Chinanews client, Beijing, September 10th (Reporter Zhang Ni) Today is the 36th Teacher’s Day. There are 17.32 million full-time teachers at all levels and types in China, including millions of rural teachers and nearly one million special posts. Teachers and hundreds of thousands of supporting teachers stick to the most remote, poorest and most difficult areas...

　　In recent years, the protection of teachers' benefits has been concerned by the whole society.

Ensure teachers' salary levels, expand teachers' posts, reduce teachers' burden...a series of favorable policies have been introduced intensively!

Data map.

Zhang Yunshe

Ensure teacher salary!

　　There was a saying in the past, "There are five grains of food in the family, and you should not be the king of children."

Although teachers are called "engineers of the human soul", in the eyes of many people, the benefits and benefits of this profession are not so ideal.

　　However, this statement is outdated.

Ensuring the salary and treatment of teacher groups has received more and more attention from the national and local levels.

　　As early as 2017, 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 Deepening the Reform of Educational System and Mechanism."

　　At that time, it was clearly stated in the "Opinions" that the treatment of teachers should be effectively improved.

Ensure that the average salary of teachers is not lower than or higher than the average salary of local civil servants.

For teachers in old, young, borderline and poor areas, it is necessary to implement subsidies for hard and remote areas, subsidies for work in towns and villages, and live subsidies for rural teachers in concentrated contiguous areas and remote areas.

　　In recent years, the improvement of teachers' salaries has been continuously advancing.

　　In March of this year, the Office of the Education Supervision Committee of the State Council issued a notice to make specific arrangements for the supervision of the implementation of the salary income of compulsory education teachers in 2020.

　　According to the arrangement, from March to July 2020, all regions will conduct comprehensive self-examinations one by one against the content of supervision, covering all counties (cities, districts) in principle; from September to October, the Office of the Educational Supervision Committee of the State Council will organize the Ministry of Education and Finance The Ministry, the Ministry of Human Resources, and the Ministry of Social Security formed a joint supervision team to conduct on-site supervision by listening to reports, consulting materials, on-site inspections, and unannounced visits.

　　It is worth mentioning that the above notice also emphasized that after the supervision is over, the results of the supervision will be reported to the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and provinces, cities, and counties with more serious problems will be held accountable and announced in the main central media.

Data map: The teachers walked across the red carpet and walked into the campus holding the hands of the students, and received salute and blessings from the students.

Zhang Yunshe

Expand the teaching staff!

　　In addition to guaranteeing salary and benefits, nowadays, teacher positions are constantly expanding.

　　Since May this year, six departments including the Ministry of Education have jointly sponsored the 2020 "Hundred-Day Sprint" for the employment of college graduates.

　　Among them, it is clear in the action to enrich the grassroots special plan that the "special post teacher" plan will increase the recruitment scale by 5,000 people, and the recruitment scale will reach 105,000 this year.

Appropriately expand the implementation scale of the "Three Supports and One Support", "Western Plan" and other central grassroots projects.

More than 400,000 graduates will be recruited to supplement the team of teachers in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, and the initiative of "starting the job first and then verifying certification" will be adopted to further strengthen the provision of teachers in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens.

　　At the same time, the qualification of primary and secondary school teachers is also being reformed.

　　According to the "Implementation Plan for the Reform of Educational Postgraduates and Public-Funded Teachers’ Qualifications for Primary and Secondary School Teacher Qualifications" issued by the Ministry of Education in September, colleges and universities enrolling educational graduates and publicly-funded normal students can participate in the reform of the waiver of qualifications from 2021.

　　Institutions of higher learning that implement the reform of exemption recognition should carry out educational and teaching ability assessments for educational graduates and publicly funded normal students in their schools according to the training objectives. Graduates of 2021 and later years who pass the assessment can be exempted from the national primary and secondary school teachers based on the educational and teaching ability assessment results Part or all subjects of the qualification examination.

Data map: College students show their homemade blessing cards to teachers on Teacher's Day.

Photo by Meng Delong

Reduce the burden on teachers!

