The training class goes back, the school goes forward
Facing parents’ doubts about “how to guarantee their children’s performance if there is no training class”, educators in Changsha “look like this and do it like this”
Tianxin District Xiangfu Yingcai Yiqing Primary School takes care of time, and sports are a popular choice for children.Photo by Liu Zhiyong
After-school music interest group at Taiyu Primary School.Photo by Li Jing
During the after-school care time of Lushan International Experimental School, students choose to attend art appreciation class.Photo by Zhong Wuwei
The “Happy Playground” corner of Shazitang Jilian Primary School’s after-school care activities.Photo by Qin Li
Core tips
In July, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the “Opinions on Further Reducing the Work Burden of Students in Compulsory Education and the Burden of Off-campus Training” (hereinafter referred to as the “Opinions”) to comprehensively deploy the “double reduction” work.
For Changsha educators who have been working on “burden reduction” for many years, starting from this semester, “double reduction” has become a prerequisite for all educational behaviors, a summary of past practice, and a guide for future exploration——Changsha The city will strictly follow the requirements of “effective reduction within one year and significant results within three years”, earnestly promote the “double reduction” work, and effectively reduce the burden on the majority of students and parents.
“Double reduction in Changsha” pays special attention to the series of topics, which is to show the current Changsha educators “look like this, do it this way.” Welcome more Changsha educators to participate in the discussion, and join hands to explain the “seeing” clearly and consolidate the “doing”. Contact number: 84899732; E-mail: [email protected].
Yue Xia
The National Day Golden Week just past was the first long holiday after the “double reduction”. In the past, the 7-day long vacation and 5 days in the training class were the “standard equipment” for many children’s vacation time allocation. This year is a big change.
According to the “double reduction” policy, off-campus training institutions shall not occupy national statutory holidays, rest days, and winter and summer vacations to organize subject training. Off-campus training classes are stopped, there are fewer written assignments, and more assignments are in nature, in museums, in cinemas, in sports grounds…
Let education return to its roots, truly solve the “theatre effect”, “advanced education” and “running culture”, truly relieve education anxiety, build a good education ecology, and promote the comprehensive and healthy growth of children-this is the “restricted training order” The original intention.
Regarding parents’ doubts about “how to guarantee their children’s performance without training classes”, educators in Changsha “look like this and do it like this”.
Doubts “Training is cancelled, education will be even more unfair”?
Recently, a citizen of Ningbo left a message to the Education Bureau: It is recommended that the Education Bureau legislate to prohibit teachers from giving supplementary lessons to their children. Behind the absurd suggestion is a “brittle” heart-because someone else’s baby has made up a lesson, so my baby has to make up too.
“You come, we train your children; if you don’t come, we train your children’s competitors.” A well-known advertising slogan from a training organization once caused many parents to fall into the “anxiety” of extracurricular training outside of school.
In July, the “Opinions” were released, and a single stone caused a thousand waves. The strongest response from parents was to tighten restrictions on training behavior. Various jokes about make-up classes emerge in endlessly, showing the doubts and worries of parents about the policy from another side. On the one hand, if there are loopholes in policy implementation and training becomes a scarce resource, it means that children from ordinary families have fewer opportunities to obtain good educational resources, and will it cause new educational injustice; on the other hand, there will be no extracurricular training classes. How to supplement this practical need for in-school and in-class education, and how should educators guide.
The compulsory education training class will stop subject training on weekends, and the teachers will be strictly investigated for illegal participation in supplementary lessons. How do parents feel about this? Parents of students in the compulsory education stage said that they will be suspicious of the “double reduction” policy during the summer vacation, and it may be true now It is time to re-plan “Where will the kids go on weekends”.
View the “training anxiety” of parents correctly
Why should students enter the training class? Deng Zhigang, the principal of Changsha Lushan International Experimental School, believes that the school should face up to the needs of students and should not regard parents sending their children to training classes as “excessive anxiety”. There is often nowhere to consult when there is a problem, so I have to seek help from the training organization. Students with better basics feel that the after-school homework capacity is not enough, and they also go to the training organization to seek supplements. This is an important reason for the current overload of students.”
