Today (18th), "Beijing's Measures to Further Reduce the Burden of Compulsory Education Students' Homework and Off-campus Training" was officially released.
According to the measures, Beijing will focus on the work requirements of "control chaos, reduce burdens, and prevent risks", and make efforts both inside and outside the school to ensure that the burden of excessive homework and off-campus training, family education expenditures and the corresponding energy burden of parents will be effective before the end of 2021. The reduction has achieved remarkable results within two years, and the people’s education satisfaction has been significantly improved.
Do not arrange mechanical repetitive or punitive operations
According to the measures, the school should formulate homework management methods, establish a homework publicity system, disclose the work of each subject in the class, and strengthen quality supervision.
Homework must be arranged in class, adhere to the whole set of homework, complete revision, timely feedback, strengthen the face-to-face explanation, and the difficulty of the homework shall not exceed the national curriculum standard.
Do not arrange mechanical repetitive or punitive operations.
It is strictly forbidden to assign homework to parents or ask parents to check and correct homework.
No homework assignments in the first and second grades of elementary school
The first and second grades of elementary school do not assign homework written assignments, and appropriate consolidation exercises can be arranged in the school; the average time to complete the written assignments of the third to sixth grades of elementary school does not exceed 60 minutes; the average time to complete the written assignments of junior high school does not exceed 90 minutes.
Individual students who are unable to complete written assignments after hard work should also go to bed on time to ensure adequate sleep.
Do not require students to self-approve and self-correct homework
Encourage the arrangement of layered, flexible, and personalized assignments.
Teachers should instruct elementary students to basically complete written assignments in school, and junior high school students to complete most of the written assignments in school.
Students are not allowed to self-approve and modify their homework.
Students should engage in housework and carry out physical exercises after school
Schools and parents should guide students to complete the remaining written assignments after returning home from school, carry out necessary schoolwork, engage in housework within their capacity, and carry out appropriate physical exercises, reading, and cultural activities.
Guide students to use electronic products and the Internet reasonably to protect their eyesight and prevent Internet addiction.
Schools should provide extended custody services for students with special needs, and can coordinate arrangements for teachers to "flexibly commute"
The after-school service period is divided into two stages for overall planning and system design.
In the first stage, complete physical exercise to ensure that students have 1 hour of physical exercise time per day; in the second stage, classwork guidance and comprehensive quality development activities are carried out. In principle, the end time should not be earlier than 17:30.
For students with special needs, the school should provide extended custody services.
Self-study classes can be opened in the evening of working days in junior high schools.
Schools can make overall arrangements for teachers to implement the "flexible commuting system".
Provide menu-style after-school service items and content for students to choose voluntarily. Schools are not allowed to use after-school service hours to teach new lessons
The school formulates specific after-school service implementation plans, and provides menu-style after-school service items and content for students to choose voluntarily.
Organize excellent teachers to answer questions and provide guidance to students who have learning difficulties.
Carry out a variety of comprehensive quality development activities such as popular science, culture and sports, art, labor, reading, interest groups and club activities.
Schools are not allowed to use after-school service hours to teach new classes.
Appropriate introduction of non-disciplinary training institutions to participate in after-school services
The education department can organize outstanding teachers to provide after-school services to schools in the region where high-quality resources are insufficient or in need.
The education department can appropriately introduce non-disciplinary training institutions to participate in after-school services through selection, and establish an evaluation exit mechanism.
The education department should guide schools to make good use of free online high-quality educational resources, and provide students with free learning resources covering all grades and subjects, as well as high-quality educational resources on legal issues, safety, and mental health.
No longer approve new discipline training institutions. Institutions retained are uniformly registered as non-profit institutions
No longer approve new subject training institutions for students in the compulsory education stage.
Re-examine the registration of existing discipline training institutions, gradually reduce the number, and dynamically clear unlicensed institutions.
The reserved discipline training institutions are registered as non-profit institutions.
Strictly investigate and deal with discipline-based training institutions that do not have the corresponding qualifications and conduct training in multiple locations without approval.
The online discipline training institutions that have been filed must be fully investigated and re-examined and approved according to the standards.
If it fails to pass the examination and approval, its original registration and Internet information service business license shall be cancelled.
