China News Service Client, Beijing, July 15th (Reporter Zhang Ni) Laundry, cooking, tidying the room... will you do all this? In the future, labor class will become a compulsory course for large, middle and elementary schools.
A few days ago, the Ministry of Education issued the "Guidance Outline for Labor Education in Large, Middle and Primary Schools (Trial)". The document clearly states that compulsory labor education courses must be set up in schools, colleges and universities. In this course, students not only have to take the full time, but even the assessment results will be used as one of the basis for graduation.
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What to learn
——Primary students should learn to do laundry and cooking and other housework
What do you want to learn when setting up labor education courses? The "Outline" puts forward different requirements for students of different ages. Let's take a look at what they have:
Elementary school students:
Instruct young students to complete personal items sorting and cleaning, simple household cleaning and garbage classification; participate in appropriate class collective labor, take the initiative to maintain the environmental hygiene inside and outside the classroom; perform simple hand-made, take care of the animals and plants around them.
Instruct senior students to participate in home cleaning, storage and finishing, making simple home-cooked meals, etc., and learn 1-2 life skills each year; participate in campus hygiene, waste sorting, greening and beautification; preliminary experience of planting, breeding, handmade, etc.
middle School student:
For middle school students, the "Outline" proposes that junior high school students should undertake certain household daily cleaning, cooking, and home beautification work. Properly experience the labor and traditional craftsmanship process including metalworking, carpentry, electrician, ceramics, cloth, etc., try simple repairs of household appliances, furniture, electrical appliances, and participate in production activities such as planting and breeding.
In addition to continuing to carry out daily life labor and enhance their self-care ability, high school students also need to choose service positions, experience the real job work process, obtain real professional experience, and cultivate professional interests.
College Students:
In addition to mastering general labor science knowledge and consolidating good daily life labor habits, students in ordinary colleges and universities should also strengthen service labor and consciously participate in the hygiene and cleaning, greening and beautification and management services of classrooms, canteens and campus places.
Carry out service labor in combination with social practice activities such as "three support and one support", college students volunteering to serve the western region, "youth red dreaming trip" and "three going to the countryside", strengthen public service awareness and take the initiative to face major epidemics, disasters and other crises Dedication to work, etc.
Data map: Students make soft clay. Photo by Qu Lixia
How long do you study?
——The average of primary and secondary labor education classes is not less than 1 class hour per week
How long do students have to study every week?
The "Outline" proposes that a compulsory course for labor education should be established in primary, middle and primary schools. Among them, the average primary and secondary school labor education class is no less than 1 class hour per week, which is used for activity planning, skill guidance, practice, summary and exchange, etc., and is necessary to coordinate with general technology and local courses, school-based courses and other related content.
Vocational colleges set up compulsory labor special education courses with no less than 16 hours; they are mainly designed around labor spirit, model worker spirit, craftsman spirit, labor organization, labor safety and labor regulations.
Ordinary colleges and universities should incorporate labor education into professional talent training programs, and clarify the courses they mainly rely on. Labor education modules can be set up in existing courses, and special courses on labor special education can also be set up. The undergraduate level should not be less than 32 hours.
In addition, the "Outline" proposes to arrange labor practices in extracurricular activities. Among them, weekly extracurricular activities in primary and secondary schools and working hours in family life, primary school 1st to 2nd grade is not less than 2 hours, other grades is not less than 3 hours; vocational colleges and ordinary colleges and universities should be clear about the labor matters and time in life Into the daily management of students.
Data Map: Haikou City’s leading students take labor classes, and they clean leaves in front of classrooms and teaching buildings under the guidance of teachers. Photo by Luo Yunfei
Who will teach?
——Teachers and parents share
The issue of who will teach labor education courses is also clearly stipulated in the document issued this time.
The "Outline" proposes to establish a team of full-time and part-time labor education teachers. According to the needs of labor education in schools, the person responsible for labor education should be clarified, and labor education planning, organization, implementation, evaluation, etc. should be carried out to provide teachers with compulsory courses in labor education to maintain the relative stability of the teaching staff.
