This year, the admission notice of a candidate in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province sparked heated discussions, and the candidate scored 742 points in the high school entrance examination, but applied for Yancheng Preschool Normal College.
This unconventional choice immediately sparked heated discussions among netizens, how to look at the other track of the high school entrance examination?
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Straight into a teacher after 7 years?
According to media reports, a mother in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, posted her daughter's high school entrance examination score of 742 points on social platforms and got the admission notice of Yancheng Preschool Normal College.
Some netizens expressed their incomprehension and thought that parents were short-sighted, while others thought that everyone had their own ambitions, and it was good to have a solid foundation for employment.
According to the girl's mother, the child's seven-year examination through the training of normal orientation students "came out to become primary school teachers directly." There is no shortage of money at home, and I just hope that the sister and brother will have an easy and happy life in the future.
The reporter saw from the official website of Yancheng Preschool Normal College that Yancheng City will start a pilot training of "seven-year normal orientation students" from 2021, and the pilot training institutions are Yancheng Preschool Normal College and Yancheng Normal College, and the pilot majors are "primary education" and "preschool education".
According to the information on the school's official website, in accordance with the principle of "early enrollment, county to county, targeted employment, and post and arrangement", the pilot work of "seven-year training of normal orientation students" will be carried out.
Before admission, the parents of the candidates shall sign a tripartite agreement with the training institution and the education bureau of the county (city, district) where the student is from, and after graduation, the education bureau of the place of origin will arrange for the student to teach in a rural public kindergarten or primary school, and the service period shall not be less than 5 years.
In addition, according to Yancheng Normal University's "2023 Jiangsu Province Rural Teacher Orientation Training Plan Filling Q&A", after graduation, rural teacher orientation normal students report to the education bureau of the county (city, district) where their household registration is located, and according to the comprehensive score ranking, they will choose to teach in rural schools with vacant posts.
The comprehensive score is calculated according to the method of 30% of the assessment score of the training institution, 30% of the written test score of the national teacher qualification examination, and 40% of the targeted recruitment examination score organized by each county (city, district) at the time of graduation.
In addition, rural teachers are not allowed to apply for a full-time higher level of education before graduation and during the service period.
After graduation, if you do not come to the post to teach or do not complete the service period, you are not allowed to apply for graduate school within five years, and you cannot apply for public institutions in Jiangsu Province within the service period, and you need to pay liquidated damages.
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high heat,
Is the admission score higher than that of a public high school?
Different from the "five-year consistent system", the "seven-year through normal orientation student" system is seven years.
In the first five years, Yancheng Preschool Normal College is registered as a five-year junior college, and those who have completed the study period and passed the grades will be awarded a college graduation certificate by Yancheng Preschool Normal College;
Those who meet the requirements for college graduation will participate in the "special transfer" transfer examination jointly organized by Yancheng Normal University and Yancheng Preschool Normal College, and the students who have passed the examination will be registered as an undergraduate student of Yancheng Normal University;
Those who have completed the two-year study period and passed the grades will be issued a graduation certificate by Yancheng Normal University (the graduation certificate is marked with the words "starting point of junior college, undergraduate Xi"), and a bachelor's degree will be awarded to those who meet the requirements for degree awarding.
According to the 2021-2023 "Seven-year Cultivation of Normal Orientation Students" score line announced by the Yancheng Education Bureau, the admission score line of the project is also increasing year by year.
The cut-off score for admission to preschool education has increased from a maximum of 685 to a maximum of 720, and the cut-off score for admission to primary education has increased from a maximum of 692 to a maximum of 738.
In comparison, in the first batch of public schools in Yancheng District in 2023, the highest admission score is Yancheng Middle School in Jiangsu Province, with only 723 points. The official website of Yancheng Preschool Normal College also mentioned that "the admission score line exceeds the admission line of the four-star hot high school in the county and city where the household registration is located".
The reporter noted that in 2023, Yancheng will enroll 90 students in the "Cultivating Normal Orientation Students" plan, 71 in primary education, and 19 in preschool education, with a total of 4,887 people registering. As you can see, the competition is quite fierce.
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Another track in the high school entrance examination, what do you think?
In fact, in addition to Yancheng, Nantong, Xuzhou and other places in Jiangsu Province have also carried out a pilot project of "seven-year training of directional normal students". In recent years, similar explorations have been carried out in many places across the country to cultivate more basic education teachers who can "go down, retain, use well, and go far".
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences, said that the heated discussion among netizens is actually more of a projection of their own ideas. He believes that girls' decisions should be respected, and advises girls to lay a good foundation to better adapt to the needs of the future workplace.
"There was no such clear policy before the seven-year training of oriented normal students, but objectively there is such a practice, and many 'old middle school teachers' train students are connected with some colleges and universities. ”
Chu Zhaohui said that there was a policy in a certain place that the top few students in the local high school entrance examination must study normal, and this measure has left many excellent teachers in the local area. The policy was made under specific circumstances at the time, and now there are more options for further education than before.
He believes that candidates should make choices as rationally and objectively as possible based on their advantages and potential and the needs of their development in the future, rather than choosing which direction is better and which is more popular.
Xiong Bingqi, president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, believes that such a choice is not surprising. Judging from the enrollment situation of the high school entrance examination, some high-scoring candidates in various places choose the middle school and higher vocational programs, especially the seven-year middle school through the program, and the admission score even exceeds the general high school score line.
Xiong Bingqi pointed out in an article that the Vocational Education Law, which was amended last year, clearly defines vocational education as a type of education that develops on an equal footing with general education.
In order to build vocational education into a type of education with distinctive characteristics, one of its important "indicators" is that students with high scores in the high school entrance examination can choose vocational colleges that suit them according to their own personality and interests, rather than choosing general high schools or secondary vocational schools according to their scores.
Everyone faces different situations and has their own practical needs for future planning, and choices made based on reason should be respected.
Our society should be able to tolerate different value choices, and our social evaluation system should not be limited to one. Faced with the problem of poor information for application volunteers, it is necessary for schools, platforms and other sectors to work together to deal with it.
The newly revised Vocational Education Law clarifies that vocational education is a type of education with the same importance as general education. However, while encouraging multiple choices, we must also see the prejudice of "emphasizing academic qualifications over skills", the social concept of "being able to be a native but not specialized", and the entanglement of "although the higher vocational position is good, I don't want my children to go to it......
All of this has a certain basis in reality and needs to be taken seriously.
Vocational education needs to be further developed and optimized to solve parents' worries, remove the label of "short-sightedness", and make candidates' choices truly a far-sighted choice.