Do not secretly change to review classes, and prevent schools from comparing
and actively exploring and carrying out summer custody services. Expert reminders
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While actively exploring the development of summer custody services, local education management departments need to strictly separate holiday activities from semester teaching. The line of defense is not to organize group remedial classes or teach new courses, and they must not secretly turn holiday custody into review. In particular, it is necessary to prevent the secret comparison between schools from causing vicious consequences.
□ Our reporter Zhang Wei
For a long time, compulsory education schools, especially elementary schools, are dismissed at "3:30", which has reduced the burden on students studying at school. This has caused the problem of parents’ difficulty in picking up their children before the end of get off work hours, and some have sent their children off-campus for training. Institutions have increased the burden of excessive off-campus, the phenomenon of "reducing the burden within the school and increasing the burden outside the school", and the "three and a half" problem has become a hot issue of widespread concern in the society.
Schools cannot push all of the students' after-school time to society. The teachers in the school should take care of the basic learning of the students.
On the occasion of this summer vacation this year, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Supporting the Exploration and Development of Summer Custody Services" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") to guide and support qualified places to actively explore and develop summer custody services.
"While actively exploring and developing summer custody services, local education management departments need to strictly separate holiday activities from semester teaching. The line of defense is not to organize group remedial classes and teach new courses, and they must not secretly turn holiday custody into a line of defense. Review classes and cram schools, especially to prevent the secret comparison between schools from causing harmful consequences." said Chu Chaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences.
Cancellation of teachers’ winter and summer vacations is false
Recently, Beijing, Jiangsu, Shandong and many other places have announced that the education department will start summer custody classes for elementary school students.
How to manage public custody classes, how to deal with venues, teachers, and funding, and how to ensure the quality of custody services have become the focus of attention of parents and the society.
"This is an innovative measure to reduce the burden on parents and solve the problem of the people's "difficult and sorrow". It is a useful exploration to strengthen education and care and promote the comprehensive and healthy growth of students." Wang Ming, deputy director of the Education Development Research Center of the Ministry of Education, said that the summer vacation is approaching. Dual-employee families are facing the problem of "children have nowhere to go and parents are difficult to care for".
In order to meet the needs of parents, solve the problem of students’ "difficult care" in summer vacation, and guide and help students spend a safe, happy, and meaningful vacation, some places and schools take the initiative to take the initiative in party history learning and education, and launch summer custody services .
Recently, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice", which clarified the general principles and specific requirements for carrying out summer custody services.
According to the person in charge of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, the "Notice" encourages schools to take an active role.
The "Notice" proposes to start from local reality and encourage qualified schools to actively undertake the work of student summer custody services.
At the same time, the education department should actively cooperate with the Communist Youth League, Women's Federation, trade unions, community and other organizations to provide summer care services for students through various channels and various forms.
The "Notice" guides teachers to volunteer to participate.
"Recently, some media said that'to cancel the teachers' winter and summer vacations' statement is unfounded." The person in charge particularly emphasized.
The "Notice" proposes that teachers should be guided to volunteer to participate in summer care services, but it should not be compulsory.
Teachers who volunteer to participate should be given appropriate subsidies, and volunteer service performance should be used as an important reference for evaluation.
Coordinating and rationally arranging the time for teachers to volunteer to participate in the trusteeship service, and protecting 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.
Students also participate voluntarily.
The "Notice" stated that summer custody services are mainly for families and students who have real needs, and parents and students voluntarily choose to participate, and students should not be forced to participate.
The service content should be arranged reasonably.
The "Notice" proposes that the custody service 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 .
The person in charge emphasized that some recent media statements about "summer trusteeship becoming the third semester" are not true.
Adhere to the principle of inclusive public welfare.
The "Notice" puts forward that it is necessary to improve the funding guarantee mechanism for summer custody services by referring to the relevant policies for after-school services and adopting financial subsidies, collecting service fees or collecting fees on behalf of others to raise funds.
The relevant charging standards shall be formulated by the local education department in consultation with the relevant competent departments, and schools shall not charge fees in violation of regulations.
