China News Service, Beijing, July 13 (Reporter Gao Kai) In response to the relevant situation of compulsory education summer custody service, Lu Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education of China, stated in Beijing on the 13th that it is necessary to make overall arrangements for teachers to volunteer to participate in the custody service Time, the rights and interests of teachers are protected in accordance with the law. Previously, summer trusteeship became the “third semester”, and the argument that “to cancel teachers’ winter and summer vacations” was unfounded.
The Ministry of Education of China held a press conference on the same day to introduce the after-school services of compulsory education and summer custody services.
According to reports, as of the end of May, a total of 102,000 compulsory education schools across the country have provided after-school services, and 64.963 million students and 4.656 million teachers have participated in after-school services.
Among them, the urban school coverage rate was 75.8%, the student participation rate was 55.4%, and the teacher participation rate was 62%. The coverage rate of after-school service schools in some major cities exceeded 90%, and important progress was made in the after-school service work.
Lu Yugang said that in order to guide and support qualified places to actively explore the development of summer custody services, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Supporting the Exploration and Development of Summer Custody Services."
The notice particularly emphasizes that it is necessary to coordinate and rationally arrange the time for teachers to volunteer to participate in the custody service, and to protect the rights and interests of teachers in accordance with the law. It is necessary to ensure the necessary rest time for teachers during the summer vacation, and to allow time for teachers to participate in summer teaching, research and training.
"You can't take up too much time from the same teacher." He made it clear that some media recently said that "the teacher's winter and summer vacations should be cancelled" is unfounded.
Lu Yugang said that summer custody services should focus on nursing care to ensure that students can get adequate rest.
Schools should open classrooms, libraries, sports venues and other resources and facilities, and reasonably organize and provide services such as collective game activities, cultural and sports activities, reading guidance, comprehensive practice, interest development, homework guidance, etc., but must not organize collective make-up lessons or teach new lessons .
He emphasized that it is necessary to actively expand resource channels, make full use of social education resources such as museums, and actively attract college student volunteers and social professionals to participate in school trust services, so that students can make better use of the summer to participate in social practice activities.
Lu Yugang said that the recent media's statement that "summer custody becomes the third semester" is unrealistic. "School custody is not all of the student's summer vacation. On the other hand, the content of custody services is also different from normal semester education. Teaching content."
According to Lu Yugang, the Ministry of Education has recently made special arrangements to further improve the after-school service work of compulsory education, and promote the after-school service work to be further detailed and solid.
To achieve "full coverage, guarantee time, improve quality, and strengthen guarantees."
Lu Yugang said that the Ministry of Education has established a direct reporting system for after-school services and will regularly report work progress in various regions and strengthen work scheduling.
Supervision departments in various regions should regard the development of after-school service work as an important content of supervision and inspection, and promote the implementation of after-school service work.
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