Do not occupy national statutory holidays, rest days and winter and summer vacations to organize discipline training
Off-campus training institutions shall not occupy national statutory holidays, rest days and winter and summer vacations to organize subject training.
Subject training time shall not conflict with the teaching time of primary and secondary schools; the end time of offline training shall not be later than 20:30, and the end time of online training shall not be later than 21:00.
Online training should pay attention to protecting the eyesight of students, each lesson should not exceed 30 minutes, and the interval between courses should be no less than 10 minutes.
It is strictly forbidden to exceed the standard and advance training is strictly prohibited to provide overseas education courses
It is strictly prohibited to exceed the standard and advance training, non-disciplinary training institutions are strictly prohibited to engage in subject training, and it is strictly prohibited to provide overseas education courses.
Online training institutions must not provide and disseminate unhealthy learning methods such as "photographic search for questions" that inert students' thinking ability, affect students' independent thinking, and violate the laws of education and teaching.
Resolutely investigate and deal with outstanding issues such as out-of-scope training, poor training quality, vulgar and illegal content, and piracy in accordance with laws and regulations.
Training institutions must not rob school teachers with high salaries; hiring foreign personnel in China must comply with relevant national regulations, and it is strictly forbidden to hire foreign personnel abroad to carry out training activities.
Disciplinary training institutions shall publicize teacher qualifications, fee collection and refund standards, training content, etc. in a prominent place and website of the school.
Incorporate the fees for off-campus training of subjects in the compulsory education stage into the government-guided price management
Strictly control the excessive influx of capital into training institutions. The financing and fees of training institutions are mainly used for training business operations. Unfair competition in the form of fictitious original prices, false discounts, and false propaganda for the promotion of business is strictly prohibited, and industry monopolies shall be resolutely investigated and dealt with in accordance with laws and regulations. .
We will implement the requirement to include fees for off-campus training in subjects at the compulsory education stage into government-guided price management, scientifically and rationally determine pricing methods, clarify fee standards, and resolutely curb excessively high fees and excessive profit-seeking behavior.
The off-campus training institution must report to the education department the enrollment guidelines, course content, teacher qualifications, and fees before each enrollment.
Encourage the implementation of the training fee model of "training first and then charging" and "one lesson, one consumption" training fee model, effectively preventing the occurrence of problems such as "difficulty in refunding fees" and "rolling money away".
Strictly control advertising and publicity and strengthen the management of off-campus training advertising
Beijing belongs to mainstream media, new media, public places such as bus stations and subways, various billboards and online platforms in residential areas, etc., and no off-campus training advertisements are published or broadcast.
Commercial advertising activities shall not be carried out in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, and advertisements shall not be published or disguised in disguised form using textbooks, auxiliary materials, workbooks, stationery, teaching aids, school uniforms, school buses, etc. of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens.
Strictly investigate and punish all kinds of illegal and illegal off-campus training advertisements that exaggerate the effectiveness of training, mislead the public's education concepts, and create anxiety for parents.
It is strictly forbidden to list and raise funds for academic training institutions
Strictly implement the relevant requirements of the central government, and all discipline-type training institutions shall not be listed for financing, and capitalized operations are strictly prohibited.
Listed companies may not invest in discipline training institutions through stock market financing, and may not purchase the assets of discipline training institutions by issuing shares or paying cash.
Foreign capital is not allowed to control or participate in academic training institutions through mergers and acquisitions, entrusted operations, franchise chains, and the use of variable interest entities.
Those who have violated regulations shall be cleaned up and rectified.
Relying on the 12345 citizen service hotline, a special reporting telephone and reporting mailbox have been set up to unblock the supervision and reporting channels.
Schools are not allowed to organize any form of enrollment and placement test. It is strictly forbidden to divide key classes and experimental classes.
Strictly implement the national curriculum plan and curriculum standards, open all the nationally prescribed courses, and strictly regulate the use of teaching materials.
Schools are not allowed to increase or decrease class hours at will, increase difficulty, and speed up progress. The first grade of elementary school insists on zero-start teaching, and other grades carry out teaching according to the teaching plan, so as to teach as much as possible.
Reduce exam pressure, improve exam methods, and avoid any behaviors such as early preparation for exams, unregulated unified exams, excessive exam questions, and exam rankings.
