Rural schools, Children's Palace... What are the new changes this year as summer nursery classes expand to more places?
During the summer vacation last year, the Ministry of Education issued a document for the first time to encourage local governments to explore and develop summer care services. After a year of pilot and practice, this year’s summer care programs have been expanded to more places, and even more importantly, to rural schools. All these changes , what is the current situation?
How positive are the children and teachers at all levels?
Pay attention to the second year of summer care together↓
Summer nursery classes expand to rural schools
Beibaibi Central Primary School is a village primary school located in Anyang, Henan Province. This year, the summer nursery school appeared for the first time in this group of children's summer vacation.
This four-week summer school will accompany them to spend a different summer vacation.
Different from the one-sidedness in daily classes, the school's summer care courses emphasize the content of quality education. Interesting courses such as mechanical courses and architecture courses are the first time these children have come into contact with them.
Qi Guiying, Principal of Beibaibi Village Central Primary School in Anyang, Henan: I personally think summer care is necessary.
During the holidays, if the students are fully stocked, there may be a great safety hazard for the children, especially the drowning prevention in summer.
It is understood that one-third of the school's students face a certain degree of left-behind, and it is not uncommon for grandparents to take care of their grandchildren.
Wei Genki's grandson is in the third grade at the school. This year, when he heard that the school opened a summer school, he immediately asked his child to sign up.
Last year, when the Ministry of Education first explored summer care services, it proposed to solve the problem of "difficulty in nursing care" for students during the summer vacation.
In fact, the demand for child care in rural areas during summer vacation is not small. In the local area, some parents who go out to work are concerned about their children's academic performance. In previous summer vacations, cram schools around small villages were not uncommon.
In the face of this year's summer nursery classes, which have been positioned as quality education and extracurricular learning from the very beginning, parents also wait and see.
Qi Guiying, principal of Beibaibi Village Central Primary School in Anyang, Henan: Probably, the proportion of our students who participated in the trusteeship this year is 20%-25%, which is not too large, because it is the first year after all.
For village primary schools, in the past, students had limited access to resources during the summer vacation, and stocking and sending cram schools were important ways to spend the summer vacation.
Since last year, the Ministry of Education has required that summer care classes should not organize collective supplementary classes or teach new classes. This actually puts forward higher requirements for schools that carry out summer care programs in rural areas.
Huang Yan, Director of the Education Bureau of Anyang City, Henan Province: We also encountered some difficulties during the summer after-school service work.
We advocate "course supermarket", since it is called "course supermarket", the richer it is, the better.
However, especially in the primary and secondary schools, the number of teachers in music and art itself is relatively small.
Before the class started this year, Beibaibi Central Primary School had access to online education course resources. A remote professional teacher and a local teacher worked together to carry out practical teaching outside the discipline through the "double-teacher classroom" method, giving children Opportunities for us to broaden our horizons during the summer.
Guo Ziyi, a third-year student: There is a Luban lock in the building. The teacher taught us to untie it and put it back, and then play it all the time. I think it is very interesting. When the teacher talks, we can do it.
For many small villages like the school, through the capital investment in recent years, the hardware has been greatly improved.
However, given the limited number of teachers, to make summer care courses diverse and interesting, it is inseparable from the active expansion of external resources to inject vitality into summer care and even future teaching.
Huang Yan, Director of the Education Bureau of Anyang City, Henan Province: Therefore, we still encourage schools to develop and apply information technology education methods. In this regard, there are many schools in Anyang City that use information technology more in education through the application of smart classrooms. in the teaching process.
The intervention of good information technology is also very beneficial to meet the individual needs of students.
How to mobilize the enthusiasm of returning teachers?
Summer care class saves the hearts of parents, but teachers have to worry more. How to make teachers more willing to participate in the process of summer care class?
Weng Fenglin's school has a total of 200 teachers. As a class teacher in the second grade, it is her first time to work in a summer nursery school.
Although Weng Fenglin continued to serve as the head teacher in the summer nursery class, the difference is that the 23-person class here is composed of students from the same grade and different classes.
Special activities and mixed classes, these changes are not only novel to the students, but also very new to Weng Fenglin. What is even more interesting is that the summer care class is based on "play". The atmosphere of the nursery school is very different from the classroom during normal school days.
The math teacher teaches playing VR, the language teacher teaches cooking, and the teachers' summer majors change is a new change for this year's summer nursery class at Putuo Primary School in Zhoushan City.
Zhang Yi, Principal of Putuo Primary School in Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province: This year, we have used a social force to introduce a technology platform.
Expose students to some of the more cutting-edge things.
Then expand their horizons. In the two years since the summer camp, our courses should be said to be relatively rich.
It is the second year that the summer care class has been launched at Putuo Primary School in Zhoushan City, and the number of students has grown from 20 last year to 200 this year.
The demand for teachers has also increased, more than 200 people need to be organized into four classes, and at least 12 teachers are required to be in school every day.
Although there is no series of tasks such as memorizing lesson plans and arranging exams, the pressure and hard work have not been reduced because of this.
Most of these teachers in the summer nursery class have families and children like Weng Fenglin.
In the original semester, there was very little company with my family and my children. After a busy semester, I have more or less physical health problems.
