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Why family education instructor training grows "ferociously"
Ms. Cao from Beijing suddenly discovered that Sister Zhu, who does cleaning work in her own home, is a "treasure": not only is she an on-the-job cleaner in a small private company, she clocks in at the company from 9 to 5 every day, and also draws three nights a week. She regularly does cleaning for three families, and since last month, she has another weekend job - "taking orders" as a home education instructor.
"Sister Zhu has been working in my house for several years. I remember that she only has a junior high school education. Sister Zhu told me that she took several online classes and took the test twice before she got the certificate." Ms. Cao said, "I really quite shocking."
What shocked Ms. Cao was not just Sister Zhu's junior high school education, but the combination of "junior high school education", "a few online classes" and "licensed business" combined to give her a shock.
In recent days, the word "family education instructor" has been exposed quite a lot.
On the one hand, many official accounts have pushed articles full of tempting words, such as "very broad career prospects", "golden rice bowl" in the next five years, "hourly salary of thousands of yuan, annual salary of hundreds of thousands of yuan"; On the other hand, multiple media have exposed the tricks behind the training and certification of home education instructors.
So, what is the existence of a family education instructor certificate?
Is there a barrier to entry?
Is there a deep-seated reason behind the craze?
The reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily interviewed a number of researchers and experts to analyze this phenomenon.
Registration ≈ zero threshold
In recent years, the whole society has paid more attention to family education, especially since this year, the "Family Education Promotion Law" has been officially implemented, and family education has also risen from family affairs to state affairs. Many parents urgently need family education guidance. Education instructor training and research have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
So, who has the ability to "direct"?
Is there a minimum requirement for an "instructor"?
With the same doubts as Ms. Cao, reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily searched online for a number of registration institutions for family education instructors.
A reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily found that many family education instructor training institutions have set a threshold for applicants to enter the door.
What happens if the applicant's academic qualifications are not up to standard?
A reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily randomly clicked on the website of an institution, selected "junior high school education" and left a contact number. Soon, the staff member called.
"The official requirement is that anyone with a college degree or above can apply for the exam. If the degree is not enough, we can help with the supplementary enrollment." The staff gave such a reply.
So, what is supplementary enrollment?
The staff replied: "It is through the internal channels of the institution to supplement the student status. You can directly record your undergraduate degree, and then you can directly take the exam for senior family education instructors."
In order to prove that people with lower educational backgrounds can also successfully register, the staff sent reporters screenshots of two registration forms.
The reporter found that the "education" column of the two applicants both wrote: junior high school, in the "professional" column, one wrote "custom-made sofa cover", and the "do you have experience" column wrote It is: "When a couple is angry, I often persuade me to make peace."
A reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily conducted a comparison of many institutions and found that most of the institutions that provide family education instructors to register for the exam basically have no requirements for the applicants' educational background. Even if there is a requirement, it only exists literally. ——The application for family education instructors is almost "zero threshold".
"The proposal of the family education instructor is actually a compromise," said Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the China Academy of Educational Sciences. It has become a must, but few colleges and universities in our country have a major for cultivating family education talents.
When there is a disconnect between demand and supply, a compromise approach to training home education instructors emerges.
Whether it is an expedient measure or not, it is only logically deduced that a person who can be called a "instructor" should have higher professional knowledge, professional skills, professional training and professional quality than the mentee. However, from the China Youth Daily · A reporter from China Youth Daily found in a simple "personal experience" that not all applicants have this "professional" trait.
"Real questions" before the exam ≈ "Real" exam questions?
In fact, the problem of "low starting point" is easy to solve, as long as you are willing to learn.
Those who signed up for the family education instructor exam should all be willing to learn. However, when the applicants signed up with good wishes, they did not achieve real growth.
Lv Hong (pseudonym) from Henan used to do "one-to-one" counseling in a training institution. With the governance of subject training under the "double reduction" policy, Lv Hong is facing a career change.
After analyzing her strengths and weaknesses, she turned her attention to family education instructors.
"I have been working for a few years, and I have encountered all kinds of strange children. I found that children with high levels of parental cooperation are usually more 'easy to handle'. I also have practical experience, so I want to give it a try." Lu Hong said.
So, Lu Hong signed up.
However, after paying the money, Lu Hong realized that the training was not as rich as she imagined: before the start, the training institution would provide a 4-day online recording and broadcasting course, and when the exam was about to take place, the institution would send a document with questions on it.
"Although the staff will not say that these are the original questions, they will say that as long as they review these questions carefully, 90% of the people will pass the exam." Lu Hong said.
A reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily contacted many people who took the test and mentioned a similar set of questions.
It seems that it has become a "prescribed action" for the examination institution to issue "test questions" or "simulated real questions" before the exam.
Several interviewees told the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporters that these "real questions" included almost all the exam questions they took.
