Beijing’s “open tutoring plan” is newly upgraded, and the scope of tutoring has been expanded to the city’s junior high schools. There are four types of online tutoring.
330,000 junior high school students will enjoy free online tutoring next year
Beijing’s “open tutoring plan” is newly upgraded, and the teacher-student information check will be completed before mid-December; the Municipal Education Commission: the open tutoring plan is not online make-up classes
According to the "Beijing Open Online Tutoring Program for Middle School Teachers (Trial)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Open Tutoring Program"), starting from 2022, except for holidays, winter and summer vacations, from Monday to Friday from 18:00 to 21:00, all junior high schools in the city Students can enjoy online tutoring services. The tutoring subjects are Chinese, mathematics, English, ethics and the rule of law, physics, chemistry, biology, history, and geography.
Yesterday, at the kick-off meeting of the "Open Tutoring Plan", the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission stated that the open tutoring plan has been launched in 2016 for five years and has undergone a brand new upgrade in the second half of this year. The tutoring program will cover 646 schools and more than 330,000 students.
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60% of tutors are key teachers at district level and above
In order to facilitate the reform of subject teaching and examination and enrollment system, Beijing launched an open tutoring plan in 2016.
In November 2016, the first phase of the pilot work was launched in Tongzhou District; the second phase was launched in March 2018; the third phase was entered in October 2019, covering more than 90,000 students in 187 junior high schools.
"As of July 14, 2021, a total of 14,618 teachers have been declared and approved by the platform. Among them, the three major subjects of mathematics, Chinese, and English have the largest number of teachers, which is consistent with the demand for students' subjects." For students and parents concerned. Teacher qualifications, Professor Yu Shengquan, Executive Director and Professor of the Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education of Beijing Normal University, said that the number of teachers involved in the first three stages of tutoring is relatively strong. At present, 60% of the backbone teachers at the district level and above are the main force of tutors. , To expand the scope of influence of high-quality resources, to a certain extent, promote the balance of regional education resources.
When introducing the pilot effect of the "Open Tutoring Program", Yu Shengquan said that data shows that students who often participate in tutoring have a positive impact on their degree of interest in subject learning and their performance through online communication with high-quality teachers in various disciplines in the city.
Statistics show that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, a total of more than 70,000 junior high school students received tutoring, with a total of more than 2 million tutoring times and more than 300,000 hours of tutoring.
At the same time, Yu Shengquan stated that the “Open Tutoring Program” has expanded the scope of influence of high-quality teacher resources and promoted the balanced development of inter-regional education to a certain extent. The satisfaction of coaching is above 90%."
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"Open Tutoring Program" will be extended to junior high schools in the city
It has been five years since the "Open Tutoring Program" was officially launched in 2016. The recently announced "Beijing Middle School Teachers' Open Online Tutoring Program (Trial)" has been "upgraded" in many aspects including the scope of implementation.
The relevant person in charge of the Personnel Department of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission stated that the "open tutoring plan" will be extended to junior high schools in the city, and the selection and requirements of teachers will be more stringent. According to the document, only teachers with on-the-job, intermediate and above titles can apply for participation. "The previous requirement was that key teachers at the district level and above can apply, and ordinary teachers are also encouraged to actively participate."
In the process of tutoring, teachers and students implement unified real-name authentication, log in with their own education ID (binding name and mobile phone number), and can publish and update online information according to role permissions and participate in tutoring.
There are four forms of online tutoring: one-to-one real-time online tutoring, one-to-many real-time online tutoring (interactive classroom), Q&A center and micro-class learning.
The duration of one-to-one and one-to-many real-time online tutoring does not exceed 30 minutes.
The person in charge stated that in accordance with the requirements of the “double reduction”, the new “open tutoring plan” adjusted the tutoring time, limited the duration of continuous tutoring, guaranteed the effect of tutoring, and protected the eyesight of students. “The total length of one-to-many tutoring per week does not exceed For 5 hours, the number of accepted answers that can be counted in the Q&A Center each week is no more than 30, and the teacher’s performance per semester is capped at 5000 points."
At the same time, students must evaluate the tutor's tutoring situation or the quality of resources after receiving each form of tutoring.
Regarding teachers, Shengquan Yu said that in the future, standardized tutoring will be strengthened. Based on the quality of tutoring and the data of tutoring process, labels that reflect the quality of tutoring, history of participation, and preference for teaching styles will be generated, and personal portraits of teachers will be outlined to ensure that online teachers provide satisfactory quality. Standardized service behavior.
In addition, in the future, artificial intelligence will be used to facilitate the efficient development of online tutoring, in-depth analysis of students' educational needs, intelligently recommend personalized educational resources, and improve students' learning efficiency.
According to the planned promotion arrangement, the verification and confirmation of teacher and student information will be completed before mid-December this year.
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Encourage students to choose tutors based on their learning preferences
The "Double Reduction" document issued by the Central Government and Beijing in July this year clearly requires that free online learning services be strengthened and optimized.
The education department should collect and develop a wealth of high-quality online education and teaching resources, provide students with high-quality thematic educational resources and learning resources covering all grades and subjects for free, promote the balanced development of educational resources, and promote educational equity.
All localities must actively create conditions and organize outstanding teachers to conduct free online interactive exchanges and answer questions.
The relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission stated that under the background of "double reduction", 80% to 90% of the learning problems of students in the compulsory education stage can be solved in the school.
The open tutoring plan is not to make up online classes, but to guide teachers to complete high-end, distinctive, student-specific, and differentiated tutoring services in the system. It must reflect the outstanding characteristics of Beijing’s high-quality education system and high-quality balance. The service attributes of high-quality teachers.
The person in charge explained that the significance of the online tutoring program is to encourage students to choose teachers who are suitable for their hobbies and expertise from a broader platform and resources according to their own personal development and learning preferences, so as to enhance their learning experience in the compulsory education stage And harvest.
The person in charge said, “This platform is not for everyone to go to, every day, but to experience when students feel unsatisfied or have enough food.” On the platform, teachers can also mark The subject content and teaching expertise that I am good at, "the same senior teacher, but the content of different teachers may be different, and the teacher's course content will be more detailed on the platform", allowing teachers to achieve high-quality service attributes through "Internet access" The redistribution of the students will enhance the students’ sense of actual gain, the person in charge said.
Beijing News reporter Yang Feifei