school, he would also draw those diagrams well.

? There was an episode during the interview, and sometimes I thought that maybe there is a relationship between people. The teacher who received us was young and her surname was Sun. At first, I thought she was doing administrative work. But as the conversation progressed, I was surprised by Teacher Sun’s understanding and control of children’s behavior assessment, psychological activities, and then I realized that she was also a class teacher. It's better to come sooner than later. Teacher Jiaoxia, I'll leave one of my naughty children to you!

? It will be summer vacation soon. After this summer vacation, I have begun to clearly feel that Yuncheng International School is different from previous schools. I began to think that quality education will be too easy for children. After this summer vacation, I am vaguely worried that my children will not be able to keep up with teaching. The class is open and the homework is sent in: read through 100 chapters of the original work of "Water Margin", learn to write comments and make mind maps; check in English every day; a set of "Talking about the History of China" by Yi Zhongtian; read through "The Biography of Franklin"; read "The Biography of Franklin" repeatedly "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy... Throughout the summer vacation, the teacher was basically online, always supervising the children to check in and study. Although Dahe was still not used to it, he stumbled and managed to complete the homework. It can be said that the learning tasks and quality of this summer vacation exceeded any of his previous summer vacations. The most important thing is that I see children basically doing these things happily and enjoying themselves.

? We and our children have been looking forward to it, and finally the start of the school year has come, and the Sunshine class has all gathered together. At the opening ceremony, Teacher Sun asked the children to read "Your Name", hoping that in the near future, every student's name here will become a shining name. Watching Dahe grabbing a book and reading, he said goodbye to us without raising his head. "Can the teacher control such a child?" "Can he abide by school rules and regulations?" We left the school with reluctance and anxiety.

In the first week, Teacher Sun posted a lot of pictures and videos, and we all looked for him in them carefully. When I saw Dahe's familiar face, I also felt his happiness and relief. After returning home from class in the first week, the whole family felt that he had become gentler. He would occasionally get angry, but he immediately knew how to control himself. He even learned to care about others. When he saw his father was sweating, he knew how to wipe his sweat with a tissue and took the initiative to turn on the air conditioner. What a surprising change. But from the feedback from the dormitory teachers and Teacher Sun later, I learned that this kid really had constant problems in the class as expected.

? On the first day of class, my boy ignored the teacher’s reminder and ate slowly in the cafeteria. In the end, he was ten minutes late. Teacher Sun did not criticize him, but just asked him: Does the high-speed train in Xi'an start when everyone is on board, which is different from Yuncheng's departure on time? He quibbled: Teacher, because I eat slowly, I always have to eat before I can be energetic in class. Teacher Sun is not angry: Yes, you are right. If others eat quickly because they have two mouths, I don’t blame you. But I also saw that my classmates also eat with one mouth. So how do you explain it? Since then, the child has never been late again, and has got rid of his bad habits for many years. When the teacher told me, I was really happy - Monkey Sun finally met Tathagata Buddha.

? Dahe has not played much with his friends since he was a child, and he is not very good at getting along with others. In his later words, he hoped to get other people's attention, so he talked endlessly, stayed up in the dormitory, disrupted classes, and caused public resentment for a while. Teacher Xue in the dormitory taught him bit by bit and explored the methods and standards for educating him; Teacher Sun held a class meeting to guide the children to reflect on their tolerance and help to him from a collective perspective. The child accidentally fell and his leg was swollen. The teacher took him to the hospital, and his classmates in the dormitory helped him buy food. The lights were turned off at night, and the classmates even gave him cold compresses over and over again with cold water. These beautiful qualities and friendly environment are all healing for him, allowing my slow child to slowly start to spread the awareness of caring for others. This is Yuncheng International School. Only with these concepts of whole-person beauty can we begin a truly new education.

When Teacher Sun distributed the results of the month written by the children, almost every child wrote about their experience of studying "Water Margin", and everyone discussed and analyzed their understanding of the main characters. He also wrote that after studying Gibran's "Prophet" course, he had his own ideas about what "love" is, just like Dahe came back and said: Mom, our class is amazing, the poetry can be covered in philosophical categories. The importance of self-thinking is emphasized here, and teachers also respect children's personalities and interests. For example, if a child likes biology very much, the biology teacher asks him to help make specimens. Da Heke was so excited now that he would go to the teacher's office to make specimens during every class break.

Because he was too focused on making specimens, which sometimes affected the class, the teacher made an agreement with him and asked him not to be late for class, and he happily accepted it. Dahe especially likes chemistry. What surprised me was that after he asked clearly about the class time for chemistry in the third grade of junior high school, he asked Teacher Sun to run the class. Teacher Sun actually agreed after Teacher Sun asked him not to delay handing in his homework. The child is so happy that he is always excited when he calls me at night. The chemistry class he has been thinking about for many years has finally been taken and he can still understand it. I feel that my children are suddenly helped on their way to independent learning of chemistry. Of course, last week I was ordered to stop running because I didn't hand in my homework on time. Looking at the child's embarrassment, I found that such an education without reprimands is really beautiful! On the first morning after returning from the National Day holiday, his father woke him up. He said in his dream: Wait a minute, hurry up, hand in your Chinese homework! My father and I laughed so hard. You know, throughout elementary school, his classmates and teachers were chasing him for homework. I never thought that he would be dedicated to collecting homework.

? Children still have many shortcomings, and their self-control is still far behind. But in just one month, he has shown many gratifying changes. I am very grateful to have met Teacher Sun and Yuncheng International School. I often feel that teachers are like fairies holding magic wands, with the magic power to turn stones into gold. But the actual magic is poured out by the teacher's love and care. Only after a few limited communications with the teacher did I find out that the head teacher gets up at six o'clock and takes care of the children from about six o'clock until the children go to self-study at about nine o'clock in the evening. She also continues to correct homework and prepare lessons, and often goes to bed at noon. It is precisely with teachers like this that we have a group of children who have made great progress in just one month.

Last night, the teacher sent a screenshot of the conversation with the dormitory teacher, because many boys returned to the dormitory and were chasing after each other to do their homework, which made the teachers confused. You know, not so long ago, many children often failed to hand in their homework. My kid also went from never turning in homework to getting B's on homework, and now he's starting to get A's. In just one month, have you felt like Harry Potter's "Magic Academy"?

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What is the beauty of "the beauty of the whole person"? The beauty of the course is that it nourishes children

in an all-round way, allowing every child to learn to think for themselves and not follow what others say; if they have interests and hobbies, they can go on stage to give speeches or sing songs; respect the nature of every child, Take advantage of the situation and support... It's really beautiful. I'm grateful to have encountered this new education.

Although we met for the first time, we felt the majestic power---it's not just about assessing results, it's about making every child a better version of themselves! "Believe in the seeds, believe in the years" and wait for the flowers to bloom!