"As long as you read it a few times, you can almost pass the test. As for the training, whether you have watched it, how much you have watched, and whether you have mastered the knowledge, no one cares. After I discovered these 'tricks', I felt that this was completely cheating money. , I remembered that the staff mentioned 'full refund' when I signed the contract, so I didn't want to learn." Lu Hong said, but when the refund was really wanted, the staff's attitude changed and they didn't admit it at all." "Full refund" just kept repeating the sentence, "If you fail the test twice, you can get a refund of 2,000 yuan (tuition fee of 3,980 yuan), and if you don't take the test, you won't be refunded a cent."
When looking back and thinking about it, Lu Hong found that the registration process was completely led by the staff, "They told me that the state will adjust the test next month, the threshold for registering for the test will be greatly increased, and the difficulty of the test will be greatly increased. It will also increase, and the registration deadline for the 'simple' exam happens to be the day I consult." Lv Hong said.
It has been more than 3 months since Lu Hong registered for the exam, and the reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily heard the same words in every institution they contacted: "The country will adjust the exam next month, and this is before the adjustment. It's the last exam." The reporter found in the interview that the vast majority of applicants were on the day of registration consultation, "just" caught up with the deadline for registration.
"Being fooled" and "buying money to buy a certificate" have become the "Huanglian" that many people who participate in the family education instructor certification test have to swallow.
What makes this medicine even more difficult to swallow is that the "gold content" of the training courses in the few days is not high.
"There are many problems in the training of family education instructors," said Sun Hongyan, director of the Children's Research Institute of the China Youth Research Center.
Sun Hongyan said that any shortcoming of family, school, society and environment actually determines the quality of family education.
Therefore, the training of family education instructors should be systematic. The reality is, "These training institutions will invite some experts to give lectures. It is not that these experts are not good at speaking, but that each expert has his own skills. The most likely situation is which expert has the time, which increases the randomness of training.” Sun Hongyan said that the training is relatively scattered, and it is a common phenomenon that a curriculum system has not been formed.
An unnamed expert who has been engaged in family education research for many years introduced that a few days ago, two companies came to discuss the cooperation of family education instructor training with his research center. After the list of experts, I immediately stopped negotiating, because most of the names on the list are things I have never heard of.” The expert said that the reason why these companies came to discuss cooperation is because they took a fancy to the official of the research center. Background, "We can't be a tool to help them make money."
Training with low gold content will definitely not exchange for high gold certificate.
At the end of last year, the National Vocational Qualification Catalog (2021 Edition) released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security did not include family education instructors.
This has also become a "soft spot" in the training market for home education instructors.
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily have sorted out a number of certification institutions, and many training institutions have vaguely dealt with "who will issue the certificate". A notice was posted on the obvious position of the website: "All training programs involving 'family education instructors' will stop recruiting" "Illegal publicity, recruiting and other behaviors will be investigated for legal responsibility"...
Textual research behind the "fierce" is the inner anxiety of parents
The seemingly "fierce" craze for research is more like a bubble to experts.
"There will be many families waiting for you to guide and earn a lot of money after the certificate test? These are more commercial speculations and more subjective imaginations. In fact, it will not and should not be like this." Chu Zhaohui said.
In his view, the home education and training market cannot reach the popularity of primary and secondary school students' training, "because the rigid demand is not so strong, so everyone should treat it calmly."
Although experts have made a rational analysis, there is still a certain inevitability behind the craze of family education instructors.
"After the promulgation of the "Family Education Promotion Law", both parents and family education have put forward higher requirements." Sun Hongyan said that parents must improve their family education level. In addition, parents have also improved their own education level. High expectations, "fed and clothed" is no longer a parent's recognition of their own responsibilities.
Therefore, more and more parents have the demand for systematic improvement in family education.
Many institutions do indeed "take the pulse" accurately.
A staff member of a family education instructor training institution introduced that their target customers are not only professionals engaged in family education related work, but also parents, especially those parents who encounter difficulties in the process of educating their children.
From this perspective, this is not only a vocational training for family education instructors, but also a skill training for parents.
In addition, with the continuous advancement of the "double reduction" policy, the external anxiety that has plagued parents for a long time, such as "how many extra-curricular classes to attend" and "which extra-curricular classes to attend" has basically disappeared. The anxiety caused by some habitual thinking has not been resolved immediately.
For example, "some parents still have concerns about 'would we be at a loss if other children's burdens are not relieved'," Sun Hongyan said, while some parents hold "If other children are 'reduced', I can still think of a way to do it." Is it possible to 'overtake in a corner' by secretly making up for it?"
Chu Zhaohui believes that no matter from the perspective of the "Family Education Promotion Law" or from the perspective of reality, family education and training should not be dominated by the commercial behavior of commercial companies, and social resources should be fully utilized.
Chu Zhaohui's point of view has been recognized by many experts.
"It is still necessary to play the role of the government, and the content of family education and training should be included in the scope of a public service, and the government will serve parents by purchasing services." Sun Hongyan introduced that there is a more reasonable approach in Taiwan, China. The training of family education is placed in the community, and professionals can use salons and other forms in the community to guide parents and mothers in the community anytime, anywhere.”
Chu Zhaohui revealed: "The relevant norms for family education instructors are already in the process of brewing."
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Fan Weichen intern Gong Xinran Source: China Youth Daily