Under the "double reduction", how can the "big education market" develop high-quality development?
Frontline observation from Jingzhou, Hubei
Our reporter Xiong Qi
Starting this semester, Ms. Gong Tianshu, who lives in Shashi District, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, canceled all her children's off-campus training classes. "Now, children learn more easily and more energetically than before, and we, as parents, have more hope." This is Jingzhou Many parents and children have recently shared the same voice.
The number of colleges and universities in the province is second only to Wuhan. The city has 880,000 teachers and students, accounting for one-seventh of the permanent population... As a major education city, Jingzhou has many centuries-old schools that are well-known in Jingchu, and has also cultivated countless scholars. , capable people, celebrities and pillars.
Since the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, Jingzhou City has been problem-oriented, and has carried out a hundred-day rectification campaign of "optimizing the work style of cadres and optimizing the environment for education development". Teachers' style and other measures are taken at the same time, and the combination of dredging the educational obstacles of social concern and promoting high-quality development, actively creates a good educational ecology for the all-round development and healthy growth of children.
The reporter visited a number of schools recently and found that a series of gratifying changes are taking place in each school.
Delayed service "support" colorful childhood
At 3:30 p.m., the school bell rang, and the children happily closed their textbooks, grabbed rackets, paintbrushes, extracurricular books, etc., and rushed into the hobby club activity classroom excitedly, ushering in their "most looking forward time".
In the table tennis room on the first floor, the children in the lower grades serve and swing under the guidance of the teacher; upstairs, the students in the upper grades hover around the classroom with miniature drones; in the distance, more children are in Running and jumping on the court, laughter and laughter permeated every corner of the campus... This is what the reporter saw at Douhudi Primary School in Gongan County, Jingzhou City recently.
Such a scene is a "new story".
As a township school, 80% of the students of Douhudi Elementary School are left-behind children. "The people who come to pick up their children after school are elderly people with silver hair, and sometimes the parents' meeting is incomplete." Chen Jun, principal of Douhudi Elementary School in Gongan County "The 'double reduction' policy reduces the amount of homework after school, but left-behind children are often left in a 'vacuum state' with no management, no attention, and no tutoring after school."
In recent years, under the guidance of the local education department, the school has vigorously explored and developed after-school care services, established 13 interest clubs, and organized professionals to carry out arts and sports education, so that children can fully find their own interests and hobbies.
At present, all 2,172 students in the school have been included in after-school care services.
"Academic guidance, activities have positions, and specialties are displayed, and the one-hour after-school care service every day is helping left-behind children paint a different childhood color." Chen Jun said.
After delaying the hosting time, when you walk into Dasaixiang Primary School in Shashi District, you will see such a scene: the students of "Beautiful Youth TV" are writing, editing, directing, recording, and launching a series of wonderful TV programs; of students are designing and printing 3D works of various shapes, novel designs for IoT control, autonomously assembling intelligent vehicles, and controlling lively and interesting robots to complete various tasks; students engaged in wood and paper art are concentrating on cutting, cutting, Carving, grinding, practicing various traditional skills...
"Now, I don't have to worry about checking my children's homework every day, and my children don't have to go to various training classes on weekends. We can take our children to watch movies, outings, and reading books... Not only does the parent-child relationship have a harmonious relationship, but also broadens the child's knowledge. , promote the physical and mental health of children, and feel much more relaxed." Speaking of "double reduction", Gong Tianshu, the mother of Wang Zheyi, a student at Dasaixiang Primary School in Shashi, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, said happily.
According to reports, through the combination of aesthetic education culture, Dasaixiang Primary School has opened nearly 50 "Xiuyi" after-school service courses in five categories: aesthetic skills, aesthetics, beauty, beauty, and beauty, including chorus, Go, Badminton, wood art, Internet of Things, Chinese drama, etc.
The course adopts a class system, and all students can choose courses independently across classes and grades according to their interests and needs, which promotes the effective integration of students.