　　Various inspections, inspections, and evaluations are numerous, and the school assigns various tasks outside of teaching work to teachers... In the past, these have greatly interfered with the normal education and teaching order of the school and added an extra burden to teachers.

　　In order to reduce the burden on teachers, 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 Reducing the Burden of Primary and Secondary School Teachers and Further Creating a Good Environment for Education and Teaching" at the end of last year, stating that the concept of teaching and educating students must be firmly established , Effectively reduce unnecessary interference to primary and secondary schools and teachers, return peace to schools and time to teachers.

　　The above-mentioned "Opinions" clarified that it is necessary to clean up and streamline the existing supervision, inspection, evaluation and assessment items; resolutely put an end to compulsory apportionment of irrelevant matters; effectively avoid arranging primary and secondary school teachers to participate in irrelevant training activities, and so on.

Since then, many provinces have also listed specific burden reduction lists.

Data map: Teachers are teaching students at Jiashan Parents School in Fangshan Township, Zhenyuan County, Qingyang City, Gansu Province.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yu Jing

The title appraisal is inclined to rural teachers!

　　As a gardener who sticks to the grassroots level, the protection of the treatment of rural teachers has also received public attention in recent years.

　　For this special group of teachers, favorable policies have been continuously introduced.

　　In September this year, the Ministry of Education and other six departments issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Rural Teachers in the New Era."

Among them, it is proposed that the professional title evaluation is inclined to rural teachers. For the primary and secondary school teachers who have been teaching in the countryside and difficult and remote areas for a long time, the professional title evaluation relaxes the academic requirements, and does not require thesis, foreign language and computer application ability requirements.

　　In order to deepen the reform of rural teacher management and alleviate the shortage of talents in rural schools, the "Opinions" encourage localities to explore the establishment of a "turnover pool" system for faculty staff to tap the potential of rural teacher staffing.

　　In terms of improving the social status and living conditions of rural teachers, the "Opinions" clearly ensure that the average salary level of rural teachers is not lower than or higher than the average salary level of local civil servants.

Improve the performance-based salary policy, and give appropriate preference to rural small-scale schools, boarding schools, minority areas, and schools in difficult and remote areas.

　　Fully implement the living subsidy policy for rural teachers in concentrated, contiguous and extremely poor areas, and implement differentiated subsidy standards based on schools' hardship and remoteness.

Gradually improve the policy guarantees for rural teachers’ housing, medical care, and assistance, and continuously improve their sense of acquisition.

Data map: A "post-90s" rural teacher organized students to line up to and from school.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Qu Honglun

In ten years, 16.8 million teachers participated in the "National Training Program"!

　　In terms of teacher training, China has launched the world’s largest teacher training program "National Training Program" for ten years, and the central government has invested 17.2 billion yuan in total.

Among them, more than 15.9 billion yuan was invested in the Midwest Project and the National Training Project for Kindergarten Teachers.

　　According to the "National Training Program" Blue Book (2010-2019) issued by the UNESCO Teacher Education Center.

In the past ten years, a total of 16.8 million teachers from 31 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions have participated in the "National Training Program", of which the Midwest Project and the National Training Program for Kindergarten Teachers accounted for 94%.

The "National Training Program" has covered all deeply impoverished counties and rural teachers in impoverished areas.

　　According to statistics, from 2010 to 2014, the "National Training Program" trained more than 7 million teachers, and rural teachers accounted for 96.4%.

Since 2015, the "National Training Program" has concentrated on supporting rural teachers, and has basically achieved full coverage of rural compulsory education schools and kindergarten teachers in the central and western regions.

　　The "National Training Program" has also set up a project to assist rural principals in remote and impoverished areas. So far 13,900 rural primary and secondary school principals and kindergarten principals have been trained to lay the foundation for running every rural school.

　　What's more gratifying is that in recent years, more and more students have applied for teacher education.

　　At a recent press conference of the Ministry of Education, such a set of data was released: In 2018, the average percentage of graduates with the top 30% of college entrance examination scores in the province who applied for teacher majors was 18.3%.

In 2019, this proportion reached 33.4%, with the highest proportions in the two provinces being 55.3% and 49.8%.

This also means that more and more outstanding young students are joining the ranks of gardeners.

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