How to embrace quality education after "double reduction"
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【News Investigation·Follow Students' Double Burden 8】
Is it to let children enjoy their childhood and have fun? Or pick up the books and study hard?
At the beginning of the new semester, at this moment in the past, parents had to choose between "chicken baby" and "herd sheep" with entanglements and doubts. Recently, with the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, off-campus training institutions have entered an era of "strong supervision". Children are freed from the heavy off-school burdens, and they have more time and energy to develop their personal interests, and parents’ moods have also changed. Much calmer.
However, new problems have become apparent-after the burden is reduced, how to embrace quality education and improve comprehensive literacy?
1. Quality education ushered in a policy dividend period
After the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, in the past summer vacation, Ma Ran, a parent in Beijing, made up his mind that the whole family was freed from the "training rhythm", instead of busy making up lessons and doing homework all day, but bringing the children together. I went to the park and the outskirts and had a wonderful and pleasant holiday.
The child had a tendency to be short-sighted before, and the doctor repeatedly told him to do more outdoor activities, but he couldn't make time. The child was only in the second grade, and the only spare time was taken up by the subject tutoring class.
Ma Ran was anxious, but helpless.
This time, Ma Ran was finally able to report to his daughter for calligraphy and badminton classes.
This is where the child's real interest lies, and he has long wanted to report, "Knowing that this type of quality course is important, parents can't teach it."
The badminton class is arranged on Saturday morning. Every Saturday morning, the child will urge Ma Ran to get up quickly, and the mother and daughter will rush over together.
There is also a new atmosphere in the parent group.
Ma Ran discovered for the first time that some parents "save classes" for their children's sports hobbies.
As soon as the badminton class started to register, many parents swarmed in, and finally had to run three classes at the same time.
What's faster than parents' actions is that many large off-campus training institutions have collectively changed their business scope and added non-disciplinary training content such as art, picture books, technology training, and student off-campus trusteeship.
For example, an educational institution released a new product system, including calligraphy guidance, drama appreciation, outdoor exercises, etc.; some institutions upgraded and started quality growth centers, focusing on art creation, family education, etc.; other training institutions focused on In aesthetic education, it covers literary literacy courses such as reading and acting, stories and speeches.
Quality education ushered in a policy dividend period.
According to data from iResearch Consulting, based on a relatively neutral growth rate of 13%, the market size of my country's quality education industry will reach 532.95 billion yuan in 2022.
Some experts have suggested that when parents pay a lot of attention to skill training in the fields of art, sports, etc., they tend to ignore the core content of "quality education", that is, the cultivation of moral emotions, mental health, innovation and practical ability. .
Luo Zubing, a professor at Central China Normal University, believes that the "double reduction" has created conditions for the development of quality education and promoted the participation of off-campus training institutions in quality education.
However, schools are always the main body of quality education, and off-campus training institutions can only play a supplementary role.
Looking back at the middle school years, Li Yan, who immediately entered Tsinghua University to study for the first degree, believes that he is the beneficiary of quality education.
The middle school in my hometown of Chongqing provides all students with rich and diverse elective courses, including cooking, simulated flight driving, and botany courses, so that everyone can experience a "class battle" in high school.
"In another way, the knowledge in the textbook was enriched and consolidated, and the ability to participate in clubs after class was particularly interesting for us." Li Yan recalled.
2. Quality education is like a small car, and home and school will not “running off the track” by “striving to one place”
In the 1980s, quality education gradually received attention in our country.
Since then, the specific connotation and implementation requirements have been continuously clarified: "focus on cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical ability", "respect the characteristics of students' physical and mental development and educational laws, and enable students to develop in a lively and proactive manner", and "make moral and intellectual education" , Sports, aesthetic education, etc. are organically unified in all links of educational activities."
In 2018, nine departments including the Ministry of Education jointly issued the "Thirty Measures for Burden Reduction", which mentioned that we must adhere to the comprehensive training of moral, intellectual, physical, and artistic, and develop quality education to promote the healthy growth of students.
"Quality education" is often emphasized together with "burden reduction", reflecting the reality that students have become increasingly burdened on the road of pursuing scores for a long time, and quality education has been gradually "nebated".
"The child has just entered high school. Science and technology festivals, art festivals, and sports meets follow one after another, and they are very busy. Children spend more time here than studying." In the eyes of parents Ankairui, the school attaches great importance to quality education. , But once the child’s time and energy for learning is “occupied”, the first person who does not buy it is the parent.
"Put too much energy on quality education, the college entrance examination may have to pay a price." Ankerui said.
