Primary school organizes graduation thesis defense, whether it is educational innovation or formalism
Jiang Li
According to reports, Kunming Beiqing Experimental School recently held a thesis defense meeting for primary school students. The content of the thesis defense includes the importance of protecting the ecological environment, the impact of short videos on primary school students, the discussion of the changes in Chinese women's clothing, and the impact of Qin Shihuang's achievements on Chinese history.
These topics are a bit "out-of-class" for elementary school students, but judging from the online video, the students who participated in the defense were all unscripted.
Regarding the defense of the graduation thesis organized by primary schools, some netizens praised that it is conducive to cultivating the comprehensive quality of students, and some netizens said that there are many ways to show students' talents, and the way of the thesis defense is too adult. Prepared by parents.
The defense of the graduation thesis in the primary school is obviously based on the defense of the graduation thesis of the master and the doctor, but this is not a real graduation thesis defense. It neither requires students to write a graduation thesis, do a graduation design, nor does the defense committee conduct defense and deliberation.
This is just borrowing the form of the graduation thesis defense, the purpose is to show the comprehensive quality of the students, which is essentially the same as the graduation show.
This kind of "primary teaching innovation" borrowed from the university education method needs to arouse vigilance and reflection.
Primary and secondary schools should attach importance to cultivating students' correct educational values, put an end to formalism in education, let alone turn students' homework into parental homework, and change "student papers" into "parents' papers".
Netizens questioned the "too volume" of the primary school students' graduation defense, and suspected that the parents did it, and they did not deliberately raise the bar.
In the primary school stage, students are allowed to study in combination with subjects, engage in some small research projects, and carry out project-based learning and inquiry-based learning, which is worthy of recognition.
Schools can also organize activities, in the form of classes or groups, to allow students to present the results of small research projects and answer questions from teachers and classmates.
However, it is an exaggeration to call this the defense of the primary school graduation thesis, and it is even more unnecessary to arrange the defense of the primary school graduation thesis.
The graduation thesis defense is by no means a performance. A performance-style graduation thesis defense will mislead students' understanding of the graduation thesis.
Previously, there was a primary school in the class's public account that showed the papers written by primary school students that were more "hard-core" than undergraduate papers. They were considered to be "fighting fathers", and the "papers" were written by parents for their children, not by the children themselves. "paper".
Because according to the actual ability and level of the child, it is impossible to write such a paper, let alone what "research results" are obtained.
The school organizes students to carry out inquiry-based learning and project-based learning, focusing on allowing students to experience and explore, rather than how to obtain research results.
Emphasizing and displaying the papers written by primary school students deviates from the original intention of project-based learning and inquiry-based learning, which will lead to problems of formalism and falsification.
Some parents will personally go into battle to help their children get papers and make PPTs, and students will just take the stage to demonstrate their parents' achievements.
If this problem exists, it will not only be detrimental to cultivating children to form strict academic norms and a sense of integrity from an early age, but will also increase the anxiety and burden of parents.
In fact, even if undergraduates participate in scientific research, they should not pursue results, publish papers or apply for patents, but should focus on experiencing the scientific research process, cultivating scientific research ability, and forming scientific research norms.
If you think about writing a paper without receiving rigorous scientific research training, you will be eager for quick success.
Guaranteeing the quality of undergraduate education is achieved by attaching importance to the quality of each course.
my country is vigorously promoting the "double reduction", which requires school education to improve the quality and efficiency, and attaches great importance to the cultivation of students' core literacy.
In April this year, the Ministry of Education issued 16 curriculum standards (2022 version) including compulsory education curriculum plans and languages.
For compulsory education schools, the implementation of new compulsory education curriculum plans and new curriculum standards is the key to improving the overall quality of education.
Educational innovation must respect the law of students' growth and cannot be mere formalism.