China News Service, April 9th. According to the website of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education recently issued the "Guiding Opinions on Vigorously Promoting the Scientific Connection between Kindergartens and Primary Schools" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding Opinions").
The "Guiding Opinions" mentioned that elementary schools must strictly enforce the exemption of entrance examinations, and strictly prohibit all kinds of examinations, competitions, training results or certificates as the basis for admissions, and insist on zero-start teaching according to the curriculum standards.
The "Guiding Opinions" clarify the main goals: to comprehensively promote the implementation of school preparation and school adaptation education in kindergartens and primary schools, slow down the gradient of convergence, and help children smoothly realize the transition from kindergarten to primary school.
The educational concepts and behaviors of teachers and parents in kindergartens and elementary schools have changed significantly, an effective mechanism for collaboration between children and children has basically been established, and a scientifically connected educational ecology has basically taken shape.
The "Guiding Opinions" mentioned key tasks: to change the weak awareness of cohesion and the separation of elementary and kindergarten education, establish a cooperative cooperation mechanism for children, build a ladder for children to transition from kindergarten to elementary school, and promote two-way convergence.
Change the situation of excessive emphasis on knowledge preparation, over-standard teaching, and advanced learning, standardize the educational and teaching behaviors of schools and off-campus training institutions, make reasonable preparations for school entrance and school adaptation, and do a good job of scientific connection.
Change the unsound connection mechanism, establish a mechanism of administrative promotion, teaching and research support, educational institutions and parents' participation, and integrate multiple resources to achieve effective connection.
The main measures mentioned in the "Guiding Opinions" include:
The kindergarten prepares for school.
Kindergartens should implement the "Guidelines for the Study and Development of Children from 3 to 6 Years Old" and the "Guidelines for Kindergarten Education", promote the comprehensive and harmonious development of children's body and mind, prepare for the basic quality of enrollment, and lay a good foundation for life-long development.
It is necessary to further guide teachers to establish the concept of scientific convergence, and the next semester of large classes should help children to prepare for life, society and learning in various aspects, and establish positive expectations and yearning for primary school life.
It is necessary to prevent and correct the wrong practice of simply moving the environment, educational content, and educational methods of elementary schools to kindergartens.
Primary school implements school adaptation education.
Primary schools should strengthen the sense of cohesion, take admissions education as an important task of deepening the teaching reform of compulsory education courses, and incorporate it into the first-grade education and teaching plan, and the education and teaching methods should be connected with kindergarten education.
The state revises compulsory education curriculum standards, adjusts the first grade curriculum arrangement, rationally arranges content gradients, and slows down the teaching progress.
Primary schools set the first semester of the first grade as the entrance adaptation period, focusing on the implementation of entrance adaptation education. Local curricula, school curricula and comprehensive practical activities are mainly used to organize and carry out entrance adaptation activities to ensure class schedules.
Reform the first-year education and teaching methods, and the national curriculum mainly adopts the methods of gamification, daily life, and integration to strengthen children's exploratory and experiential learning.
It is necessary to effectively change the phenomenon of neglecting children's physical and mental characteristics and receptive ability, and resolutely correct the wrong practice of exceeding standard teaching and blindly catching up with the progress.
Establish a joint education development degree.
Teaching and research departments at all levels should make the connection of young and primary schools an important part of teaching and research work and include them in the annual teaching and research plan, and promote the establishment of a joint teaching and development system for interoperability and content integration between preschool and primary schools.
Teaching and research personnel should go deep into kindergartens and elementary schools, determine research topics based on practical needs, guide regional teaching and research and kindergarten (school)-based teaching and research activities, and summarize and promote good practices and experiences.
Encourage elementary schools and kindergartens in the school district to establish learning communities, strengthen teachers' research and exchanges in child development, curriculum, teaching, and management, and promptly solve outstanding problems in school preparation and school adaptation practices.
Improve the home-school co-education mechanism.
Kindergartens and elementary schools should regard parents as important partners, establish an effective home-school coordination and communication mechanism, and guide parents to actively cooperate with kindergartens and elementary schools to jointly do a good job in connection.
It is necessary to keep abreast of the problems and opinions and suggestions of parents in school preparation and school adaptation, actively publicize relevant national and local policy requirements, publicize and display the scientific concepts and practices of the two-way connection between young and primary schools, and help parents recognize excessively strengthened knowledge preparation and study primary school in advance The harm of the content of the course, relieve the pressure and anxiety of parents, create a good family education atmosphere, and actively cooperate with kindergartens and primary schools to make a good connection.
Intensify comprehensive governance.
Educational departments at all levels shall, in conjunction with relevant departments, continue to increase the control of off-campus training institutions, elementary schools, and kindergartens that violate the laws of education, and carry out special governance.
To implement relevant national regulations, off-campus training institutions shall not train pre-school children in violation of regulations.
Elementary schools strictly enforce the exemption of entrance exams, and strictly prohibit all kinds of examinations, competitions, training results or certificates as the basis for enrollment, and insist on zero-start teaching according to the curriculum standards.
Where kindergartens meet their needs, elementary schools may not hold preschool classes.
Kindergartens are not allowed to teach the content of elementary school courses in advance, do not assign reading and writing as homework, and do not set up pre-school classes. If kindergartens experience the loss of children from large classes, they should promptly understand the reasons and whereabouts and report to the local education department.
The education department should, based on relevant clues, seriously investigate and blacklist out-of-school training institutions that accept pre-school children to conduct training in violation of regulations, include the blacklist information on the national credit information sharing platform, and implement joint punishments in accordance with relevant regulations.
For kindergartens and elementary schools with serious violations of school rules, the principal, headmaster and relevant teachers shall be held accountable.