Can't evolve into the third semester of school
In Wang Ming's view, these principles and requirements stipulated in the "Notice" provide important compliance for local and school practice explorations, help eliminate people’s concerns about summer custody services, and also help protect schools, teachers, and students. And parents’ rights and interests in summer custody services.
"It needs to be emphasized that parents who choose the school summer care can not be'reliable'. After all, the role of family education in the growth of students is irreplaceable. In summer life, parents still have to spare a certain amount of time to strengthen parent-child companionship and enhance Parent-child relationship." Wang Ming said.
Wang Ming proposed that the summer custody service should effectively guarantee the safety of teachers and students.
Especially when the current epidemic prevention and control has entered the normalization stage, and food hygiene problems and drowning problems are prone to occur in summer, the implementation of summer custody services has more important safety responsibilities.
Local education departments and schools should improve the safety management system, clarify the safety responsibilities of the personnel involved in the custody service, formulate safety emergency plans, strengthen safety and health education and normalize epidemic prevention and control, eliminate hidden dangers in the custody site, and ensure the personal safety of teachers and students.
Chu Chaohui pointed out that the objects of vacation trusteeship are young people who are living and growing up with personality, not ordinary objects. The premise is of course to ensure safety, but it cannot stop at ensuring safety.
Parents, custodians, and administrators must all make it clear that parents are the indirect objects of custody services, and solving problems for parents is not the ultimate goal; students are the direct objects of custody services, and the healthy growth of students is the ultimate goal, which is a higher level than safety Needs and requirements should not turn the cart before the horse and neglect children for the sake of parents, and neglect and suppress the healthy growth of students for safety.
Chu Zhaohui reminded that if summer trusteeship evolves into the third semester of students, it will violate this basic principle, and it will inevitably cause harm to the growth of students, directly affect the quality of subsequent learning, and damage students' learning interest, hobbies and autonomy in the long run.
Therefore, the "insist on students' voluntary participation" in the "Notice" is a very important principle.
In particular, it is necessary to prevent how many custody classes will be held in some places, and how many parents and students have carried out custody services as a pursuit of political achievement, which may cause the quality of custody to deteriorate.
Ensure the high-quality development of after-school services
So, what kind of hosting service do students need?
Chu Chaohui believes that the goal should be the healthy growth of students, and this must understand the current situation of students and the problems encountered in healthy growth.
"Excessive academic burden, insufficient physical exercise, too few outdoor activities, lack of opportunities to get close to nature and society, weak knowledge base, narrow access to information, insufficient autonomy, and too strong passivity. These are the comparisons among current students. A common problem. Therefore, from the perspective of healthy growth, students too need a vacation that is very different from the semester, to take a break, to be happy in nature and society, and to learn to arrange their own lives by themselves."
Specifically, the hosting service needs to arrange for students to learn and manage independently as much as possible to achieve more effective growth in the way they like: learn what you like to learn, do what you like to do, and play what you like to play: guide students to plan, Design activity plan, arrange time by yourself, make rules by yourself, supervise and implement by yourself, choose roles by yourself, adjust and improve the plan by yourself according to the implementation status, and conduct self-assessment.
"In order to discover one's own advantages and potential, discover the problems that society needs to solve and shoulder responsibilities, pinpoint one's position: lay the foundation for becoming the best one and find a path." Chu Chaohui said.
According to the person in charge of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, since 2017, the Ministry of Education has actively promoted after-school services and has successively issued the "Guiding Opinions of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Doing a Good Job in After-School Services for Primary and Secondary School Students" and the General Office of the State Council on Regulating Off-campus Services "Opinions on the Development of Training Institutions" and other documents to improve the management system and guarantee mechanism for after-school services.
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.
"At the same time, there are still problems in the after-school service, such as unbalanced work progress in various places, short after-school service hours in some places, insufficient funding guarantees, and insufficient after-school service attractiveness, etc., which need to be further increased. Work hard." The person in charge said.
It is understood that 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 practical. All local schools are required to take after-school service as an important livelihood project to solve the problem of parents’ "difficult and worrying" problems, as an important way to highlight the school’s characteristics of running a school, strengthen the role of the school’s main position in educating people, and to reduce the burden of students’ heavy homework and off-campus An important measure for the burden of training to ensure that after-school services are carried out in an all-round and high-quality manner.