He Yigang: "I want to show hope to Shanliwa."

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? He Yigang is instructing the students to do experiments. File photo reporter Jiang Yunlong

Chengkou County of Chongqing, located in the depths of Daba Mountain, is one of the most remote counties in Chongqing and the only county without highway in Chongqing. He Yigang was the party general branch secretary and principal of Gaowang Junior Middle School in Gaoguan Town, Chengkou County.

"to enable our children in mountain areas to enjoy high-quality education without going out of the mountains, this is the educational dream in my heart." The simple headmaster once wrote this sentence in his diary. After 23 years of teaching, his life was finally fixed at the age of 41. He died of overwork and a heart attack. "he brings hope to education in poor mountainous areas." That's what the locals say about him.

At present, China's rural compulsory education covers 110 million students, but the contingent of rural teachers is still weak. Take the primary school stage in Chongqing as an example, the number of teachers in rural areas is far from enough, and some villages are even less than one class and one teacher. These teachers are mainly elderly teachers over the age of 50 and new teachers in recent years, and they are very mobile. Chongqing has big cities as well as big rural areas. The terrain in rural areas is complex and steep, and some students have to climb mountains and mountains for more than an hour from home to school. At present, there are 939000 left-behind children in Chongqing, including 589000 primary school students and 349000 junior high school students, most of whom lack parental care and supervision.

As a native of Chengkou, he Yigang has a deep feeling for education in backward mountainous areas. More than 10 years ago, he explored the "hierarchical asynchronous teaching method", making three sets of teaching plans for three types of students and teaching them in accordance with their aptitude.

"there was no multimedia equipment at that time, so teacher he used potatoes as teaching aids and cut them into geometric shapes." Lin Li, a Chinese teacher at Gaowang Junior High School, still remembers teacher he's teaching innovations such as "interesting Tangram" and "interest teaching method".

In terms of management, he Yigang is also bold in innovation. In 2003, he served as the political and educational director of Xiuqi Junior Middle School, carrying out the reform according to the actual situation of the mountain school.

The township middle school is not a pure land, and young people often bully students near the school. Some parents are afraid that their children will be bullied and support their children to bring controlled knives into school. In a vicious circle, many students have no intention of studying. He Yigang prescribed the right remedy to the case. In view of the unhealthy atmosphere outside the school, he docked with the local police station to carry out "jointly building a campus with the police and the people." the vicinity of the campus gradually became clean. Inside the school, he launched "Operation Zero." Head teachers, hostel managers, security guards and other irregular, random spot checks on the dormitory. "in order to put it into practice, we got up at 6 o'clock in the morning and went to bed at one or two o'clock in the evening." Li Qing, chief of the security section of Xiuqi Middle School, said.

In addition, he Yigang also carried out the activities of "democratic formulation of class rules and self-management of discipline" throughout the school, allowing students to do their own work, self-management and self-service. Slowly, the school finally looked like a school, and its scores ranked among the top three in the county. Many of these measures introduced more than 10 years ago are still being used in primary and secondary schools in Chengkou County.

As a national poverty-stricken county, Chengkou has a deep degree of poverty and a wide range of poverty. In Gaowang Junior High School, the proportion of left-behind children is as high as 60%, and many of them come from poor families. In 2001, he Yigang began to explore the establishment of a care and support system for poor students and left-behind children.

He first tried to launch a new model of boarding management for rural children, ranging from the folding of bedding to the placement of toothpaste toothbrushes. In those years, he Yigang lived near the school. Sometimes the school has no electricity or water or the boiler is broken, and the resident students have nothing to eat. In order not to let the children go hungry, he took the children to his home for dinner. "there are twenty or thirty dolls at a time." His wife Li Yunqing said.

In addition to giving education and love as much as possible, he Yigang also helped many poor students. Wang Jingping, who was admitted to the post of Chengkou County this year, lives in Xingtian Village, Dongan Town, Chengkou County. his parents are sick and his family is very poor. In addition to taking money to subsidize him, he Yigang often encourages Wang Jingping. "We should not only teach them knowledge, but also let these mountain babies see hope. When they are well, their next generation can really get rid of poverty. " This is what he Yigang said to the school teachers.

Just the day before his death, he Yigang was still telling Wang Jingping's junior high school head teacher Wang Kejiang that Wang Jingping had to pay 6000 yuan a year for tuition while on the job, and his family would certainly not be able to afford it. "he said that although Wang Jingping was no longer in our school, he asked me to take the time to go to my job and ask the school to waive her tuition fees. He said that if it didn't work out, he would figure out the tuition fee. " Wang Kejiang did not expect that this became his last wish.

In fact, he Yigang has already had a focus in his body, but he conceals his illness from everyone. He always said: school has just begun, there are too many things in school, wait until the past few days are too busy. Unexpectedly, this busy, he did not stop, until the teacher found lying on the bed of his dormitory, no longer breathing.

After he Yigang died, his colleagues cleaned up his belongings. On his desk, he Yigang had not yet had time to distribute the five documents signed the afternoon before he died. On the handwritten materials, the personnel changes of each class were clearly remembered, and the campus inspection log was recorded in detail all day.

"before, he said that he had to take his parents out to play during the summer vacation, and the old man had never been far away in his life. As a result, he was busy during the summer vacation, and later he said that he would spare a few days for the National Day. " Recalling this, Li Yunqing waved his hand and could not go on.