At present, some local functional departments are promoting their respective work to campus through various channels. "Little hands holding big hands" has become a loud slogan, and tasks that are beyond the reach of children must also be "started from children." At a young age, I have only a little knowledge or even no understanding at all, and I still have to explain and publicize relevant policies to my parents. Many teachers jokingly said that various "little hands holding big hands" activities "pull" and "pull" children hard, turning children into the "Thousand-Hand Guanyin".

"Little hands holding big hands" is miserable

  “Teaching used to be the main job, but now teaching is a side job.” “Materials are reported every two days, and lesson preparation can only be done in the spare time.” Banyuetan reporters learned from the investigation that some departments currently often add tasks to schools to carry out so-called “extended education.” , and some even use it as a "master key" to advance their own work.

  Many teachers in the western region said that some "little hands holding big hands" activities are indeed helpful to pass publicity and education through schools and children to families, and then extend to society, forming a good atmosphere for schools, families and society to jointly promote. In reality, some functional departments have a lazy political mentality and lack overall planning and scientific arrangements in promoting publicity and education work. They just throw it at the education department and schools without distinguishing specific situations, and put pressure on teachers and students.

  Prevention of drowning, prevention of gas poisoning, food safety, road traffic safety, fraud prevention, contacting the masses for assistance... In a primary school in a rural town in the west, in front of Ban Yue Tan reporters, a teacher counted the items in his daily work on his fingers. Non-teaching tasks can’t be counted on 10 fingers. Ban Yue Tan reporter saw in his office two rows of filing cabinets filled with document boxes, half of which were filled with anti-drowning documents alone.

  “Some policy propaganda activities are relatively professional and policy-oriented and require a certain level of cognitive and language expression skills.” A teacher said, “We teachers don’t understand it very well, let alone children in their 10s or even younger. They If you can’t figure it out or explain it clearly, you are not the right person to participate.”

  "Non-teaching tasks are still coming to school, and they are even getting worse." A female primary school teacher said that after the school received a task to download and install an App from the relevant department, it divided the tasks among the teachers. Currently, her own The task was not completed yet, so I had no choice but to send a message to WeChat for help. "Many teachers around me who had not completed the task were notified and even asked to talk to the leaders."

  The female teacher revealed that once the relevant departments required the school to launch an anti-drug knowledge competition, with students from fifth to ninth grade participating. All students must complete a 100% registration rate on the electronic terminal and complete the prescribed hours before taking the exam. Higher-level departments rank each school based on its completion status and regularly announce which schools have failed to meet the enrollment rate. "Notices came down from level to level, and the requirement we received was that every student must score 100 points in the test. No mistakes are allowed. It is said that students are being tested, but in fact it is all the teachers who are doing it." The female teacher said, if Letting students take the exam by themselves does not guarantee that everyone can get 100 points. In the face of hard requirements, they can only make small moves, otherwise it will involve more energy later. "If you do it, it will change and it will become formalism. Students don’t really get much education out of it.”

  A principal of a rural primary school in the west said that now most functional departments can arrange work for the school, and teaching energy has been severely squeezed. "Relevant departments are entering the campus to engage in various activities related to topics such as integrity, public welfare, confidentiality, and environmental protection. They are soliciting essays, making videos, and performing programs. They are not only tormenting students and teachers, but also tormenting parents." A person from somewhere in the west Primary school teachers said that previously, relevant departments had asked teachers to investigate parents’ involvement in gangs and prison sentences through their students.

  A parent of a student in the west revealed that his child is in the first grade of junior high school. Recently, his child’s teacher has been tasked with promoting anti-fraud knowledge. The pressure is quite high, so he begged many parents, including himself, to help him complete it. "We need to fill in the name, ID number and other information on an App to show that we have learned it, and then send a screenshot to the teacher, and attach the teacher who recommended it." The parent said that for the sake of the children, then Even if you are busy, you have to go through the motions. "This kind of thing makes the teacher tired and the parents are also tired."

Various activities "ride" into campus

Brings multiple disadvantages pictures

  Experts interviewed said that although relevant departments have made clear demands in recent years to put an end to the practice of transferring administrative tasks to schools, in fact, some tasks "enter campuses and classrooms", resulting in some primary and secondary schools bearing additional burdens that they cannot shake off and earn. "Do not take off", many non-teaching tasks interfere with normal teaching, and the disadvantages of formalism affect the healthy development of the campus.

  Xiong Bingqi, a researcher at the 21st Century Education Research Institute, said that starting from babies is a model that has been used to rapidly advance work in many places in recent years. Its essence is formalism. Some departments use this to show the importance they attach to related work. This work idea not only interferes with the school's teaching activities, increases the workload of teachers, but also reduces students to tools of formalism.

  "The time we spend on non-teaching activities has exceeded the time spent on teaching activities, which is not consistent with the functions of the school." A teacher in a southern county said that many activities now involve students, such as cooperating with certain activities The theme promotion requires students to complete essay writing, handwritten newspapers, etc., and these require parents to participate or even be completed by parents. "Many parents are busy with work and don't understand this. They often focus their grievances on teachers, which can easily lead to the deterioration of home-school relations."

  Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, said that frequent "little hands holding big hands" makes teachers and students tired of coping, highlighting the imperfection of top-level design. In reality, many projects can "merge similar projects", but they lack a strong supervision mechanism.

  Some teachers interviewed are worried that many activities are carried out on campus just to complete so-called tasks. They are only pragmatic and not realistic, which wastes everyone's energy. The prevalence of this trend is likely to have a negative impact on the formation of children's good character.

  Refrain from formalism,

  Let education "go into battle with ease"

  Industry insiders call for strict regulation of various "entering campus" activities to return peace to campuses and time to teachers. While paying attention to reducing the burden on students, we also pay attention to reducing the burden on the teaching team so that teachers can feel at ease in classroom teaching and student education.

  Chu Zhaohui and others suggested that documents and notices "entering the campus" should be controlled to keep out the school gates content that is difficult for children to understand and inappropriate, so as to prevent relevant departments from indiscriminately issuing instructions that interfere with the normal teaching work of the school.

  Many grassroots educators suggested optimizing the responsibility mechanism and clarifying the scope of responsibilities of party and government departments, education administration departments, communities, schools and teachers. The government should supervise in accordance with the law and change its functions from command to support, coordination and evaluation. At the same time, we should implement the national teacher burden reduction policy and the burden reduction lists of various provinces and cities to prevent various inspections from "hitching a ride" into the campus.

  Many teachers believe that in order to truly reduce the burden and pressure on teachers, they must be targeted. Education departments and schools should further optimize the assessment mechanism, actively improve evaluation methods, and improve the teacher evaluation system so that teachers can have more teaching autonomy, not be bothered by things unrelated to their job, and concentrate on completing education and teaching goals. At the same time, a public supervision mechanism will be introduced, a "black and white list" of teachers' burdens will be formulated, teachers' responsibilities will be clarified, and multiple measures will be taken to eradicate chronic education diseases, reasonably reduce the burden on teachers, and make the education industry "lightweight".

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