"Double reduction", how do children spend their spare time?

【Ask about the livelihood of the people】

When the spring semester started, the students of Jiang'an Primary School in Wuhua District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province played a lot of "new" games between classes: "How tall are the gates of the city gates", "Weave flower baskets", "Turn flower ropes"... The school put these 70 The childhood games of the post-80s and post-80s have become wall paintings and introduced to students to enrich their extracurricular life.

Since the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, students' burdens have become lighter and their spare time has increased.

The primary and secondary school students who were stuck in the sea of ​​questions and "rushed to the field" in the training class in the past have regained their playtime.

However, a new problem is placed in front of parents: how to plan when there is more time?

Will children's academic performance decline if they let their children play?

The delegates have their own opinions on how to properly treat children's spare time.

1. Respect students' initiative and cultivate internal drive for growth

　　The golden autumn semester of 2021 is a bit different from the past. The mother of Kang Keyi, a sixth-grade primary school student, carefully observed that the number of children running in the community increased significantly in the evening. No need to enroll your child in remedial classes.

But she admits that she still has some worries in her heart while clapping her hands and applauding: "Without remedial classes, what should I do if my child's grades can't keep up?" "If I don't do homework at home, can the effect of classroom learning be consolidated?"

　　"Some parents' worries will be difficult to completely eliminate in the short term, but with the virtuous cycle of education ecology, the anxiety of social groups that have been coerced by a large area of ​​tutoring institutions in the past will be greatly improved." Representative Liu Xiya, principal of Chongqing Xiejiawan School, said .

　　"Faced with the change of students having more spare time, playing more, and less homework, parents' confusion and worry actually reflect misunderstandings in their understanding. Many parents and even some educators believe that good learning results must come from time accumulation and repetition. Brushing the questions is actually not the case.” Representative Liu Xia said, for example, Xiejiawan School has carried out more than 10 years of curriculum reform and exploration to reduce burden and improve quality: subject courses in the morning, clubs and special activities in the afternoon, and no bell to and from get out of class throughout the day; In junior high school, students are guaranteed 10 hours of sleep, one physical education class and nearly 2 hours of outdoor sports activities every day; during the buffet lunch time, students can freely communicate and watch news.

"A lot of practice has proved that: the adequacy of exercise, the openness of communication, the adequacy of sleep, and the positive emotional experience are highly positively correlated with academic performance and education quality. Children show group characteristics of sunshine, self-confidence and excellent grades." Liu Xiya said the representative.

　　"Many parents hope to see their children grow through the improvement of their grades in the short term, but a child is a developing person and must respect the law of his growth. Any practice of 'promoting growth' will not have a positive effect." The Party Committee of Beijing Shijia Education Group Committee Secretary and President Wang Huan supported the clarification of the roles and responsibilities of parents and schools. She said: "The cultivation of children's moral quality and the development of behavior habits are the top priorities of family education; school education is more focused on educating students The overall improvement of moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic work, the score is only a temporary gain, and a healthy and mature personality is the most important."

　　Whether it is after-school services or time after returning home, teachers and parents should respect students' initiative, and through joint discussions and sharing of opinions, students should eventually fall in love with learning, sports, and reading.

In Wang Huan's view, this internal drive can affect a child's life.

2. Students exercise more, read more, think more, parents learn more, communicate more and accompany more

　　In the past, after school and on weekends, cake baker Ms. Zhang sent her children to various training classes. The mother and daughter had little communication every day, and even quarreled from time to time.

　　After the "double reduction", Ms. Zhang realized that it was inappropriate to blindly pressurize children.

After discussing with her children, she signed up for interest classes such as painting and chess, and the rest of the time was arranged by her daughter.

"The children are more self-disciplined now and have more and more smiles on their faces. Our family also has more time to go outdoors together, which is very good!" Ms. Zhang said.

　　Representative Cui Jianmei, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Education Group of Bengbu No. 1 Experimental School in Anhui Province and the principal of the main school, also found that in the past six months after the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, students, teachers and parents have never adapted to adapted, from skeptical to raised their hands in approval, huge changes.

　　Last fall semester, Bengbu No. 1 Experimental School introduced football, chess, Lego robots and other clubs in after-school services.

"But there are still some parents who say they will not participate and only ask their children to attend homework remedial classes." Representative Cui Jianmei introduced that this semester, the school clubs have become more diverse, including fencing, Chinese painting, Chinese dance, etc., and the registration of clubs has become very popular. The number of clubs was sold out in seconds, and the number of children participating in homework remedial classes was greatly reduced.

　　"The richness of extracurricular life has made students more fond of classroom learning, because they can apply classroom knowledge to the development of their extracurricular interests." Representative Cui Jianmei believes, "The whole society must work together and participate together, and increase publicity efforts and help While parents change their understanding, they should also use social expertise to improve the diversity and effectiveness of extracurricular activities.”

　　"'Double reduction' reduces students' heavy learning burden and parents' excessive educational burden, rather than subtracting students' learning responsibilities and parents' educational responsibilities. 'Double reduction' guides how parents and students can use more scientifically In the spare time, let the children grow up healthily, individually and in an all-round way." In the opinion of Liu Xiya, the "Family Education Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China" and the newly revised "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors" are all questions about how to be more scientific The era of "bringing children in accordance with the law" has come, and parents should take the initiative to learn and strengthen their learning.

　　Representative Liu Xiya suggested that students should do more than three things: exercise more, read more, and think more, that is, strengthen exercise in spare time, do more reading outside of class, and feel and think more in practice.

Parents should also do the "three mores", that is, more study, more communication, and more companionship.

With fewer make-up classes, parents can plan their extracurricular life together with their children, encourage, trust, and accompany their children more, so that their children can grow up healthily.

(Our reporter Yang Sa Jin Haotian)