20 provinces issued a burden reduction list:

How to reduce the burden of teachers

　　Recently, Ren Youqun, director of the Department of Teacher Work of the Ministry of Education, stated at a press conference of the Ministry of Education that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Education issued 20 measures to reduce the burden on primary and secondary school teachers.

At present, 20 provinces across the country have issued burden reduction lists, and it is expected that all provinces will be issued within this year.

　　Previously, there were many meetings, many evaluations, many forms, and many adjustments, which took away time, distracted teaching energy, and made the teachers exhausted.

At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Education proposed to reduce the burden on teachers as a major issue.

　　Over the past year, various localities have issued a list of burden reductions, and actions to reduce the burden of primary and secondary school teachers have been carried out in full swing.

What targeted measures have various provinces put forward, and what do they have in common?

What's the difference?

How can the burden of teachers really be reduced?

Appraisal items are reduced by more than 50%, and the burden reduction effect is difficult to immediately show

　　This year is the sixth year that Liu Chong, a rural teacher in Yiyang City, Hunan Province, has been teaching. Because he is also a class teacher, in addition to completing teaching tasks, he has to spend his energy to sort out various materials, keep accounts, and welcome inspections.

"Before, you had to prepare materials as soon as you checked. I often worked overtime on weekends, which was indeed overwhelmed.

　　The "List of Burden Reduction for Primary and Secondary School Teachers in Hunan Province" requires all localities to conduct a centralized clean-up of the existing supervision, inspection, evaluation and assessment items involving primary and secondary schools and teachers in the region before the end of this year, strictly control the total amount and frequency, and ensure that primary and secondary schools are strictly controlled. The supervision, inspection, evaluation, and assessment items of teachers will be reduced by more than 50% on the existing basis, and the items retained after cleaning will be managed in a list.

　　So far, the "List of Burden Reduction for Primary and Secondary School Teachers in Hunan Province" has been released for nearly 20 days.

Liu Chong introduced: "The inspections from outside the education system have been streamlined by more than one-third; while the number of inspections from within the education system has basically not changed. After all, the overall feeling of burden reduction is not obvious." These days, he is still receiving teaching Inspection teams for routine inspections, home visit record inspections and safety inspections.

　　However, in Liu Chong's view, some inspection items are reasonable, such as the inspection of student growth files, student physical fitness monitoring and campus food safety.

　　In terms of supervision, inspection, evaluation, and evaluation, provinces such as Heilongjiang, Sichuan, and Yunnan also stipulate that supervision, inspection, evaluation, and evaluation activities involving primary and secondary schools and teachers that have not been approved and reported by the party committee at the same level shall not be carried out.

In addition, Sichuan proposed that if electronic files can be used in the supervision, inspection, evaluation and assessment items, paper documents should not be required.

Yunnan restricts that in a work year, the frequency of the same supervision, inspection, evaluation and assessment item shall not be carried out more than twice.

　　The reporter combed and found that the burden reduction checklists issued at the provincial level were about 18 items, which basically covered clearing and streamlining of existing items, filling out relevant reports, and rationally arranging special tasks.

　　"It is necessary to prevent copying and copying of the burden reduction lists at the prefecture, city, county and district levels, drawing gourds in the same way, and generally coarse. Through field research, it is clear that the area is unreasonably burdened by specific items and which are necessary teaching requirements. It's easy to distinguish." Shaanxi Normal University professor Hu Jinmu said, "These contents have a positive effect on reducing the burden on primary and secondary school teachers, but it will take some time for the burden reduction effect produced by the policy to become apparent."

Social affairs not related to teaching, yet to be clarified

　　Prior to this, various social tasks unrelated to teaching "entering school" have become a new trend.

Chen Huaming, the principal of a primary school in Xinxiang City, Henan Province, told reporters that various tasks such as poverty alleviation, drug control, the creation of civilized cities and sanitary cities have all entered the school and teachers are required to participate.

