Beijing Children’s Palace adds more than 1,300 high-quality degrees
Yesterday, the spring semester of 2022 started to introduce a batch of high-quality education and teaching projects such as street dance and integration of body and mind
News from this newspaper (Reporter Wu Wenjuan) Yesterday morning, Beijing Children’s Palace ushered in the opening of the spring semester of 2022. The students entered 414 activity groups one after another to start the new semester and new courses. A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned that Beijing Children’s Palace has added more than 1,300 high-quality degrees in the spring semester, offering more than 7,000 high-quality degrees in 49 programs in five categories: art, sports, science and technology, fine arts, and nature and health. Compared with previous years, this semester has introduced a number of high-quality education and teaching projects such as Latin dance, hip-hop, physical and intellectual integration projects (chess, basketball), and children’s agronomy.
“This semester, all programs have added more than 1,300 high-quality degrees. Whether it is expanding degrees or adding programs, it is to meet the needs of children and parents for high-quality off-campus educational resources.” Zhang Jinghua, deputy director of Beijing Children’s Palace, said, Projects added this semester have been carefully considered. Taking the newly added “Small Farmer” project as an example, labor education is provided to students in terms of agricultural skills and agricultural knowledge. Another example is that after the reform of sports in the senior high school entrance examination, the attention of children and parents to sports has continued to increase. In order to meet this demand, Beijing Children’s Palace has added physical and intellectual integration projects on the basis of the original sports such as martial arts, table tennis and basketball, so that children can develop in combination with movement and stillness. “The so-called body-intelligence integration project means that children learn chess for an hour after learning basketball for an hour, so that they can develop a combination of sports and intelligence.”
After adding degrees and courses, are there enough teachers? In this regard, Zhang Jinghua mentioned that the Beijing Children’s Palace has increased the number of teachers through internal exploration and external introduction. For example, the “Small Farmer” project was developed by teachers from the Natural Education Department of the Children’s Palace. At the same time, on the basis of tapping potentials, Beijing Children’s Palace also cooperates with universities and social art groups to jointly explore new projects. Hip-hop, breakdance and ballroom dancing in the new semester are projects in cooperation with Beijing Dance Academy. In the future, the Beijing Children’s Palace will take the Children’s Palace as the main body and integrate various resources to form a “Beijing Children’s Palace +” model, so that more children can enter the Children’s Palace. In addition, Beijing Children’s Palace is currently developing online courses to meet the needs of more students.
A reporter from Beiqing Daily learned that the Beijing Children’s Palace organized all staff to conduct nucleic acid testing before the opening of the school to ensure the start of the spring semester; during the class period, the code scanning temperature measurement was strictly implemented, a one-meter security line was set up, and parents did not enter the building. , Activity room after class, timely and comprehensive disinfection and other epidemic prevention and control measures. At the same time, Beijing Children’s Palace clearly requires students to return to school with “two documents and one form” – “Beijing Children’s Palace Students’ Epidemic Prevention and Control Commitment”, “Beijing Children’s Palace Students’ Parents’ Commitment to Pick Up Children and Safe Self-Protection” and “Beijing Children’s Palace Students’ Commitment to Pick Up Children and Safe Self-Protection” Children’s Palace Student Health Status Monitoring Form” to ensure the health and safety of teachers and students.