"Our after-school delayed service is not only to solve the problem of 3:30, but also to make full use of after-school practice to enrich campus life, stimulate interest, and promote the improvement of children's comprehensive quality." said Dai Xintang, director of the Shashi District Education Bureau of Jingzhou City. , "At the same time as the implementation of the 'double reduction', the school also has to do additions, reducing the burden on children and parents, and adding the responsibility of teachers and the quality of teaching."
Labor education empowers healthy growth
"Send the hoe forward first, and then dig it in, don't raise it too high." On the afternoon of May 17, in the agricultural area of the practice base of primary and secondary schools in Jingzhou City, Chen Yiqiang, a teacher of the agricultural and forestry practice class, came forward. Practical children explain labor essentials.
Wang Shiyu from the Eighth Squadron of Gongan County Experimental Primary School vigorously swung a hoe to clean up the weeds next to the fruit trees, experiencing the joy of working.
"One porridge and one meal, when thinking is hard-won. After doing it myself, I have a personal experience and feel the hard work of farmers."
Chen Qinghua, deputy director of the Jingzhou Education Bureau, introduced to reporters that by actively exploring innovative modes of base operation, the city's primary and secondary schools have implemented comprehensive practice courses in a centralized manner. The labor education curriculum system with the theme of "food workshop".
Up to now, it has received nearly 200,000 primary and secondary school students in Jingzhou and across the country.
On the morning of May 18, at the Huazizui Junior High School in Songzi City, 10 sets of kitchen stoves were lined up in sequence, and 9 large and small groups worked together to select, wash, cut, fry, fry, and stew. Witnessed the skillful cooking skills of the eight (1) class children of the school.
"This is a great training of life skills. When graduating in three years, everyone will cook at least 30 hometown dishes. Children not only learn knowledge, but also learn how to fill their stomachs." The school principal Li Chuntao proudly Said that cooking class is a weekly compulsory course for students. In addition to the production and sharing of cooking food, Songzi Liuzizui Junior High School also added labor classes such as the planting and management of Baiguoyuan and Baihuayuan.
"Such an ingenious labor class, like a clear stream, is gradually infiltrating all schools in the city." Zhou Yanhua, deputy director of the Songzi Education Bureau, said that by combining the cultivation of students' living ability with classroom teaching, "doing in traditional classrooms" "Subtraction", doing "addition" in the cultivation of life ability, through direct perception of actual operation, enhance students' practical ability, gain knowledge and skills, not only reduce students' learning pressure, but also further enhance students' living ability, become a "double" Beneficial supplement and expansion under the policy of “reduction”.
"Home-School Collaboration" Consolidates Educational Forces
Recently, the Compulsory Education Teaching Quality Assessment and Assessment Team in Songzi City, Hubei Province, entered Changrong Primary School in Songzi City.
Rao Haifeng, the parent of the first class of the third grade of the school, participated in the assessment as a specially invited representative.
"It's the first time for parents to participate in the assessment." Rao Haifeng said that his main task is to enrich the content of the assessment with the information about "parents entering classrooms, lecture halls, and dining halls" collected earlier.
"Parents entering the classroom are also the needs of parents." Zhao Jun, the principal of Songzi Nanhai Middle School, introduced that the school has more than 200 left-behind students in the ninth grade alone, most of whom are looked after by grandparents.
Previously, the school issued a "double optimization" questionnaire, and more than 80% of parents expressed concerns about the lack of effective supervision on weekends.
"It must be a left-behind student, both parents and students must apply voluntarily, and safety responsibilities must be implemented." Nearly 30 parents entered the classroom and became the weekend self-study supervisors.
In the well-received canteen, the door was also opened to parents.
"Look at the environment, look at the process, read the account, and taste the taste." 255 parents from Changrong Primary School in Songzi City walked into the cafeteria not long ago to see how their children's meals are made.
