Education Reforms in Nomadic Boarding Schools in Tibet
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摘 要：education improvement in nomadic areas is more challenging. Almost all the schools in Tibet are boarding schools that require better management strategies. Through experience, some reforms must be taken in the boarding schools. Well-developed school strategy plan including confirmation with headmaster role and better teaching methodology are keen.
关键词：Tibetan Boarding School; strategy plan, teaching methodology
中图分类号：G622 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1002-7661（2012）23-221-01
I Introduction
Quality education in Tibetan schools is even more vague and problematic compared to urban schools in China. The problem of quality education in Tibetan areas is not a question of whether the university entrance examination to be abolished or not. Especially in the nomadic areas where the population is dispersed widely across grasslands, the reinforcement of quality education is challenging. As a result, teaching is not the only obligation of teachers and the school. Physical care and emotional comfort are two important tasks for the teachers that must be emphasized as well.
II School Strategic Planning
Since education is a long-term strategic goal to fulfill the wellbeing of the community, the school should develop its own strategic plan. The first step of strategic plan is vision and mission statement development. The vision and mission statement will provide a clear direction for the school in the future. The vision and mission statement of the school should not narrowly focus on a test result; it should cover a broader and more comprehensive view. All the stakeholders of the school, such parents, students, teachers, and community members and schools administrators should be the developers and implementers of the school vision and mission statement.
III The Role of Headmaster
The role of headmaster in a Tibetan nomadic school is not clear. It seems the headmaster makes all the decisions in the school even when he doesn’t have much background knowledge of the situation. Headmasters of nomadic schools in Tibetan areas play that role as well. For example, the headmaster teaches, purchases teaching materials and living arrangements as well as managing school personnel. The headmaster should have multiple roles but the decisions and actions should be taken after negotiations with relevant members of the school.
IV Teaching Methodology
Lesson preparation is a mandatory by Prefecture Education Bureaus and County Education Bureaus who will check the lesson preparation daily. The teachers usually copy their lesson plans from the teaching handbook which is published by the textbook. The syllabus should be prepared for the purpose of improving the teaching efficiency rather than a superficial task. The expectation of giving homework is more than making red marks for the officials to check and accept, it should focus on how teachers ensure that students are making progresses. If the lesson preparation and homework arrangements are controlled by teachers themselves, they will have the incentive to be active and innovative with their teaching
V Conclusion
In order to improve the quality education in nomadic boarding schools, some local adjustment which would not violate the big picture of government agenda must be taken.
A democratic agenda cannot be applied, but a kind of decentralized decision making is applicable if the teachers and the community were to become involved. The schools and teachers should not just follow plans passed down from the higher authorities. They should find ways to improve the situation for better local education. The way China is able to supervise all the big activities throughout the country is through the watchdogs assigned by centralized power everywhere, but on the other hand China is inefficient because of the corruptive multilayered complex bureaucratic system. Therefore, if schools are able do more reforms within the school itself that would be instructive to school management and teaching improvement in the future.