"Minus" time to enrich the growth
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As one of the pilot areas to implement the "double reduction" policy, Shanghai has played a "combined boxing" to explore innovative measures such as learning guidance and after-school services, so that the "double reduction" policy dividend can benefit every family and child.
The “minus” time is enriched by diversified and personalized after-school services and rich parent-child activities, deepening comprehensive education and helping healthy growth.
On Tuesday afternoon, December 7, the children of the "Dream Ice and Snow" club figure skating team of the New World Experimental Primary School affiliated to the Shanghai Theatre Academy galloped on the ice rink of an ice sports center.
Students can receive the guidance of national professional coaches during the after-school service hours and perform ice sports. This is a new phenomenon that Shanghai has further reduced the workload of students in compulsory education and the burden of off-campus training.
As one of the pilot areas to implement the "double reduction" policy, Shanghai has played a "combination box" to let the "double reduction" policy dividends benefit every family and child, and a more harmonious, warmer and healthier educational "new ecosystem" is developing form.
Online famous teachers and offline mentors, all-round education
After the off-campus training for subjects is stopped, can children keep up with their studies?
Shanghai uses its brains to resolve parents' anxiety with innovative measures: strengthening the school’s main position, strengthening and improving free learning services, and launching an upgraded version of “in-the-air classroom” “famous teachers face to face”.
From September 13th, every Monday to Friday night, Shanghai’s second and third grade students can use the "Shanghai Air Classroom" network platform, Shanghai Education Television Station, cable television, and interactive network television to communicate with various subjects. The famous teachers of "face-to-face" listen to the analysis of the difficulties of the course by the special teachers and senior teachers. If you have any questions, you can ask questions online.
Teachers will also focus on answering high-frequency questions that arise in students' daily learning.
In order to ensure students' sleep, the "air class" will end before 9pm, and you can look back on weekends.
Wang Yang, director of the Teaching and Research Office of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, said that the launch of "Famous Teachers Face to Face" is an important measure for Shanghai to play the role of the city’s high-quality educational resources and promote the quality and balance of the city’s compulsory education. The teacher’s courses have played a demonstrative and leading role for other teachers." As of December 1, the "Famous Teachers Face to Face" column had received 3.543 million viewers.
There are famous teachers online and mentors offline.
In September of this year, Shanghai primary and secondary schools fully implemented the "full-staff mentor system"-all teachers in the primary and secondary schools matched each student individually, became the students' "confidantes", and carried out effective home-school communication.
In principle, the ratio of tutors to students should not exceed 1:15. They are not only concerned about their studies, but also the physical and mental health of the students.
Many schools combine the implementation of "double reduction", according to the students' after-school service project selection, extended course electives, club or interest group activities, etc., to accurately match the tutors for students to stimulate learning motivation.
At Luming School in Baoshan District, Teacher Cai Yibing, as a tutor, used the "graffiti" method that children liked to build a bridge to communicate with adolescent students.
"One week mood card" allows children to draw a week's mood.
"Children have their own exclusive tutors, and school life feels warmer." Many parents said happily.
Min Hui, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Education and Health Work Party Committee and deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, said that the full implementation of the "full-staff mentor system" is to further deepen the full, full-process, and all-round "three-dimensional education".
Explore digital application scenarios, personalized teaching
"Xiao Ming's birthday, if you want to distribute a big round cake to the 29 students in the class, at least how many knives do you need to cut?" In the sixth grade mathematics class of Shanghai Baoshan Experimental School, teacher Chen Chun’s questions made the class lively—— This is a "Smart Peer Maths Inquiry Course". With the help of information technology, students from Shanghai Qiuzhen Middle School, Hulin Middle School and Sitang Middle School listen to the class at the same time.
"Lesson preparation assistant", "teaching assistant", and "homework assistant"... In the third elementary school of Pingliang Road, Yangpu District, which is the first to explore digital application scenarios, teachers can attribute students' mistakes in answering questions, and the answering guidance is more targeted. The job layout has new changes in layering, flexibility and personalization.
