China News Agency, Hangzhou, September 17 (Strictly Xie Panpan) Recently, You Fan, a "post-90s" rural teacher in Linhai City, Zhejiang Province, was awarded a set of 2 million yuan (RMB, the same below) commercial housing and 100,000 yuan for his outstanding teaching achievements. Yuan bonus, the teacher had a car worth 280,000 yuan three years ago, which caused heated discussions.
The school responded that the commercial housing and the bonus were funded by a local education foundation, mainly to motivate more outstanding teachers and students, and have been awarded for 4 consecutive years.
The inability to retain high-quality teachers is one of the problems in rural education.
Teachers interact with children in a rural school in Wenzhou, Zhejiang.
Photo courtesy of Zhang Lingling
However, Gao Ning, deputy director of the Hangzhou Education Bureau, believes that he is more in favor of "living in" rural teachers than retaining rural teachers.
If a rural school is likened to a pool, it should be a pool with surging water, a pool with regular water changes, and not a "stagnant pool".
The key is to have a reasonable "flow" order design, such as using years of service, professional title (position) promotion ladders, etc. to ensure regular water changes, and to provide adequate subsidies and other guarantees during the service period, not asking for everything but for use.
It is necessary to improve policies and mechanisms to allow more cutting-edge teachers and more educational resources to "flow" to the countryside.
Hangzhou is currently carrying out the pilot practice of "Beautiful Education" for common prosperity, accelerating the high-quality development of basic education in four mountainous counties within the city, including Chun'an, Tonglu, Jiande and Lin'an.
Since the school started in September this year, 110 outstanding teachers have gone to 4 counties in the mountainous area at this level and in the main urban area of Hangzhou.
The synchronous classroom of Hangzhou Xingzhou Primary School and Central Primary School of Fengshuling Town, Chun'an County, Hangzhou City.
Photo courtesy of Hangzhou Xingzhou Primary School
In the past two years, Hangzhou has adopted many preferential measures for the evaluation and employment of rural teachers. For example, there are no rigid requirements for the educational and teaching achievements of teachers who have worked in rural schools for three years and are still teaching in rural schools; Teachers who are still teaching in rural areas can be individually evaluated and hired for senior professional titles; according to the unified deployment of Zhejiang Province, the targeted evaluation of special-grade teachers is specially implemented in Chun'an County.
A teacher from Dinglan Experimental School Affiliated to Hangzhou Normal University is painting a fan with the children, enjoying the elegance of Song Yun.
Photo by Hong Huanhuan
Since last year, Wenzhou has actively innovated measures to guide the flow of outstanding talents to rural schools, focusing on promoting the flow of principals and key teachers of urban compulsory education schools to rural schools and weak schools, forming an incentive mechanism of "the more you go to the grassroots level, the higher the salary and the more opportunities". More and more urban teachers are volunteering to teach in rural schools.
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