Opinion Express
Asking parents to mark homework is not only due to the teacher's ethics
In recent days, many provinces and cities have issued a ban on homework correction by parents, calling for some teachers to stop the behavior of asking parents to correct homework.
As soon as the ban came out, there was cheers.
This shows that asking parents to correct homework has already triggered public anger, but the parents are unable to resist. Now that the education administration department has taken action, the problem seems to be solved.
However, calm down and think that this paper ban actually only solves a problem.
The deeper problems behind the parents' correction of homework are still intertwined and deep-rooted, and they cannot be solved overnight.
Most people think that asking parents to correct homework is just a matter of irresponsible behavior and a question of teacher ethics, because the teacher transfers the duties that should belong to him on to the parents.
It is true that it is natural for teachers to correct homework and is part of the job. Moreover, correcting homework is a professional activity that requires considerable professional skills and experience, and not all parents can be competent.
What's more, there are still many parents who don't even have time to correct their homework.
These principles are like people having to eat and dress, simple and common, no teacher does not understand.
And some teachers do not mark the homework by themselves, and let the parents make corrections. It is not just that these teachers are lazy, tend to be happy and unwilling to do more work, but because:
Utilitarian education and teaching concept dictates.
Many teachers have always believed in the question sea tactics, not only doing a lot of exercises in the classroom, but also daily practice, class practice, homework after returning home, mechanical repetition, day after day.
In the eyes of these teachers, the tactics of the sea of questions can make perfect practice and quickly improve grades. As for the art of teaching, the laws of education, and the physical and mental health of students, they can ignore them.
Therefore, in order to maximize the effectiveness of the title sea tactics and make the tide of the title sea rise again, it is necessary for parents to participate, and the parents' correction of homework has become a strategic move of the title sea tactics.
All kinds of cumbersome and demanding assessment systems in the education field dictate.
There is no need to say more about the heavy workload of students. The performance is that the amount of homework after class is seriously exceeding the standard, and the reason why the teacher has to assign a lot of homework is for the hateful and cute evaluation indicators.
The average score, excellent rate, passing rate, passing rate, performance and other evaluation indicators have always been a few big mountains on the teachers' heads, making the teachers exhausted and miserable.
In order to dazzle the evaluation indicators, it will naturally take up students' after-school time, and in order to maximize the benefits, the parents must naturally be used, and parents' correction of homework will naturally become a great weapon.
Schools take on too many functions other than education.
Today's schools, in addition to teaching, also undertake a number of social functions. Many activities that schools should not participate in and tasks that should not be completed have gradually extended their tentacles to the campus.
All kinds of knowledge contests, all kinds of surveys and investigations, etc., are coming in one after another, frequently boarding teachers' work schedules.
Regardless of whether these matters are dealt with carelessly or taken seriously, it will definitely take a certain amount of time. Naturally, teaching time cannot be guaranteed. Learning tasks that cannot be completed become extra work for parents.
For example, a few math problems that should have been completed in class had to be saved for homework.
The above is the deep motivation behind the parents' correction of homework. To truly solve this problem, the author believes that these efforts must be made persistently:
Clarify the boundaries of home and school responsibilities.
Schools and families each have the responsibility of educating students.
When it comes to teaching students to learn cultural knowledge, the school is responsible for it, and it is unshirkable. It should not transfer its own responsibilities to the family, which includes correcting homework.
The responsibility of the family is that parents should also control their children's homework and study, but not to teach knowledge like a teacher, but to create a good homework and learning environment, and urge children to complete the homework on time and in quantity, but not to correct the homework.
It's not that parents are not allowed to correct the homework, and the children's homework has nothing to do with the parents.
We cannot go from one extreme to another.
Establish a correct view of homework.
The role of homework can certainly consolidate new knowledge and look back on old knowledge, but it can only be built on a moderate and moderate basis. Excessive homework will not only fail to achieve these effects, but will also make students weary and affect their physical and mental health.
The learning tasks that can be completed in the classroom, the learning activities that can be implemented in the school, there is no need to squeeze students' time after class, even if they need to be controllable.
The amount of homework is controllable, and the workload of the teacher is controllable, so that parents do not need to correct the students' homework.
Let education return to education and give teachers sufficient teaching space.
Teachers’ daily work is to teach, educate, and impart knowledge. Although schools can cooperate with the society to undertake some functions, they should be few and refined. The premise is that they do not occupy too much teaching time and waste teachers’ valuable school working time. The purpose is also to promote education.
The campus should not be flooded with too many activities unrelated to learning.
The teaching time and teaching energy are guaranteed, and there is no need for too many extracurricular homework to make up for the lack of classroom teaching time, and parents will relax.
Improve teaching level, efficient and high-quality teaching.
Assigning homework and checking homework is nothing more than a means to understand the effectiveness of teaching. Therefore, means cannot be an end.
This requires teachers to strive to improve their teaching level, use superb teaching art to achieve the goal of teaching and educating people, assign less homework, or even complete the teaching task without assigning homework. It should be the pursuit of every teacher.
There is little or no homework, and there is no need for parents to correct homework.
A ban can certainly curb the misbehavior of parents to correct homework from the source, but if you don’t work hard on the underlying reasons and move the real thing, letting parents correct homework will only change the vest, and its resurgence, and the day it makes a comeback, it will not be too great. far.
(The author is a teacher from Jiangduo Middle School, Jiangyan District, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province)
Yin Weirong
Source: China Youth Daily
Version 08 on December 07, 2020