How are the after-school services of the Urban-Rural Interface Department doing?
How can schools in the urban-rural interface department do a good job in after-school services after the "double reduction"? The primary school of the urban-rural interface department of Baiyun District actively develops special curricula and teaching, the parent committee plays a leading role in organization, students actively sign up for after-school services, and parents of students especially love physical education courses. However, there are also widespread difficulties in schools with insufficient teachers, which need to be solved urgently.
Mawu Elementary School students actively answer questions in the after-school service class
Observe the active development of featured courses
Baiyun District Mawu Primary School is located in the urban-rural junction, with a total of 580 students in 14 classes, but the enthusiasm of parents and students to register for after-school services is surprising, and more than 400 students have registered for quality courses more than 900 times. Principal Deng Huizhen introduced that the school's after-school service features hosting 18 courses, including sports, art, science and technology. The number of students enrolled in sports courses is the largest, especially ball, which is very popular, with more than 100 badminton players, more than 80 football students, and more than 100 basketball players.
In addition, starting in November, about half of the school's students have achieved flat sleep during the school lunch break: grades 1-4 sleep on small wooden beds or thick yoga mats that can be folded; 5th and 6th graders do not sleep on tables.
Luogang Village Primary School in Baiyun District is a typical urban-rural junction primary school, with a total of 530 students, and 11 special courses have been opened in after-school services, with about 300 applicants, accounting for about 60% of the total number. Among them, the number of applicants for hard pen and soft pen courses is about 100. Vice Principal Yuan Yuehua introduced that calligraphy courses have always been in short supply because parents can quickly see the learning effect. In addition, the number of applicants for sports quality courses is also quite large, and football and athletics varsity teams have been formed.
After the "double reduction", after-school services are opened, students have more time in school and have more time for teaching and research activities on special themes. Some comprehensive practical curriculum projects and labor education projects have been independently developed for teachers. For example, the "City Vegetable Garden" has been opened in the Mawu Primary School, where students of each grade and each class have their own "responsibility fields", and the students grow their own vegetables and fruits such as cabbage, cabbage hearts, broccoli, orchid beans and sweet potatoes, write observation diaries, and make enzyme fertilizers. In addition to being a pilot school for small vegetable gardens in the city, Mawu Primary School is also an experimental school for the teaching and research base of labor education disciplines in Guangdong Province.
Experience The Parents' Committee plays a leading role
According to the person in charge of Ruide Education, a third-party institution that provides after-school services for more than 20 primary and secondary schools in Baiyun District, most of the parents of the primary schools in the urban-rural interface department are villagers or migrant workers, and they are more sensitive to the price of after-school service special courses. In addition, some parents have insufficient awareness of the quality cultivation of students, and even if they have the financial ability, they only report basic care to their children. In fact, the school's characteristic hosting courses are more cost-effective, and they also enjoy the rising platform of examination, competition, exhibition and performance.
Among the primary schools in the Urban-Rural Interface Department, Mawu Primary School is one of the schools with a high enrolment rate for after-school services, what is the experience? Principal Deng Huizhen introduced that the school actively played the role of the parent committee to coordinate, organize and mobilize the power, "the school communicates with the parent committee in advance about the opening of after-school service courses, the grade parent committee drives the class parent committee, each class is divided into several groups, a family committee answers questions for the parents of a group, and several parent committees drive a class." Parents who encounter difficulties in platform registration and course selection will be helped by the family committee, and the whole school will be driven. ”
Due to the shortage of physical education and art teachers, the school also hopes that more children can participate in after-school special courses to improve their comprehensive quality and complement the school curriculum. Yuan Yuehua said: "I hope that more and more parents can strengthen their children's awareness of scientific training, change their educational concepts, and attach importance to the learning of special courses. ”
Difficulties Teachers generally wear multiple jobs
At present, Guangzhou has vigorously increased the number of degrees in the compulsory education stage, and each district is building new primary and secondary schools. Compared with the new schools and the schools in the central area, the teachers in the primary schools of the urban-rural interface department are more tense, and the students' time in school after the opening of after-school services is extended, and the pressure of insufficient teachers is more prominent.
Deng Huizhen said that since the launch of after-school services, the biggest problem is that there are not enough teachers. "Mawu Primary School should have had 31 teachers, but now there are only 24 teachers, 6 temporary teachers, and 1 government employee."
Luogang Village Primary School currently has 30 teachers, only 16 teachers, 3 government employees, and the rest are top teachers.
What should I do if there are insufficient teachers? One person multi-tasking. In the primary school of the urban-rural interface, the teachers are generally multi-tasking, and each person is an "all-rounder". A principal told reporters that some teachers at the school should teach five courses: language, morality and the legal system, science, music and art. It is common for a teacher to take several classes.
As the principal, Deng Huizhen also has to teach and supervise in addition to management, teaching English in a class of 6th grade, 4 lessons a week. There was a time when there was no physical education teacher at all in the school, and all the teachers in the school had to be physical education teachers at the same time. (Text/Picture Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Jiang Jun intern Tian Xinyan)
Source: Yangcheng Evening News