Quality education is a long-term process of self-cultivation, and it is difficult to achieve results in a short period of time.
As far as parents are concerned, trying to get their children to do quality education on the test track also faces multiple pressures.
If the "experiment" fails, how can the child's life be restarted?
This is a common concern.
However, some parents have found the answer: as long as they are handled properly, quality education and test-oriented education are not an all-or-nothing relationship.
Beijing parent Shen Shuyan is an "atypical" Haidian mother.
Her son, Yan brother, has been "naked school" from elementary school until he graduated from high school, and has never attended extracurricular classes.
What gave her full confidence is that at the parent meeting, the teacher always emphasized repeatedly, "The children are here, please rest assured that parents do not have to go to extracurricular classes. If there are problems in learning, ask the children to find more teachers to answer questions, teachers Know your children's learning better than people outside."
Brother Yan likes to run since he was a child, and has maintained the champion of long-distance running at the school sports meeting for three years; every time he actively participates in the surfing paper airplane project of the Science and Technology Festival, he is particularly willing to spend time and energy on folding, improving, and flying airplanes; he likes to play the piano and practice piano. Because "can cultivate music literacy, but also relieve emotions."
After several big exams, Yan brother can always face the pressure calmly.
He said, "Probably thanks to the countless setbacks experienced in the badminton arena."
On the path of children's growth, implementation of quality education and full pursuit of scores, which one is better for children?
The results are unpredictable, and only when you look back will you know whether you succeeded or not.
Shen Shuyan believes that "the process is wonderful, and the result will not be bad."
"Quality education is like a small car. Parents, teachers, and schools hold the steering wheel at each end. If they can't do it in one place, the car will run off the track and even stop." Luo Zubing said.
3. Taking into account scores and overall development, it is necessary to link education evaluation reforms
After the semester of the first half of 2021 ended, the students of Haicheng Primary School in Sanzao Town, Jinwan District, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province received a unique report card.
The third-year student Li Jun's report "radar chart" shows that his physical and mental health is a little lower than the school average, and he plans to "increase sports in the next semester."
On the subject learning trend chart of fifth-grade student Wang Ying, “The upward curve of mathematics shows that my mathematics learning is progressing”.
This "Report on the Comprehensive Quality of Happy Teenagers in Haicheng Primary School" puts forward the training goals and evaluation dimensions of happy teenagers based on physical and mental health, noble conduct, intelligent development, elegant taste, and labor innovation.
There are 5 key indicators for each dimension, and several observation points are set under each indicator.
From the curve on the picture, you can clearly see the child's performance in all dimensions.
Quality education has been proposed for many years, but "examination scores" are still rigid indicators.
What kind of soil is needed for quality education to take root and grow?
"Scores and comprehensive development are not contradictory. Based on this consensus, how to promote quality education based on optimizing examination evaluation methods is the key issue that needs to be solved urgently." "Initiating curriculum reforms and reforms in educating people will always have immediate results, but it will also bring about a series of problems.
As a living person, students have their own personalities and characteristics, rather than products on the educational assembly line.
Chen Weixian said, "In the process of implementing quality education, how can we not only meet the needs of parents and students for further studies, but also improve the quality of quality education? This requires a joint education evaluation reform, which has a huge test for schools, principals, and teachers."
The "double reduction" opinion puts forward that all localities should actively improve the high school enrollment model based on junior high school level test scores combined with comprehensive quality evaluation, and improve the test methods and performance presentation methods based on the characteristics of different subjects.
With the gradual advancement of education reforms, many places across the country are exploring the inclusion of art subjects in the pilot reform of the senior high school entrance examination, and the inclusion of scoring subjects in the admissions of high school entrance examinations.
At present, Hunan, Jiangsu, Yunnan, Henan and other provinces have included aesthetic education subjects as formal assessment content in the scope of the senior high school entrance examination, and other regions are also accelerating the pace of entering the high school entrance examination for aesthetic education.
Starting from 2022, Shanghai plans to apply the comprehensive quality evaluation information of junior high school students to the process of independent enrollment, quota allocation, and comprehensive evaluation admission of high school students, so as to truly "see the score and see the others."
"The cultivation of overall quality is different from subject teaching and knowledge learning. It is a diffuse and slow process that requires comprehensive and long-term training and nurturing. The contradiction between quality education and exam-oriented education lies in China. A classic problem in front of education.” Luo Zubing said that solving the contradiction between quality education and test-oriented education requires a process. Contradictions can be fundamentally resolved.
(Our reporter Chen Peng, our correspondent Chu Sijia)