It has been more than 4 months since the "double reduction" policy was promulgated.

　　On July 24, 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 Further Reducing the Work Burden of Students in Compulsory Education and the Burden of Off-campus Training."

　　In the text of the "double reduction" policy of more than 6000 words, the two high-frequency words "school" and "off-campus training institution" appeared 43 and 37 times respectively.

The policy states that it is necessary to regulate the off-campus training market so that students' learning can better return to campus.

This retreat and advancement is a major adjustment to the educational pattern.

　　Freeing students from the arduous off-campus training and returning to the campus is just a path for education to return to its essence, and the key to making the "double reduction" policy take root lies in teachers.

　　For students, "double subtraction" is to do subtraction. For teachers, "double subtraction" is more like doing a four arithmetic problem of "addition, subtraction, multiplication and division".

　　The first is "addition."

　　On the surface, the workload of teachers has increased significantly after the "double reduction".

　　After the implementation of the “double reduction” policy, in order to ensure the children’s sleep time, many places have postponed the morning class time of primary and middle school students, but the teacher’s work time cannot be When children are sent to school, as long as there are students who arrive early, teachers must not arrive late; the school has increased after-school services. Teachers must not only guide students in homework, check students’ missing vacancies, but also organize a variety of activities, and leave work late. NS.

　　Coupled with lesson preparation, teaching and research, homework correction, communication with parents... After the "double reduction", many media have recorded "Teacher's Day" in various ways, and many teachers work more than 12 hours a day.

　　Some teachers ridicule that they have become "time management masters", and they have developed the ability to cut the needle; some teachers said: "The Internet giant is '996', we are '666': get up at 6 o'clock every day, 6 o'clock in the evening Go home and have a meeting to work overtime in the evening or on Saturday."

　　Reducing the burden on students does not mean transferring or superimposing the burden on teachers. It is obvious that reducing the burden on students and increasing the burden on teachers is not the original intention of the "double reduction" policy.

　　Facing the sudden increase in the burden of teachers, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education responded and will continue to supervise and guide all regions to organically integrate teacher burden reduction with optimizing teacher resource allocation and deepening education and teaching reforms, improve the long-term mechanism for teacher burden reduction, and promote teacher burden reduction work Achieved tangible results.

　　Then we have to do "subtraction" for the teacher.

　　To "reduce", we must first clarify what are the burdens that teachers should not bear.

　　In recent years, there have been many stories about teachers becoming "cousins" and "cousins" on the Internet. Funny is just a way for teachers to laugh at themselves and relax.

It should be said that as many tables as there are not related to teaching, there are as many "miscellaneous things" not related to teaching.

　　The education authorities have always attached great importance to the non-teaching burden borne by teachers. Since 2018, the Ministry of Education has proposed to reduce the burden on teachers. The year 2019 was also listed as the “year of reducing the burden on teachers.” In December of that year, the The General Office of the State Council issued the "Several Opinions on Reducing the Burden of Primary and Secondary School Teachers and Further Creating a Good Environment for Education and Teaching", which put forward 20 requirements in terms of coordinating and regulating inspections, inspections, appraisal and assessment items, social affairs entering campuses, and streamlining the filling of related reports. It is called "Teachers' Burden Reduction 20".

In 2020, various localities have formulated specific burden reduction lists, and 8 departments including the Ministry of Education have issued the "Opinions on Further Stimulating the Vitality of Primary and Secondary Schools", requesting to vigorously streamline and strictly regulate various "campus" special educational activities, and effectively eliminate Interference with normal school education and teaching order.

　　The strength of the policy is not small, but why do some teachers always report that the burden has not been reduced much?

　　A middle school teacher said to the author that "Double Minus" specifically puts forward the requirements for teachers to design homework scientifically, and the school immediately issued the requirements, but the so-called "design" required by the school is to write out the idea of ​​homework design every day, "homework" Design is really necessary, but the premise of whether the design is scientific or not is to study the students. It takes at least a thousand words to write a complete idea. There are enough forms and summaries to be filled out. After finishing writing, there is no energy to carry out real research. NS."

