Teacher's Day Feature | After class, our teachers are brilliant

This year marks the 37th Teachers' Day in the country. Under the background of "double reduction", in the new semester, teachers have also ushered in their own "burden reduction" - reducing work that has nothing to do with education and teaching. So, where should the reduced burden be added? On September 8, at the Golden Autumn Series Press Conference held by the Ministry of Education, Ren Youqun, director of the Department of Teacher Work, gave a clear answer - to work harder to improve the quality of homework and after-school service.

Therefore, this year's Teachers' Day, teachers lit up "unique work" after class.

Cross-border: Chinese teachers teach Peking Opera

In the new semester, every Wednesday afternoon, after-school service bell rings, Jiao Xiangyu, a Chinese teacher at Zhongguancun No. 2 Primary School in Haidian District, like a "face change", changes into a Peking Opera costume and begins his "B-side teaching" - in the Peking Opera Club, leading students to practice singing and doing martial arts. This is an interest he developed 15 years ago, since he was in middle school, and now, it has become a student club to shine in after-school services.

In the class, in addition to learning the regular skills of Peking Opera such as singing and doing martial arts, students also have to learn related cultural lessons to understand the knowledge of Peking Opera and how to appreciate it. "We usually start learning in the basic way of acting, teaching students to sing a song or two, and then participate in rehearsal and role playing." In terms of teacher composition, in addition to Jiao Xiangyu, the school will also hire some relevant professional teachers to enter the classroom to provide students with more diversified curriculum resources.

Jiao Xiangyu believes that the opening of peking opera club courses so that students can learn to sing is only one aspect, more importantly, he hopes that through the form of Peking opera, it will become a "medium" and transmit the charm and connotation of traditional Chinese culture to students. This is also his original intention to introduce Peking Opera into the classroom. Jiao Xiangyu told China Net reporter that since 2015, he began to consciously integrate some Elements of Peking Opera into his chinese classroom, initially just to activate students' interest and "add color" to classroom teaching. But slowly I found that this form was very popular with students, and even in his class, all students could fluently sing one or two peking opera excerpts. This effect surprised Jiao Xiangyu, and at the same time prompted him to hope to systematically teach Peking Opera to students. Therefore, with the support of the school, he took the lead in opening an elective course of Peking Opera in the grade, which all students in the grade could choose to take. Until now, Peking Opera has become a special club of the school, accommodating 30 members and fixed on the after-school service hours every Wednesday.

This semester, Jiao Xiangyu will mainly teach the basics of Peking Opera in the after-school service, and lead the students to rehearse the new play "Reading for the Rise of China". It is hoped that through this way of learning, students' patriotic feelings will be enhanced and their sense of home and country will be cultivated.

Major: Born in the class to coach the "Zero Threshold" football club

In the autumn new semester, in order to enrich the content of after-school services, Peixin Primary School has arranged more than 100 club courses for students, and the football club is one of them.

Yang Can is a physical education teacher at Peixin Primary School, graduated from The First Sports University majoring in football, and has been responsible for the training of the school football team. In the new semester, he took on a new assignment to coach the school's second- and third-year soccer clubs, scheduling two classes every Wednesday and Friday for one and a half hours each, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

"Each school segment has 15 places, which are uniformly placed on the course selection platform and are open to students, which is very popular with children." Yang Can said that although he is from a science class and has many years of experience in leading the school team, he does not dare to slack off when he takes over the football club, because "parents trust the school, we have to take responsibility and let the children gain something." ”

"In the past, leading the varsity football team was a 'two-way choice', but the football club became a 'one-way choice', and only the students chose our share." Yang Can said that because of the different groups of students, the curriculum objectives and training methods must be adjusted, so after receiving the task, he and the school's other two physical education teachers responsible for the training of football clubs re-designed the curriculum according to the five keywords of "learning to play and supplement practice". "Learning", that is, learning football knowledge, rules, understanding the history and charm of football, on the basis of which to learn simple skills such as dribbling, passing, passing, passing, etc.; "playing", that is, playing with children, so that they have a stronger interest in football; "auxiliary", that is, auxiliary, tutoring exercises. In order to make up for the lack of course time, the three teachers extended the football class from the playground to the online, through video demonstration guidance, etc., so that the children can learn and practice after class; "do", that is, through the teachers' real efforts, so that the children really gain in terms of knowledge, ability, physical fitness, coordination, etc.; and "practice", is through the systematic and perfect curriculum design, so that children can receive professional and scientific football enlightenment.

"The children who sign up for the football club are basically zero-based, and there are many female players who join. The reason is that the zero threshold of football clubs, so that those girls who like football finally have the opportunity to learn and experience, so the registration is particularly enthusiastic. In the future, the children of these football clubs are likely not to take the professional route, but since they like football and parents trust the school, as teachers, they will have to take responsibility. Of course, if a good seedling is found, it will also be absorbed into the school team, and the talent will not be buried. Yang Can said that next week, the football club of Peixin Primary School will usher in the first lesson of school, and they are ready.

Ministry of Education: After the double subtraction, teachers should work after-school services

In the new semester of "double subtraction", teachers are also an important part of the "double subtraction". The topic of teachers' "burden reduction" has always attracted the attention of all walks of life. At the press conference held by the Ministry of Education before, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education also made it clear again that the burden reduction of teachers is the burden that has nothing to do with teaching and educating people, and the burden that is reduced should be added to improving the quality of homework and the level of after-school services.

Reducing the burden on teachers is a key issue of the Party, the State, and the Ministry of Education in recent years. In 2019, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Several Opinions on Reducing the Burden on Primary and Secondary School Teachers and Further Creating a Good Environment for Education and Teaching, which particularly clearly stated that it is necessary to clean up and standardize the work in schools that are not related to education and teaching, so that teachers can be liberated from heavy things that should not be undertaken by teachers, and stimulate their kinetic energy and enthusiasm for education. In the past two years, all localities have actively responded to the call of the central government, introduced a list of burden reductions, black and white lists, and established relevant systems for overall planning and standardization.

However, Ren Youqun, director of the Department of Teacher Work of the Ministry of Education, stressed that "teachers' investment in teaching and educating people should be deserved, and this is not a burden." "Burden refers to things that they shouldn't take on. In the new semester, the "double subtraction" was launched, and its overall overall goal is to further improve the quality of education and teaching in the school, and the after-school service can meet most of the needs of students and better return to the campus. This requires our teachers to work harder to improve the quality of homework and the level of after-school service.

The Ministry of Education will also further optimize the allocation of teacher resources and promote the effective implementation of teacher burden reduction.

China Network reporter Xu Hong Liu Jia