As an old powerhouse in the domestic football, Shandong Luneng Football Team has dominated the top Chinese football league for many years. The team's success is inseparable from its mature youth training system, which has cultivated a large number of excellent players for the team and even Chinese football as a whole. "Luneng Manufacturing" has become a business card for Chinese professional football. In order to let the children "play football with intelligence and play smart football," this year, Shandong Luneng Football School has conducted in-depth cooperation with the academic service team of Hailiang Education Group. Through the intelligent classroom, the young players can improve their football skills while not neglecting their academic courses, thus comprehensively improving the players' overall quality.

Finally met, the children of Luneng Football School!

The children of Luneng Football School and the online teachers from Hailiang Education Group

On November 30, the children of Shandong Luneng Taishan Football School (hereinafter referred to as Luneng Football School) experienced a unique cultural class – online teachers from Hailiang Education Group came out of the screen and communicated face-to-face with the children in the classroom.

Upon seeing the teachers, the students were delighted – the Chinese teacher led the children to understand the principles through games; the math teacher conducted a "pass the parcel" game review in the class, and the children participated enthusiastically with high spirits; in the English class, the children interacted courageously with the teacher with proficient spoken English; the science teacher led everyone in interesting experiments, and the students listened attentively and eagerly wanted to explore the results...

Hailiang Education Group's science teacher demonstrating interesting experiments

The children were so excited because this was the first time since the start of the classes that they had seen their teachers in person. In July this year, Hailiang Education Group and Luneng Football School launched in-depth cooperation, providing high-quality teaching research resources and teacher training support to Luneng Football School.

In the 2018-2019 autumn semester, Hailiang Education Group provided language, math, English, and science courses for the students in grades 3-6 at Luneng Football School. For the intelligent classroom, a dual-teacher large screen was equipped, allowing direct interaction between the teachers and students of Luneng Football School through a video and audio acquisition system, providing a classroom experience similar to on-site teaching.

Football prodigies to "play smart football with intelligence"

Established in 1999, Shandong Luneng Football School is a veteran football youth training base in China, where it has been dedicated to the development of youth training for nearly 20 years, supplying a large number of excellent players for Chinese football.

In the eyes of professionals, the demand for intelligence in high-level sports competitions is as important as physical fitness. With the development of football education, other domestic strong teams' youth training systems are also catching up, and Luneng Football School is facing challenges beyond its football training system, such as teaching systems. "In terms of teaching, the challenges we face include the needs of our teachers themselves and the need to adapt to changes in the training system. For example, with more and more matches being played now, our teams have to train and compete abroad for up to 9 months. If we neglect the quality education due to emphasis on football training, the players we cultivate will be incomplete. Reform starts from this point," said Liu Jingwei, Vice Principal of Luneng Football School and former team leader of Luneng, in an interview with Football Report.

The Principal of Luneng Football School, Mr. Liu, hopes that the young players can "play smart football with intelligence." These children on the green field must grow up to be outstanding players, not only with strong athletic abilities, but also outstanding mental qualities and brilliant minds. These are qualities that must be learned and cultivated from an early age and cannot be neglected.

Mr. Liu said, "The key is how we handle the situation where our children are training and competing abroad for a long time. With various events of the Chinese Football Association, the Football School League Cup, and studying abroad, our children may be away from school for a long time. On the one hand, we have assigned teachers to accompany the team, requiring a teaching teacher for more than 3 days domestically and more than 7 days abroad." Therefore, finding suitable cultural classes for the children of the football school is particularly important.

After gaining a deep understanding of Hailiang's corporate culture and educational philosophy, and experiencing the rich teaching products of Hailiang, Shandong Luneng Football School and Hailiang reached a 5-year cooperation—Hailiang utilized the dual-teacher live streaming platform to integrate high-quality teaching resources into Luneng Football School, allowing the children to enjoy better educational resources.

Principal Liu of Luneng Football School experiencing Hailiang's dual-teacher system

Comprehensive improvement of the quality of small football players, joint efforts

Designing a cultural literacy course system for the next generation of Chinese football, and improving the comprehensive quality of students at Luneng Football School with high-quality teaching services is a significant responsibility for the teachers of Hailiang Education Group.

Relying on Hailiang's many years of fully proven educational experience in classrooms across the country, Hailiang Education Group has provided 7 online teaching teachers and 3 offline classroom guidance teachers for the children, as well as multiple project managers and product managers to ensure interactive teaching in the classroom. It also has a professional technical team to support the smooth operation of the dual-teacher intelligent classroom hardware and software.

To enhance the students' English communication abilities, Hailiang Education Group has introduced high-quality foreign language dual-teacher courses for Luneng Football School, broadening the international perspectives of the young players. To ensure the best quality of every class, the main lecturers carefully prepare the teaching materials and communicate extensively with the school's regular teachers before each class, striving to provide the children with a high-quality classroom experience. After two months of classes, the intelligent education classrooms have been universally recognized and loved by the students and teachers of Luneng Football School.

As a result, the cultural class learning of the young football players has been guaranteed while they are away for matches and training. "This year, we recruited 12 teachers, including 7 graduate students. After cooperating with Hailiang Education Group, we are using tablets, computers, and other systems to directly connect to Hailiang's educational system for synchronous teaching," said Principal Liu.

Students watching an English dual-teacher class while away for a match

"Inspiring interest, cultivating habits, and shaping character" is the educational philosophy that Hailiang has always upheld. The intelligent classroom allows children to truly grow and progress in learning, broaden their horizons, and improve their learning interests and efficiency. As Secretary Tan of Luneng Football School said, "Everything is for cultivating players who are both physically and mentally healthy. We hope that every child we cultivate not only plays well, but also becomes a talented and well-rounded individual with high cultural, intellectual, and emotional intelligence."

By introducing high-quality global resources and teaching philosophies, Hailiang Education Group relies on its core teaching and research capabilities to continuously optimize the supply of subjects and teachers, enhance students' overall subject literacy and learning abilities, and provide comprehensive solutions for vocational education courses, thus helping to continuously improve the teaching efficiency and quality of vocational schools.