In order to solve the impact of summer care classes on teachers, the summer care classes of Putuo Primary School in Zhoushan City, in addition to subsidizing teachers, can also flexibly choose the number of days to participate in the work.
Wo Weilin, Director of the Basic Education Division of the Education Bureau of Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province: We will also encounter difficulties in resource integration, curriculum offering, and teacher allocation, but these difficulties have been overcome so far.
Based on the principle of reasonable remuneration, we have established a teacher subsidy mechanism, which is currently 50 yuan per hour.
During this process, teachers will also encounter difficulties such as self-adjustment during the holidays, training and learning, and taking care of the family.
Fortunately, our teachers are very responsible, and they all do this work with conscientiousness.
In recent years, most of the teachers have chosen to spend their vacations at home. Under the epidemic, summer care classes across the country have been launched for the second year. How to make teachers and students participate in summer care classes comfortably and without pressure to go further , experts said that in addition to reducing students' academic pressure during vacations and expanding their horizons, they should also protect teachers' treatment and respect teachers' choices.
Xiong Bingqi, Dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute: In fact, teachers need to use the winter and summer vacations to rest their body and mind, and at the same time to recharge themselves to improve themselves.
If he's at work again, this can lead to a sense of burnout, which is a real problem.
In fact, when our teachers participate in summer hosting, it cannot be a free service for public welfare. We provide free or public welfare services to parents to students, but we cannot make teachers work overtime or make sacrifices. This definitely does not have a long-term mechanism. .
How to guarantee our teacher's salary for participating in summer care and guarantee his overtime pay? This must be a very important aspect.
Can public venues become summer care venues?
During the summer vacation, public venues such as gymnasiums, libraries, and youth activity centers are the places that children yearn for, but often here, they cannot do without the company of their parents.
So, these places may become places for summer care, can it really reduce the burden on parents to bring their children?
Peng Lan, who is practicing fencing, is a first-grade elementary school student in Nanjing.
What she attended was not an ordinary fencing training class, but an all-day summer nursery class held by the Nanjing Youth Palace. Parents brought it in in the morning and picked it up in the evening. She could stay in the Children's Palace for a day and participate in more than ten kinds of activities including fencing. project.
In the minds of the previous generation, the Children's Palace was a good place for summer vacation.
Times have changed, and the Children's Palace is still very attractive to children. Fun sandbox games, VR experience to explore deep-sea animals, construction classes to learn architectural knowledge, art, performances, etc. These entertaining projects are easy Catch your child's eye.
After the first term of summer care ended, many children went on to sign up for the second term.
In the course of the summer care class, the children are taught by the full-time teachers of the Youth Palace, which also ensures the professionalism of the children in cultivating their interests.
This year is the second year that Nanjing Youth Palace has launched summer care services, and the content of summer care courses has been further expanded. The Children's Palace has also cooperated with major museums and science and technology museums in Nanjing, and children have a weekly visit and extension class.
Shi Hongtu, head of the Children's Potential Development Project Department of Nanjing Youth Palace: Nanjing has abundant resources for such museums and exhibition halls. Last week we went to the Underwater World, then to the Aerospace Museum, and this week to the Insect Museum , we are a social education and training institution.
My understanding of social education is that some resources in society should actually be provided to our children to enjoy.
There are four sessions of summer care services in Nanjing Youth Palace, each session is ten days, and the price for one day is 200 yuan. Currently, about 200 children have signed up for the second session.
From the perspective of parents who participated in summer care, although public summer care such as school summer care and community summer care are closer and almost free, they still pay more attention to the quality of heat stroke care and the choice of their children.
Parents of students: Community-based summer care classes should be more traditionally custodial, and the ability to expand knowledge is weak.
Market-oriented (summer care classes) are mainly business-oriented, and the fees will be higher, so I did not participate in the end.
The school does not currently hold summer care classes.
If the school holds it in the future, I don't think I will send my child there, because I think the child should stay outside during the summer vacation, not inside the school.
For the Children's Palace, Youth Activity Center, Museum and other institutions, they have the innate advantages to carry out summer care services in terms of venues, teachers, courses, etc., but to maintain operations, it is difficult to achieve free or low prices.
Experts suggest that social resources such as the Children's Palace and museums may be introduced into the public welfare summer care in schools and communities, so that the public welfare summer care is both cheap and beautiful.
With the increase of parents' expectations for summer care, the quality of school summer care in the second year should also continue to improve.
Pure care and nursing is obviously far from meeting the needs of many parents, which is also the reason why some schools are cold in summer.
Xiong Bingqi, Dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute: Nursing classes held in many local schools are not attractive enough. Parents would rather send their children to nursing classes in social institutions.
why?
Usually, what I provide to students is babysitting services. As long as I guarantee that you will be safe for one day, the students will not want to go there at this time, and then the school will feel that the parents will not come, so we will not open.
The attractiveness of school hosting is not enough, it must be that we (the school) are not motivated enough.
More importantly, if we develop our summer hosting based on the starting point of social education, then we must rely more on community resources, our school resources, community venue resources, and at the same time integrate them and open them to students. an integration.
The summer school looks good, and how to do it well to make it more attractive requires a lot of effort.
After all, this is only the second year of large-scale advocacy. I hope there will be more bright spots this year, which will make people feel that there is room for children to develop mentally, physically, and aesthetically in the summer nursery, then maybe the third year will be even more popular. high!