“Parents and friends will discuss and share the anxiety after the’double reduction’ in various groups. I saw a lot of people’s uneasiness in a parent group a few days ago: Without the extracurricular training class, what should we do! Then, A parent typed out a string of text: What’s the hurry, just follow the school!” Liu Hong, the principal of Changjun Foreign Language Experimental Middle School, said that she praised the parent, but at the same time deeply felt that the school has a great responsibility-the parent Children and children must and can only follow the school! The school must be the first responsible party if the “double reduction” is to bring real results and beauty. After these “cross-border” education and training industries have “cooled off”, how should schools meet the demand for education, and what path should parents follow the school? This is the ultimate requirement for schools.
Meng Xin, the principal of Xiangfu Yingcai Yiqing Primary School in Tianxin District, said that parents send their children to out-of-school training because on the one hand it is because of the “involved” education, and on the other hand, because school education does not provide personalized and high-quality courses. For the “double reduction” to be truly implemented, the school’s curriculum must be improved in quality, so as to be rich, diverse, and selectable. If students’ personalities and talents can be cultivated and developed in school, the need for parents to send students to participate in off-campus training will be reduced.
Extracurricular training is really useful? Wang Liang, secretary of the Party branch and principal of Changsha Yiya Middle School, and a special-grade teacher in Hunan Province, said that many friends asked him whether his children were in preparatory courses. There are several obvious harms in the preparatory study of training institutions: First, it destroys the precious “first sense of knowledge” of students, and destroys the most valuable “logical process” of learning. The process of exploration, the rich feelings in the process, and the The meaning is often more important than the knowledge itself. Second, if the training is over-trained, there will be a phenomenon of’diminishing returns’. Psychological research shows that if the amount of learning required to master a certain knowledge without making mistakes is ‘1’, then the amount of learning is ‘1.5 ‘The effect is the best. If this amount is exceeded, the reward will be’decreasing’. Some children’the more they learn, the more they do not enter’, which is the case. Too much training will suppress the initiative of the students. To sum up, send a baby Tutoring should be prudent. In a certain subject, at certain times, when children need it, it is feasible to make targeted supplements, but we must not blindly believe or rely on extracurricular training.”
Practice in school to let children “eat full” and “eat well”
Principal Deng Zhigang introduced that in response to this situation, the after-school service of Changsha Lushan International Experimental School will first focus on solving this problem and further eliminate the worries caused by “double reduction” to students and parents. “Our school will provide students with different needs. Personalized homework guidance helps students at different levels learn to learn well: expand and upgrade students who have the ability to learn, fill up vacancies for students with learning difficulties, provide targeted guidance and adjust the amount of homework for students who cannot complete their homework on time.”
Shazitang Primary School in Yuhua District created the “Sugar Seeds” Magic School from the perspective of children, and created a “Sugar Particle” after-school service curriculum system in the form of “1+X”. Principal Li Zhen said that the goal of the course is to open up students’ learning space, empower students to grow, and let children have the choice to have fun and grow, and let parents save time, worry and money. “1” is a supplementary course, that is, to guide students to basically complete written assignments in school; “X” is a literacy course, that is, a club course for improving students’ various comprehensive literacy, including a lecture hall for subject culture, etc. “After-school service is the children’s “candy city”. The courses are named with Chinese lollipops, math-to-candies, English QQ candy, sports popping candy, art skittles, music jingle candy, science bubble gum, etc. Disciplinary features activate the motivation of students to learn through learning, and add a touch of learning sweetness and joy to children’s childhood.”
“Parents, please follow the school on the path of returning education to the national curriculum baseline. Parents’ blood and the momentum of subject training institutions actually lead to the content that students need to learn has deviated from the schedule and standards designed by the national curriculum standards. The school has also deviated from the baseline amidst all kinds of entrapment.” said Liu Hong, the principal of Changjun Foreign Language Experiment Middle School. A senior in the education industry once talked about a point of view: the depth and breadth of Chinese curriculum design is not lost at all. School curriculum in any country in the world. If the school can follow the country’s core literacy requirements, put these courses on the ground according to the quality and quantity, and have personalized attention and support to the students, there is no need for parents to go to the tuition institution outside the school.
One of the goals of the “double reduction” is to return learning to the school, to rearrange the main lines and evaluation criteria of education, and to bring education back to a reasonable and normal track. “In this way, I believe that parents will feel at ease and will never use group anxiety to coerce or even direct school education and teaching. Leave professional matters to a trustworthy professional school!” Liu Hong said.
Source: Changsha Evening News