In addition, we must give full play to the role of faculty and staff, especially class teachers, counselors, and mentors, and use the strength of the Young Pioneers, the Communist Youth League, party organizations, and student organizations to jointly carry out labor education and practical activities. Make full use of parents and local human resources, and hire professionals from related industries to serve as labor practice instructors.
Of course, in addition to teachers, parents also have their own responsibilities in developing children's labor skills.
The "Outline" makes it clear that primary and secondary schools should promote the establishment of a collaborative implementation mechanism that is school-led, family-based, and community-based, and forms a joint force for joint education.
Schools should guide parents to establish a correct outlook on labor through parent meetings, parent schools, community lectures, online media, etc.; clarify the parent’s labor education responsibilities, and allow parents to actively guide and supervise their children to complete family and community labor tasks; schools should be relevant Social practice bases jointly develop and implement labor education courses.
Data map: The students of Jincheng College of Sichuan University came to the school farm. This time their courses were not measurement but farming. Image source: Visual China
How to take the test?
——Incorporate labor literacy into the comprehensive quality evaluation system of students
Finally, the question of how to assess the labor education of students per semester is also clarified in the "Outline".
According to the requirements, the school should incorporate labor literacy into the student's comprehensive quality evaluation system. Based on labor education goals and content requirements, combine process evaluation and result evaluation to improve and perfect the evaluation standards, procedures and methods of student labor literacy, and encourage and support the use of modern information such as big data, cloud platforms, Internet of Things, etc. Technical means to carry out monitoring and documentary evaluation of the labor education process, and play the role of evaluation in educating people and improving feedback.
In terms of usual performance evaluation, it is necessary to cover all types of labor education activities and clarify the assessment requirements for the type, frequency, and time of labor practice in the academic year. Pay attention to the actual performance of students in labor education activities, and analyze and grasp the formation of labor concepts from behavioral performance. Mainly self-evaluation, supplemented by other evaluation methods such as teachers, peers, parents, service targets, employers, etc., to guide students to reflect and improve. To guide students to faithfully record labor education activities, collect and sort related products, works, etc., select representative realism records, and incorporate them into comprehensive quality files, as an important reference for students to appraise the best academic year.
In terms of comprehensive evaluation of the semester, at the end of the semester, based on the objectives and content of the syllabus, combined with the analysis of comprehensive quality files, taking into account the compulsory study and extracurricular labor practice, the labor force, labor capacity, labor spirit, labor habits and quality of labor Comprehensive assessment of literacy development status.
The "Outline" also proposes to establish a credibility mechanism, implement a system of spot-checking of real records, and veto the fraudulent and fraudulent ones in the evaluation of the best performance. Those with serious nature should be dealt with seriously according to law and regulations.
In addition, carry out volunteer star certification in high schools and universities. High school and colleges should use the assessment results as one of the basis for graduation. Promote the comprehensive evaluation results of the semesters as an important reference for students to go to school and find employment.
Netizen: Will the math teacher come to take the labor class?
Many netizens agree with the development of labor education in primary, secondary and elementary schools, saying that it is time for the children who are "indifferent from one body to another" to experience what is labor. Others also gave their own suggestions on what to teach in the labor class:
Image source: Weibo screenshot
But some netizens are worried about whether the labor class can achieve its original intention:
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However, regarding the implementation of the labor education curriculum, the Ministry of Education also emphasized the need to strengthen supervision in the document.
The Ministry of Education requires that local people's governments at all levels and relevant departments supervise the protection of labor education. Supervise and guide the opening rate of school labor education, the order of student labor practice organization, the pertinence of teaching guidance, and the effectiveness of safeguard measures.
The results of supervision shall be disclosed to the society as an important indicator to measure the quality and level of regional education, and as a basis for the assessment of rewards and punishments for the supervised departments and schools and their main responsible persons.
Labor has become a required course, what do you think? (Finish)