If students have difficulty completing their homework, they can go to the "Homework Q&A Station" to solve their doubts, and relax in the "Music Chat".
Zhang Zhiwei, the math teacher of Class 4 (5), said: "The quality of homework is higher, and the overall learning efficiency is improved."
Zhangjiang High-tech Experimental Primary School in Pudong New Area has also established a layered homework guidance management mechanism.
Since the school started in September, more than 98% of the students in the third to fifth grades have been able to complete their homework on campus.
Reduce the amount of homework without degrading the quality, use the amount to reduce the quality, and use the homework to inspire the classroom. For this reason, Shanghai has successively introduced measures to strengthen the management of compulsory education school homework. 100% of compulsory education schools have established homework management methods and homework. Publicity system, and through special training to focus on improving the teacher's homework design ability.
Sharing after-school service resources, family-school-community linkage
After 3:30 in the afternoon, children in the second grade of the Experimental Primary School Affiliated to the Education College of Fengxian District, Shanghai, under the leadership of Chinese teacher Zhang Ling, entered the school farm experimental field to study the planting environment and planting techniques of rice.
This is a project-based activity carried out by Zhang Ling's team in conjunction with the school's "Pursuing the Brightest Star" special course during the after-school service hours.
This year, after-school services for elementary school students are included in the Shanghai Municipal Practical Projects for Private Affairs and People’s Support Projects, realizing that 100% of compulsory education schools provide after-school services, 5 days a week, no less than 2 hours per day of custody services.
This has also opened up new space for comprehensive education.
Based on the development of standards, Shanghai encourages one district, one policy, one school, one plan, and a variety of activities in permutation and combination.
Shangyang Foreign Language School of Shanghai International Studies University combined with on-campus social practice, colorful activity courses, after-school social surveys and other resources, designed nearly 40 activity subjects in eight categories, and built more than 30 "one room, multi-purpose" activity class venues.
Meiyuan Middle School offers 12 experience courses such as drones, drumming, aerobics, basketball, and painting. Students take turns to participate in "walking classes".
The Sixth Central Primary School in Hongkou District has developed the "Campus WeChat After-Class Service Intelligent Platform". Students select courses independently every month. The platform generates a table for a lifetime. Student activities and which courses are more popular are clear at a glance, which is convenient for dynamic adjustment.
Breaking down the fence, sharing resources, and co-education between the family, school and community provide a rich and high-quality "source of assistance" for after-school services in the school.
Huangpu District Youth Art Activity Center has nearly a hundred teachers "send teachers home" to elementary and middle schools in the area from Monday to Friday, and provide more than 100 non-profit after-school service courses.
The Student Community Practice Guidance Station of Changqiao Street, Xuhui District invited professional rope skipping institutions to teach. Children and parents from 15 primary and middle schools in the surrounding area can sign up for free public welfare sports courses every week.
They launched a shared list of 58 projects, and cooperated with primary and secondary schools in their jurisdictions to offer high-quality courses such as martial arts, Yue opera, paper-cutting, and rope weaving.
On November 15, the "Shanghai Quality Education Quality Curriculum Project Resources" went online for trial operation. The first batch of courses included four major categories: science and technology education, art education, sports and health, and comprehensive. All primary and secondary schools in the compulsory education stage can use them for free.
Prior to this, the Shanghai Off-campus Education Quality Evaluation Center publicly solicited after-school service projects for quality education for the first time, and all sectors of the society responded positively, and soon received 4821 courses and activities declared by 702 institutions (units).
Under the "double reduction", parents have more time and space to spend with their children.
Not long ago, Shanghai held the first "Parent School Family Education Week", 108 activities focused on the three themes of "Talent View", "Life Education" and "Parent-Child Communication", online and offline interactions, guiding parents to "behavior demonstration", and helping children's health growing up.
"Double minus" plus after-school services allows parents and children to get used to not having written homework. The time "minus" is enriched by diversified and personalized after-school services and rich parent-child activities.
"One increase and one decrease, there are more sports cheering on the playground, more discussions in the classroom, more singing in the campus, and more laughter between parents and children. This is what education should look like." Yang Zhenfeng, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Say.