Zibo No. 1 Middle School requires senior one to complete all the high school courses.
The teachers of the school reported that the teaching progress has accelerated and student performance has dropped sharply; Huantai County Education and Sports Bureau has notified that normal teaching progress has been ordered to resume
On November 24, a netizen broke the news that the new principal of Huantai No. 1 Middle School (Huantai No. 1 Middle School for short) in Zibo City, Shandong Province, Gao Moumou required teachers to complete all subjects in the first year of high school. Review it.
In addition, the students with high grades in the class "persuade them to study art and attack the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts".
Two teachers from the school confirmed the above situation to a reporter from the Beijing News and said that after the principal named Gao took office in September this year, he asked all grades to speed up the teaching progress. This has caused excessive academic pressure and general decline in academic performance.
English teacher Li Li (pseudonym) said that the school teachers’ demands are simple, and they generally demand that “early reading” be cancelled and normal teaching progress resumed.
The school’s teacher told reporters last night that the school had notified the cancellation of "early reading."
The Huantai County Education and Sports Bureau issued a briefing on the matter last night, stating that after investigation, starting this semester, Huantai No. 1 High School was living in the "early reading" situation, and the teaching progress was faster than normal.
The school has been ordered to immediately cancel "early reading" and resume normal teaching progress.
The new principal asked to speed up the teaching progress.
On the evening of November 24, Chen Ling (pseudonym), an in-service teacher of Huantai No. 1 High School, told the Beijing News that the principal named Gao took office in September this year. He was originally the principal of Huantai No. 2 High School. The old and middle school principals retired and were transferred to work here.
After the school started, at a school meeting, the principal surnamed Gao told all teachers that the school should implement a "high-speed learning method", requiring high school freshmen to complete all the courses of the three years of high school within one school year, and all high school two and three are used for review , "Students don’t teach anything after the second or third year of high school. They have to review it over and over again."
Chen Ling said that before the headmaster Gao came to Huantai No. 1 High School, the teaching progress of students had been gradual.
"The previous teaching was in accordance with the teaching regulations of the province, and the teaching content was arranged step by step, but since the arrival of Principal Gao, the progress has become faster and faster."
The school’s English teacher Li Li also said that not only the first grade students, but also the second and third grades of high school students have all their teaching hours to be compressed, and “must leave time for review”.
She introduced that the content that the senior first-year students learned on New Year's Day, and now this group of senior first-year students have all studied, and they are studying the content of the next semester.
Li Li recalled that in early November, a senior high school English teacher and researcher from the Supervision Group of the Zibo City Education Bureau visited Huantai No. 1 Middle School for research and learned about the progress of high school English teaching.
"The teaching and research staff also said that the progress is too fast. At present, Zibo Experimental Middle School has only learned the third unit of English for the first year, but we have learned the fifth unit."
Chen Ling said that before headmaster Gao came to study a unit, he had to read the text first, recite the text after mastering the new words, and combine the exercises after class to allow students to consolidate their knowledge.
Li Li also said that in the past, after the end of a unit study, the teachers would propose an important knowledge point in the unit, "Through a large number of exercises and explanations, comprehensive coverage, diverging students' thinking and improving their understanding ability, it is like a cow. We I will cut the ox into sections, so that the legs, heads, and tails are all in place."
However, as the learning progress accelerated, Li Li said that there is no way to deepen the content of the lectures. “All courses stay on the surface. Now students complain, and we generally reflect that we can’t keep up, can’t learn, don’t learn well, and even don’t understand. In some classes, students are tired of studying and not studying."
Boarding students are required to "read early" at more than 5 o'clock, and the class teacher and instructor should also be present
Li Li said that after the teaching progress was accelerated, because the content of a class could not be explained more thoroughly as before, there was no more time to do after-class exercises, and the exercises that the teacher would talk about in normal classes were left for students to do their homework. It is common to do homework until 11 o'clock in the evening.
In addition, in response to the principal Gao’s proposal that "the time for the second and third grades of high school is used for review," Li Li said that in general review, the content of the recent study will be sorted out before each exam.
"The general review of the third year of high school is also a comprehensive review from the beginning of the first year of high school after all the courses are over. Generally, it takes one semester to sort out all the content, but the current review feels that it is catching up and has not achieved the desired effect."
She told the Beijing News reporter that the teaching progress of high school, high school, and high school has all been accelerated, and the result is a direct result of a significant drop in student performance. "The most recent exam in high school was very unsatisfactory."
Chen Ling also said, “Since September, the school has organized two monthly exams and a mid-term exam. The results of all subjects of all high school students have generally dropped by about 20 points. The physics test can even be said to be 30 or 40 points. That's amazing."