　　In the author's opinion, the fundamental reason for the inability to reduce is the inertial thinking such as "one size fits all" and "light performance".

The formalism in school management must be removed in order to reduce the non-teaching burden of teachers accordingly.

　　After "addition and subtraction" is "multiplication and division", multiplication and division are double addition and subtraction.

After the "double reduction", in what areas should teachers vigorously strengthen and reduce?

　　What should be vigorously strengthened is capacity.

　　The "double reduction" policy specifically mentioned the need to strengthen the role of school education as the main position.

In fact, in recent years, behind the crazy development of off-campus training institutions and even the "anti-customer-oriented" situation, there are also factors that some public schools are not conscientious enough.

　　A parent told the author that children will send them to the teacher in the training class as soon as they encounter questions that they don’t know. No matter how late, the teacher will answer as much as possible. A teacher in your own school?"

　　Behind the question is the distrust of some parents and students in the school.

　　In addition, a small number of schools also have some explicit and hidden connections with off-campus training institutions, which aggravated this distrust. Especially in those years when "pit classes" were popular, a small number of schools and off-campus training institutions formed a relationship. A closer chain: The off-campus training organization is responsible for advanced and super-level training, and organizes cup competitions for selection. The school then "points" these children into the school, and the school becomes a "take-up man."

　　Between advancement and retreat, some schools have gradually lost their original ability to study students and teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Some teachers "promote lessons" in class. Students with strong ability "cannot eat" naturally have extracurricular classes for "extra meals", and students with weak ability "cannot learn." "Meeting" extracurricular classes can naturally also be solved. A very small number of teachers even join the ranks of off-campus training institutions.

　　How could the confidence of the "main position" be sufficient?

　　The "double reduction" policy clearly states that the quality of school education and teaching and service levels should be further improved, homework assignments should be more scientific and reasonable, school after-school services should basically meet the needs of students, and student learning should better return to campus.

　　Whether it is the improvement of the quality of education and teaching, homework design, or after-school services, the implementation of whichever item is in place cannot be solved by the school or the teacher showing an attitude, but the teacher’s teaching and research ability and teaching ability should match these requirements. The teacher has Only real talents and real learning can ensure the realization of the goal.

　　So, what is going to be reduced vigorously?

　　The "double reduction" policy clearly states that it is necessary to build a good education ecology, effectively alleviate the anxiety of parents, and promote the overall development and healthy growth of students.

　　To build a good education ecology, it is necessary to forcefully reverse the evaluation criteria of "score-only theory".

　　After the separation of capital and education, teachers cannot stay in the era of "KPI" as heroes. They must really study children and discover the shining points of each child, so that each child can grow up confidently.

　　Of course, in order to reverse the teacher's notion of score-only theory, schools must "add an extra ruler" when evaluating teachers. Teachers cannot be required to pay attention to the multi-dimensional development of students. However, when it comes to "evaluation", the most useful thing is student scores.

　　Ten years of trees and 100 years of people, education is really a "slow effort."

　　A few days ago, a video of a teacher writing blackboard writing with chalk became popular. The teacher in the video can write extremely beautiful artistic characters, and even change fonts such as official script, lower case script, and running script. Many netizens marveled that this teacher is a "walking printer". ".

However, some old teachers pointed out that a few decades ago, writing on the blackboard was the basic skill of every teacher. There are many teachers who can write a beautiful writing on the blackboard, and there are even many teachers who can draw a circle and draw a freehand map.

It's just that there are fewer teachers who can calm down and practice basic skills over the years.

　　In a sense, a good education ecology is first of all a quiet state.

Get rid of utilitarianism and impetuousness, and return to the original intention and essence of education. A quiet campus, a bright classroom, a quiet teacher and a group of healthy students should be what education should be.

　　Fan Weichen Source: China Youth Daily

　　Version 05 on December 06, 2021