Schools shall not use national statutory holidays, rest days, winter and summer vacations to organize under-age students in compulsory education to carry out any form of collective supplementary classes, shall not organize any form of enrollment, placement examinations, and strictly prohibit the division of key classes and experimental classes.
Optimize teaching methods, promote the construction of "air classroom", "dual-teacher classroom" and "integrated classroom" to improve students' learning efficiency in school.
Expand the coverage of high-quality resources and promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education
Continue to deepen the management of the group's schooling and school district system, promote the orderly flow of all elements of education, and strive to achieve the overall regional coordination of teaching, team, and resources.
Speed up the construction of urban-rural integrated schools and municipal-level integrated high-quality schools.
Expand the coverage of high-quality resources, narrow the gap in education levels between urban and rural areas, regions, and schools, improve the overall education capabilities of schools, and promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education.
Persist in the comprehensive evaluation of morality, intelligence, physical education, art and labor, and explore procedural evaluation
Deepen the reform of high school enrollment.
Actively improve the high school enrollment model based on junior high school level test scores combined with comprehensive quality evaluation, continue to deepen the reform of high school enrollment examination methods, adhere to the comprehensive evaluation of morality, intelligence, physical education, and art, explore process evaluation, and improve the examination based on the characteristics of different subjects And the presentation of results.
Adhere to the study-based examination, further improve the quality of the high school entrance examination questions, and prevent partial questions, strange questions, and problems that exceed the curriculum standards.
Gradually increase the proportion of high-quality ordinary high school enrollment indicators allocated to junior high schools in the region, standardize the order of ordinary high school enrollment, and eliminate illegal enrollment and vicious competition.
All districts are strictly prohibited from assigning enrollment indicators or evaluating schools and teachers unilaterally based on the enrollment rate, and taking "double reduction" work effectiveness as an important content of the district and school’s compulsory education quality evaluation.
Performance tilts to participating after-school service staff. After-school service subsidies can be managed according to labor fees
Improve the security methods for school after-school service funds to ensure that the increase in funds meets the needs of after-school services.
Deepen the performance orientation, and actively lean toward the after-school service personnel.
Further optimize the performance salary plan for teachers in primary and secondary schools to ensure that after-school service funds are mainly used for subsidies for teachers and related personnel involved in after-school services.
The amount of funds used for teachers’ after-school service subsidies is included as an increment into the performance pay and the corresponding items are set up, not as the base for the normal approved total performance pay for the following year.
For those hired outside the school to provide after-school service, the after-school service subsidy can be managed according to the labor service fee.
The performance of teachers participating in after-school services should be used as an important reference for job title evaluation, commendation and rewards and performance salary distribution.
Instruct the school to establish a regular home visit system to improve the parent training system
The education department should work with the Women’s Federation and other departments to establish a parent school or online family education guidance platform, promote the construction of community family education guidance centers and service sites, guide schools to establish a regular home visit system, improve the parent training system, and strive to form a consensus on burden reduction and grow for students Create a good environment.
It is strictly forbidden for teachers to make up lessons with payment until the teacher’s qualification is revoked
It is strictly forbidden for in-service elementary and middle school cadres and teachers to participate in paid supplementary courses organized by other teachers, parents, etc.; not cooperate with off-campus training organizations to introduce students or provide student information for off-campus training organizations; or organize recommendations or guide students to participate in paid supplementary lessons.
Strictly investigate and punish teachers' paid supplementary lessons outside the school in accordance with the law and regulations, until the teacher's qualification is revoked.
Intensify the special supervision of "double reduction" work, and incorporate the results into the annual performance appraisal.
Coordinate the management of off-campus training for 3 to 6-year-old preschoolers and ordinary high school students
In addition, coordinate the management of off-campus training for preschoolers and ordinary high school students aged 3 to 6, and no online training for preschoolers is allowed. It is strictly forbidden to use preschool classes, preschool transition classes, thinking training classes, etc. Children carry out offline subject (including foreign language) training.
New off-campus training institutions for preschool children and subject-based off-campus training institutions for ordinary high school students will no longer be approved.
(Headquarters reporter Wang Xiaojie Zhang Weize)