In addition, Chen Ling said that the principal surnamed Gao also requires all boarding students to "early read" at 5 o'clock in the morning every day, and the class teacher and teachers should also be present. This measure has made some teachers worse and worse.
"The weather is getting colder and I can't see anything when I go out in the morning. Many teachers fall and come to school with their feet on their feet. Nearly half of the teachers in the office have a cold and are in a bad state of mind."
A senior high school student of the school also told the Beijing News that normally, the school starts the first class at 7:5 in the morning and the school opens at 6:40. The students enter the class for more than ten minutes of morning reading. After the emergence of "early reading", all the students living on campus must gather in the school cafeteria at 5 a.m., "resulting in poor learning efficiency and always sleeping in the first and second classes." Li Li and Chen Ling Also confirmed the above phenomenon.
Li Li also said that after the mid-term exams in mid-November, the principal named Gao also had a meeting to notify teachers of all grades, recommending those who have good art skills to the school from the students with the highest academic performance in each class. The students who came to the paper were tested in the art category, and it is said that they were recommended to go to the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts." But how the selected students will study, Li Li said that the school has not notified the specific situation.
■ Follow up
County Education and Sports Bureau ordered the cancellation of "early reading" to resume normal teaching progress
Faced with a series of reform measures taken by the newly appointed principal, Li Li said that many teachers "dare to be angry but dare not speak." In order to be accountable to students, they try to slow down in teaching as much as possible, "but it is still too fast."
She said that the school teachers' demands are simple, and they generally cancel "early reading" and resume normal teaching progress.
Chen Ling told reporters last night that she had received a notice to cancel the "Early Reading".
The WeChat screenshot provided by Chen Ling shows that a work group of head teachers issued a notice: "Starting from tomorrow morning, early reading will be cancelled, the dormitory will open at 6:30, and the restaurant will eat at 6:40."
Chen Ling said that it was the deputy director of the third grade who released the news. At present, all grades have received notices. "It's just that the grade directors are very cautious, and they talk to the class teacher orally."
Yesterday morning, the staff on duty of the Zibo City Education Bureau told reporters that on the morning of November 24, the City Education Bureau and the education department of Huantai County had launched an investigation on the matter.
Last night, the Huantai County Education and Sports Bureau issued a report on the matter, stating that the Huantai County Education and Sports Bureau organized an investigation team to investigate the problems reported by the media and netizens of the "early reading" of Huantai No.1 Middle School.
According to the report, after investigation, starting this semester, Huantai No. 1 Middle School was living in the "early reading" situation, the teaching progress was faster than normal, and the restaurant catering was unreasonable, and teachers, students and parents had more feedback.
In response, the Education and Sports Bureau of Huantai County has ordered the school to immediately cancel "early reading", resume normal teaching progress, improve dining methods, and improve the quality of meals.
In the next step, we will strictly supervise the Huantai No. 1 Middle School, urge and instruct schools to strictly observe teaching regulations, strengthen restaurant management, and ensure a good teaching and living order.
A reporter from the Beijing News contacted the principal surnamed Gao many times, but no response has been received as of press time.
■ Sound
Expert: Advanced teaching seriously violates the law of growth in high school
Xiong Bingqi, dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, told the Beijing News that the teaching model of "complete the three-year high school curriculum in the first year of high school" is a typical advanced teaching and seriously violates the growth law of high school students.
"This is common sense. Otherwise, why should high schools set up three years of teaching time instead of one year?" Xiong Bingqi said that the correct high school education should achieve "ethics, intelligence, physical education, and labor" at the same time, and complete three years of study in one year. The curriculum will undoubtedly squeeze the time that students should receive other aspects of education.
Regarding what the teaching teacher of Huantai No. 1 Middle School called "the principal of high school requires students with high class rankings to study art", Xiong Bingqi said that if the situation is true, it is obviously done for exams, so as to increase the school's enrollment rate and let students Entering the so-called "prestigious school", but in fact, these measures can only "educate the infertile" and blindly pursue the "prestigious school" without considering the students' real interest in learning and physical and mental health.
"Now more and more students have mental health problems after entering university, which has a lot to do with some high school education models that are oriented towards further studies."
Xiong Bingqi said that education-oriented teaching is a common practice in all stages of education. The implementation of the current "double reduction" policy should not only pay attention to education outside the school, but also pay attention to education within the school. If you want to fundamentally improve the problem, you need to Continue to deepen the reform of the education evaluation system.
Beijing News reporter Mu Hongju and intern Li Xinran