Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client on September 16 (trainee reporter Hu Huiyi) According to the latest data from the Wuhan Youth Vision Prevention and Control Center, the myopia rate of Central China Normal University First Affiliated Middle School Optics Valley Tangxun Lake School in 2020 fell by 4 percentage points, far better than the overall myopia rate of adolescent students in the country in the past three years on average by 0.5 percentage points per year. On September 16th, the national launching ceremony of the third myopia prevention and control publicity and education month and the construction of the national myopia prevention and control reform pilot zone for children and adolescents were held in Wuhan, and more than 50 experts and educators from all over the country visited The Townson Lake School for the first time to investigate their good measures to reduce the myopia rate of students.
Cheerleading demonstration for elementary school students between classes. Photo by reporter He Xiaogang
Yangtze River Daily reporter saw at the school scene, between classes, many children in the corridor activities, some students in a group of two lifted the elastic net to catch the upward throwing "healthy eyeballs", the lights in the classroom are soft light "eye lamps", teachers will also remind students from time to time to maintain "one foot and one inch a punch", the school shows the characteristic school curriculum including national standard dance, badminton, basketball, shooting, printmaking, calligraphy... Not only that, in terms of teaching management, Lake Town school opposes "full classroom irrigation" and "sea battle", advocates Pomodoro time management, and also breaks the limitations of the classroom and creates an "outdoor classroom" to let students do middle school and play in school, and the school actively promotes zero homework or less homework to reduce the burden on students as much as possible.
At the scene, the "Intelligent Student Vision Health Management Principal's Studio" displayed by Townson Lake School attracted many people to stop and inquire. The reporter learned at the scene that the principal's studio refers to an intelligent system with the principal as the first responsible person, the school responsible for organization and management, and the Wuhan Youth Vision Prevention and Control (Prevention and Control) Center providing technical support. The entire principal's studio mainly manages the school's vision health management work through the cloud intelligent management platform, deeply combines the three core work contents of student health education, independent health assessment and independent vision health monitoring, and solves the problems of personnel and technical deficiencies in the school's normalization of student myopia prevention and control work. Sun Zeyan, a student in the fourth grade 10 class who took the self-test on the spot, said that at the beginning of each semester and at the end of the semester, they would self-test their vision here, and the data displayed in time after the test could see whether his vision remained stable this semester.
On-site data show that since 2018, the myopia rate of Tangxun Lake School has shown a downward trend year by year, and it is lower than the level of the whole city, principal Wang Xinhua said: "Every child, not only to have books, but also to have a sea of stars, not only to learn, but also to pay attention to health and achieve comprehensive development." The emergence of the principal's studio with the help of technology can also help students better manage themselves and help educators understand students more deeply and comprehensively. ”
The reporter learned that at present, nearly 100 schools in Wuhan have set up a vision prevention and control principal's studio, and have achieved obvious results in discovering students' myopia and interfering with bad behavior. In 2018, Wuhan was awarded the national "Youth Student Vision Health Management Demonstration Zone" by the Ministry of Education, and in the next three years, Wuhan will popularize the construction of a "principal's studio" to help students smoothly pass through the sensitive period of eye development.
Liu Peijun, deputy director of the Department of Physical Health and Arts of the Ministry of Education and a first-level inspector, said on the spot that at present, the prevention and control of myopia in Children and Adolescents in China is achieving three historical changes, from the strategic transformation of "myopia correction as the center" to "myopia prevention and control as the center", and entering the stage of great health; from the policy change of "special myopia prevention and control as the leading" to the "comprehensive myopia prevention and control as the leading" to the period of great education; from the "biomedical - myopia prevention and control as the focus" to the "educational behavior - myopia prevention and control as the focus" of the model change, Step into the era of great health. The prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents is both a special action and a systematic project; promoting the vision health of adolescents is both a top priority and a long-term plan. It is necessary for the whole society to take action together to reverse the idea of "emphasizing treatment over prevention", take good care of the vision of young people, and give them a "bright future".
【Editor: Wu Xilei】