Improve quality within the school to crack the vicious circle of training outside the school
Since the Spring Festival, Han Ran, a senior high school student, has not taken a day off. He usually finishes his normal school studies and is busy with tutoring subjects such as mathematics, chemistry, and physics on weekends.
The college entrance examination is about to take place. Looking at the spinning children, Han Ran's father said helplessly: "The child's academic performance is not satisfactory. He can only use extracurricular tutoring as a life-saving straw, even if he can improve his score a little."
Like Han Ran, many elementary and middle school students in Kunming are caught in a vicious circle of "reducing the burden on school and increasing the burden outside of school."
Yesterday, at a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Education responded to hot issues such as reducing the burden of students’ homework and off-campus training during the compulsory education stage, and should effectively reduce the burden of students’ off-campus training and homework.
To make up or not to make up the parent's dilemma
"Either in cram school every day, or on the way to cram school." This is a joke, but it is the status quo of many elementary and middle school students.
From elementary school to high school, Han Ran has attended many training classes, such as painting, guitar, basketball, English, mathematics, and chemistry.
During holidays and weekends, most of his leisure time was spent in training classes, which made him feel a lot of pressure to study. The more he learns, the more he feels that this is a burden.
Han Ran is not the case.
In a survey of the second grade (1) of a middle school in Kunming, it was found that more than 80% of the students in the class had received off-campus training.
In the "Kunming Education" WeChat public account "Whether off-campus training has become a burden for primary and middle school students" micro-survey, 65% of students are taking off-campus training.
Among this group of students, 41% took 1 to 2 training courses, 28% took 3 to 4 courses, and 3% took 5 or more courses.
Improving academic performance and wanting children to master some learning methods; other children are making up lessons, fearing that their children will be left behind; children’s poor grades are the main reasons why many parents choose to let their children participate in out-of-school training.
Li Yunbi, the first-grade parent of the child, said: “I watched the other children in the class attend training classes outside of school. I also enrolled her in an English class. I hope she can learn English well since she was a child.”
In the micro-survey, 78% of parents believed that too much and too heavy out-of-school training caused a burden on their children.
But on the other hand, the pressure from further education and employment, fearing that children will not be able to face social competition and challenges in the future, has forced many parents to report to their children for classes.
70% of children passively make up lessons
Some parents think that if all off-campus training schools are cancelled, the burden on their children will be lighter?
Wei Guanghong, a special-grade Chinese teacher in Yunnan Province who has conducted a thorough investigation of Kunming's off-campus training institutions, said that off-campus education is a useful supplement to school teaching.
Therefore, it is impossible to simply equate "extra-school burden" with out-of-school training.
In a survey of off-campus training institutions, Wei Guanghong found that more than 80% of parents have demand for off-campus training, especially some high-quality training institutions, which help develop children's interests and expertise.
So why does off-campus training increase the burden on students?
On the one hand, some training institutions excessively pursue profits; on the other hand, parents make blind choices and follow.
The survey results of an off-campus training institution in Kunming show that 70% of children make up lessons passively, and only 30% choose voluntarily.
“Generally speaking, those who can’t get enough food in the classroom, have advantages in subjects, or want to surpass other students, need to leverage off-campus training institutions.” The 3rd National Outstanding Foreign Language Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools, and a subject leader in Kunming Wang Jian said that if students are already struggling in class and cannot absorb the knowledge points taught by teachers, and then blindly make up lessons outside the school, the more they make up, the worse their academic performance will be.
According to Chen Qingyuan, the vice principal of Dianyun Education and Training School in Wuhua District, Kunming, the purpose of off-campus training is to help students find their learning interests and goals.
Most students can absorb 65% of the knowledge points in class, and the remaining 35% rely on review and consolidation after class.
But for some students with weak learning ability and poor learning initiative, it is necessary to use training institutions to complete the consolidation and promotion of knowledge points.
For these students, training institutions should implement personalized education to stimulate students' motivation for learning and make up for the shortcomings of school education.
School quality improvement solves the pain points
Recently, the "People's Daily" published an article commenting on off-campus training, stating that the current "burden reduction within the school and burden increase outside the school" has become a pain point in basic education.
how to solve this problem?
On the one hand, starting from the demand side, guide parents not to blindly follow, not worry, and make rational choices; on the other hand, starting from the supply side, further improve the quality and level of school education and improve classroom efficiency.
Wei Guanghong likened the process of students' education to collective running.
Due to differences among students, students with strong abilities can naturally lead and keep up in the process of group running, while students with weak abilities will fall behind.
How do these students catch up?
One needs to rely on its own efforts, and the other needs to rely on the "external force" of off-campus training institutions. If you want to catch up with the large forces, you will definitely have an additional burden.
However, if schools continue to improve the quality of teachers and classroom efficiency, so that fewer and fewer students are left behind, the burden on students will naturally be reduced.
At present, Kunming No. 11 Middle School is innovating the teaching model-large unit lesson preparation, sharing and complementing the teaching methods of teachers, and giving better use of the advantages of teaching materials.
Lin Mei, Deputy Director of Academic Affairs of Kun No. 11 Middle School, said that taking high school physics "constant current" as an example, it contains 12 points of knowledge.
After preparing lessons for a large unit, the teachers integrated the content into three contents: power supply part, partial circuit Ohm's law, and closed circuit Ohm's law, combining trivial knowledge points, and guiding children to learn in a targeted manner.
At the same time, large unit lesson preparation can compress the teaching time, increase students' classroom training time, and reduce the assignment of homework after class.
In addition, Kun No. 11 Middle School has set up a homework preview table to adjust students' homework through data analysis of students' homework and homework items.
Nowadays, with the exception of the high school, most students in the junior high school can complete their homework before 10 o'clock in the evening.
At the 3rd Kunming School (Park) Principal Forum with the theme of "Focus on Classroom, Improve Quality", principals of Kunming Foreign Language School, Xiaodong Primary School in Guandu District, and other schools shared their achievements and experience in improving teaching quality.
Among them, the Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone Experimental Primary School has created a classroom concept of "never leave get out of class". It does not encourage teachers to drag the classroom and assign mass homework, but to guide children to fall in love with reading and learning, and use the thinking and methods of learning anytime, anywhere. To solve the problem.
Yesterday, the State Information Office held a press conference. Lu Yugang, Director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, said that this year the Ministry of Education will list the governance of training institutions as a key task, and will work with relevant departments to adopt a more systematic approach and address both symptoms and root causes. Effective measures to further increase the governance of off-campus training institutions.
At the same time, it is necessary to further strengthen the school's role as the main position of educating people, and effectively reduce the burden of students' off-campus training and homework.
Reporter Cai Xiaolei reports