In the middle of spring, the grasslands in Inner Mongolia gradually turn green. In the blue sky and green space, children are running after frisbees, while physical education teacher Liu Zhiguo is guiding and cheering on. Liu Zhiguo is a physical education teacher at Beijing 101 Middle School. In the summer of 2022, he came to Bayan Hushu Third Middle School (referred to as Bazhong Middle School) in Keyou Middle Banner, Xing'an League, Inner Mongolia, and embarked on two consecutive teaching tours lasting four academic years. 'Loosening Soil and Selecting Seeds': Polishing One Class a Year Before embarking on the path of assisting and supporting education in Beijing and Inner Mongolia, Liu Zhiguo was mentally prepared to actively adapt to the environment. However, his first lesson preparation after arriving at Ba San Middle School still made him deeply feel that' a clever woman cannot cook without rice ': worn gymnastics mats, limited teaching balls, and traditional teaching methods. These not only form a sharp contrast with the teaching conditions in Beijing, but also fail to meet the expectations of local students for physical education classes. Liu Zhiguo is determined to take "loosening the soil and selecting seeds" as the first step in teaching "soft landing". On the one hand, I help the school coordinate more sports equipment and improve teaching conditions; on the other hand, I guide students to master one or two technical projects every semester, so that their physical fitness and knowledge skills can be comprehensively developed. "Frisbee thus entered the field of vision of high school students in Ba San. Liu Zhiguo transplanted the frisbee project to the green field of Ba San Middle School, with two frisbee classes per week. This not only ignited students' enthusiasm for participating in sports activities, but also injected vitality into Ba San Middle School's sports teaching and research activities. In just one year, Liu Zhiguo's sports projects such as frisbee and orienteering not only conducted situational teaching and project-based learning in the teaching and research group, but also flowed to local primary and secondary schools and national fitness venues through media recording, festival activities, and other forms of learning, such as "easy to learn", "strong interactivity", and "cultivating students' awareness of rules and sports skills through entertainment". Irrigation and Fertilization ": Liu Zhiguo, who graduated from Northeast Normal University after two years of intensive farming, is 55 years old this year, but in the eyes of the school's teachers and students, he looks like a young man. Liu Zhiguo had relatively few classes in his senior year of high school, so he took the initiative to take on the role of a driver and spontaneously drove to pick up and drop off students during multiple extracurricular activities. He also donated a complete set of amusement facilities and children's books to the school out of his own pocket, bringing back the joy of childhood for students who need to relax and unwind. Teacher Liu is still the liaison officer of the volunteer teaching team. From the accommodation and travel of volunteer teachers to the exchange and donation of football and ice hockey projects between Beijing and Inner Mongolia, he actively communicates and promotes educational cooperation between the two places Li Tiejun, a volunteer teacher at Beijing 101 Middle School and current principal of Ba San Middle School, told reporters that in August 2024, when the two-year volunteer teaching period ended, Liu Zhiguo applied for an extension of the volunteer teaching and continued to stay on the grassland. Weeding and pruning ": Three years to renew the relationship." Listen to me and thank you, because of you, the four seasons have been warmed... "His deep affection was responded to in the first class after the delayed teaching support. This is the" flash mob "choir prepared by the students for" popular king "Teacher Liu. Liu Zhiguo said that in his more than 30 years of teaching career, he has taken countless physical education classes outdoors, but this "surprise" hidden in front of the teaching building has become a lifelong memory for him. At that moment, he remembered the graduates he had brought out on this grassland. "When Batu was a sophomore in senior high school, he lacked learning goals and motivation because of his introverted personality and moderate performance. I observed that he was extremely cheerful when playing basketball, so I talked to him, encouraged him to strengthen physical exercise, participate in club competitions, and accumulate confidence and confidence. Eventually Batu realized his college dream as a sports expert.". Waiting for Flowers to Bloom ": After four years, realizing a dream, Liu Zhiguo made the growth and development of his students his own dream. He used his wisdom and patience to" wait for flowers to bloom "on the grassland thousands of miles away from Beijing. Without experiencing this kind of life, one would not know the hardships involved; If you haven't experienced this hardship, you won't know the joy in it; If you don't have this kind of happiness, you won't know its purity Liu Zhiguo said. During his volunteer teaching period, Liu Zhiguo was awarded honors such as "2023 Xing'an League Teaching and Education Model", "Excellent Rural Teacher", and "Excellent Volunteer Teacher". These are vivid annotations of his dream of teaching as a volunteer. (New Society)