"After three visits, parents can rest assured." Principal Fu Liangsheng said that after the on-site investigation, the parents expressed satisfaction and spontaneously photographed nearly 100 Douyin works.
"Exercising can make us more confident." In the teaching building separated by a wall from the canteen, Deng Shihu, who has participated in marathon events all year round, took the stage for the second time as a parent to tell children the meaning and benefits of sports.
"Through parents from all walks of life entering the classroom to share, the children's horizons have been further broadened, and parents' sense of ownership has been stimulated, which has truly achieved the integration of home and school, and worked hand in hand to escort the growth of children." Deng Shihu said.
"Parents' satisfaction index is the effect index of rectification." Zhou Qiping, director of Songzi Education Bureau, introduced that since Jingzhou promoted the "double optimization" rectification of the education system, Songzi City has adhered to the problem-oriented approach to rectification and promoted "parents" "Into the Three Classes" is fully covered, and 6,334 parents and 869 supervisors of teacher morality and style have entered more than 100 schools of all levels and types in Songzi.
"The integration of home and school is no longer simply a school display and a parent's praise, but a real hand in hand and standing on the same education front."
Take multiple measures to optimize teachers' morality and style
A good teacher's morality is the banner of a school, and it is also the basic condition for stabilizing the teaching staff, improving the overall quality of teachers, and promoting the overall improvement of education.
"What is the meaning of the word 'teacher'? It is a profession, an identity, love, and responsibility!" On March 17, on the podium of the Honghu Bilingual Experimental School, No. 1 contestant Wang Jing brought Such a speech topic.
"What is the noble standard of teacher morality, and what is the definition of a good teacher?" This was another contestant Feng Chaoyang asked himself on stage.
In her in-depth analysis of herself, she frankly admitted her shortcomings in her work, and said with emotion, "For education, if you choose, you must focus on loving it. Only by loving enough can we say confidently." I am an honorable teacher of the people'."
In Honghu City, such a 5,000-strong teacher's morality publicity activity with the theme of "Teacher's Style, Casting the Soul of Education" is being carried out, and the vivid examples are touching; The sonorous words are thought-provoking.
In Jingzhou District, through the establishment of a work mechanism for unannounced visits and inspections at the Education Bureau and the school level, once it is verified, there will be two-way accountability.
Let the behavior of illegal make-up classes be subject to the supervision of the whole society, and there is no place to hide.
In Shashi District, all teachers carried out the oath of commitment to teachers' morality and morality, signed the "Teacher's Morality Construction Commitment Letter", the district education bureau and each school hired teachers' morality and professionalism supervisors, clarified their supervision responsibilities, and established a joint meeting system. The "fresh breeze" of rectifying the weakening of teachers' morality and teachers' violations is blowing across the campus.
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Today, around the theme of "establishing teachers' morality, orthodox style, improving teachers' ability, and casting teachers' souls", various activities are being carried out in various districts and schools, and a good atmosphere of advocating advanced, learning advanced, and striving to be advanced has been formed. , is adding a strong momentum to the high-quality development of Jingzhou education.
A series of data shows the results of tackling the tough problems: Up to now, the number of students who have completed their written assignments within the specified time in Jingzhou has increased from 30% before the "double reduction" to more than 91%; each school coordinates the teaching resources inside and outside the school, not only 85% of the students Teachers participated in the provision of after-school services, and selected and hired 1,447 social professionals to optimize the service experience, covering 97% of the students; 473 schools in the city opened labor classes, with more than 483,000 students participating. Provide strong support for comprehensive development...
"With the help of 'double optimization', the Jingzhou education system is reconstructing a new education ecology." Tao Runhua, director of the Jingzhou Education Bureau, said that in the later work, he will urge schools in various places to establish a normalized management mechanism, consolidate the results of the action, and serve Jingzhou. Education has made unremitting efforts to achieve high-quality development.