"These creation activities have incomplete preparations, incomplete forms, and incomplete archives."

　　In this regard, many places have made specific provisions for reducing the burden on different types of activities.

　　Guangxi proposes to carry out activities such as civilized, sanitary, green, livable, tourism and other cities to create excellence. In principle, it is not allowed to arrange primary and secondary school teachers to go to the streets, not to assign mandatory tasks to participate in voluntary activities, and not to require participation in online publicity voting. And other activities.

Hainan stated that elementary and middle schools have the right to reject matters that are not related to education and teaching assigned by towns, towns and communities.

Qinghai stipulates that all kinds of creation activities for primary and secondary schools and teachers shall be strictly reviewed and checked by the education department. Those that can be merged shall be merged, and those that can be cancelled shall be cancelled.

　　The burden of elementary and middle school teachers is reduced by 20, which clearly states that it is necessary to coordinate and standardize social affairs into campus work. Activities and tasks that are not related to education and teaching cannot be compulsorily allocated to elementary and middle schools, and schools cannot be arbitrarily suspended from classes and outside the venue to hold related activities.

　　Until now, Chen Huaming still "has no courage" to refuse non-teaching activities into the campus. "Poverty alleviation, drug control, and civilized city creation, what are the activities that have nothing to do with education and teaching? Under what circumstances does the school have the right to make decisions?" she said , To ensure a quiet teaching order in the school, so that teachers can devote themselves to teaching work, and the content of the project needs to be clearly included in the file.

Strict management of the WeChat work group, the "internal burden" also needs attention

　　Unfinished materials, unfinished forms, unfinished activity materials...In various reports, many front-line teachers lamented that they often drove overnight and wrote materials, and most of their time and energy was spent on desk work .

　　With the popularization of smart phones, various work groups, official accounts and apps have emerged, and many teachers are struggling to cope with the push and mandatory voting regardless of time.

　　"Now every teacher has ten or twenty WeChat groups and countless apps. They must follow all the time and be ready to work overtime at any time." Chen Huaming worries, "This way, the enthusiasm for education is wasted, and many people are bored. "

　　The reporter combed and found that many provinces mentioned in the burden reduction list to reduce the workload of filling in reports and standardize the WeChat work group.

Among them, Jiangxi stipulates that party committees, governments, and education departments at all levels must strictly regulate the filling of reports involving primary and secondary schools and teachers, make overall arrangements according to needs, and eliminate the phenomenon of repeated reporting of various data and multiple filling of forms.

　　Sichuan proposed that it is not allowed to simply leave traces as a criterion for judging the effectiveness of the work of schools and teachers, and that methods such as uploading screenshots of work scenes or recording videos in WeChat work groups and government affairs apps should not be used to replace actual work evaluations.

　　Qinghai makes it clear that it is strictly forbidden to force schools and teachers to use book subscriptions, reading activities, and learning apps that have not been reviewed and filed by the party committee or the government. Schools and teachers must not be forced to pay attention to various WeChat official accounts that are not related to education and join QQ groups and WeChat groups. Wait.

　　Guangxi proposed that primary and secondary school teachers should not be required to pay attention to WeChat official accounts that have nothing to do with education and teaching.

In this regard, Hu Jinmu raised a question: "How to determine an excellent WeChat public account for education and teaching is still unclear. There is no standard for who will perform the screening and judgment."

　　"In addition to the work of appraisal, filling in forms, sampling, etc., there are still a lot of burdens related to education and teaching, such as excessive teaching tasks caused by the lack of teachers, and the correction of excessive homework under exam-oriented education. The over-work-load communication carried out by ten parents, etc." Hu Jinmu called these "internal burdens", "in the context of examination-oriented education has not been completely reversed, social education mentality is generally anxious, and there is still strong competition among students. , Teachers have a long way to go to reduce the burden."

　　(Reporter Chen Peng)