Chinanews client, Beijing, February 23 (Lang Lang Zhang Ni) The new spring semester has started one after another in various places. Parents have been excited about the return of the "sacred beasts".
But at the same time, problems such as heavy homework burdens and picking up children from school are coming.
On the 23rd, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the school's epidemic prevention and control and education and teaching work in the spring semester of 2021, and to respond to a series of questions that students and parents are concerned about.
Data map: Students staying in a university choose meals in the buffet area.
Photo by Xu Xiaofeng
This Spring Festival 416,300 college students will stay in school for the holiday
During the Spring Festival holiday just past, "Chinese New Year on the spot" was a key word in many people's lives.
In colleges and universities, more than 400,000 college students also spent traditional festivals on campus.
According to a press conference held by the Ministry of Education on the 23rd, during the Spring Festival, according to statistics from 2720 colleges and universities reported in various places, the number of students staying in schools for the Spring Festival was 416,300.
According to the Ministry of Education, localities and colleges and universities have comprehensively and carefully implemented various measures to prevent and control the epidemic situation during the winter vacation and ensure the life of teachers and students staying on campus. There is no epidemic on campus, ensuring that teachers and students staying at the school have a happy, peaceful, healthy and safe life. Chinese New Year.
The spring semester starts normally! Closed Management of University Campus
Regarding the opening of colleges and universities, the Ministry of Education revealed at the press conference that it will deploy and guide all regions and colleges to implement the overall requirements of "normal, safe, and staggered opening of the spring semester", plan early for the opening of the spring, and scientifically formulate a plan for the opening of the school.
The Ministry of Education emphasizes that in the spring semester of colleges and universities, it is necessary to strengthen the daily management of the campus, implement closed campus management, and insist on non-essential non-school, non-essential non-exit, non-essential non-gathering, non-essential non-necessary to go to medium and high-risk areas. Those who leave the school shall strictly implement the application approval system.
February 22 is the opening day of primary and secondary schools in Guangzhou. Teachers and students of an elementary school are listening carefully to the "Safety First Class".
Photo courtesy of Guangzhou Emergency Management Bureau
Don't ask parents to check and correct homework
The new semester is just around the corner, and many parents have begun to give the school assignments a "big head". However, the Ministry of Education has already said: no assignment or disguised assignment of homework to parents, and no requirement for parents to check or correct homework.
Lu Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, said on the 23rd that efforts should be made to strengthen student homework management.
Encourage the placement of hierarchical assignments, flexible assignments, and personalized assignments, pay attention to designing exploratory assignments, practical assignments, explore interdisciplinary assignments, and comprehensive assignments, resolutely overcome mechanical and invalid assignments, and eliminate repetitive and punitive assignments.
In addition, class teachers should seriously correct homework, provide timely feedback, pay attention to strengthening the face-to-face commentary, carefully analyze the academic situation, and do a good job of answering questions for existing problems.
Do not assign or disguise assignments to parents, and do not require parents to check or correct homework.
Compulsory education after-school services should be connected with normal off-get off work hours
After school started, the problem of picking up children from school has become a "big problem" for many parents.
At the press conference on the 23rd, regarding this "pain point" of parents, Lu Yugang said that all localities should promote the implementation of full coverage of after-school services in compulsory education schools, and every school should do it.
In terms of time arrangement, it should be connected with the local normal off-duty hours to effectively solve the problem of parents’ difficulty in picking up students.
It is necessary to enrich the content of after-school services, instruct students to complete their homework as much as possible in school, and help tutors with learning difficulties.
Lu Yugang also emphasized that it is necessary to guide students to complete their homework in the school as much as possible, to guide students who have the ability to learn to expand their learning space, to actively carry out a variety of cultural and sports activities, reading, interest groups and club activities, and to do their best to make students willing to stay in school Participate in after-school service activities.
At the same time, it is necessary to further improve the guarantee mechanism of after-school services and fully mobilize teachers' enthusiasm for participating in after-school services.
Data map: A student puts his mobile phone in his mobile phone "sleeping bag" before class.
Photo by Zhong Xin
Mobile phones are limited to campus and prohibited from entering classrooms
Earlier, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of Mobile Phones for Primary and Middle School Students."
Lu Yugang emphasized that after the beginning of the new semester, all localities must implement the "Notice", and detailed management measures should be implemented in accordance with the requirements of "limited access to campus and prohibition of access to classrooms".
Schools should do a good job of home-school communication, inform each family and each student of the specific requirements of mobile phone management in advance, and strive for understanding and support.
At the same time, prepare the necessary unified storage devices for mobile phones.
Lu Yugang said that we are also very pleased to see recently that some places have issued special notices and arrangements have been made for the devices managed by the school.
For example, Beijing has made specific work arrangements.
County-level education departments should strengthen the guidance and supervision of daily work to ensure that relevant requirements are fully implemented.
It is also hoped that the majority of parents will strengthen the supervision and management of their children's use of mobile phones, and form a joint force of home-school education.
Intensify the management of training institutions' "rolling out of funds" and other issues
In the new semester, the Ministry of Education will also strictly regulate off-campus training institutions.
Lu Yugang emphasized at the meeting that in recent years, various localities have actively carried out the governance of off-campus training institutions and achieved positive results.
However, there are still many problems in some places. Off-campus training is still overheated, and the problem of advanced and over-standard training has not been fundamentally solved. Some off-campus training projects charge high fees, and training institutions have "difficulty in refunding fees" and "rolling out of money" and other violations of laws and regulations. Occurred, which not only increased the burden on students, but also increased the burden on parents, and seriously damaged the education ecology.
He emphasized that this year, it is necessary to further strengthen governance, adhere to governance according to law, source governance, comprehensive policy implementation, and both symptoms and root causes. It is necessary to strictly approve training institutions, strengthen training content supervision, standardize training service behavior, and actively promote the use of "Out-of-school training for primary and secondary school students. Service Contract (Model Text)", strictly investigate and deal with violations of laws and regulations in training, effectively reduce the excessive burden of off-campus training for students, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of parents.
He also reminded parents to put their children's physical and mental health first, establish correct educational concepts and the concept of children's success, not to put excessive pressure on children, scientifically and rationally arrange children's study, life and exercise, so that children can develop healthily and comprehensively. .
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