On July 24 this year, the Opinions on Further Reducing the Burden of Homework and Off-campus Training of Students in the Compulsory Education Stage issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council were officially released.
Today (October 31) is a hundred days after the release of the "double subtraction" policy. What changes have been brought to students and parents by the implementation of this policy, let's listen to what students say and what parents say.
"Double Subtraction" 100 Days What changes have happened to children's school life?
Xu Zepeng, a primary school student in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province: The school started to be delayed this semester, and it was originally 8 o'clock, and now it is the first class at 8:20. It allows me to sleep a little more and more.
Yang Haotian, a primary school student in Beijing: Now, I can complete the general homework at school, and I can still do some of my extracurricular hobbies when I go home.
Dong Xinran, a primary school student in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province: Before the night, I went to bed at 9:30, and now I go to bed at about 8 o'clock at night.
Beijing student parents: In fact, parents at the beginning of the time is not very adaptable, go back to the child said that the homework is done, the heart is always a little bit of a muttering, slowly we also understand the change of this model, after the class service learning time basically solves the homework, there is an hour in the school activities, the child's physique training, I think it is really very good.
Parents of students in Beijing: I feel that the child's spare time is still more abundant, for example, there will be some labor education time every week, and the school specially set up a day is a child's elective class time, and the child also likes this arrangement.
Children sleep more and less time doing homework. From the interview, it is not difficult to see that the implementation of the "double reduction" policy has achieved initial results. This has also made many parents feel happy. And what makes children happiest is that there is more room for happiness to grow.
Zhao Feng, a junior high school student in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province: In the past, the study pressure was particularly great, and the cram school was lined up all weekend, but now the cram school is gone, which saves a lot of free time to read books, draw dot paintings, write and write. Let your hobby develop.
Zhan Lexin, a junior high school student in Beijing: At present, there is only one extracurricular class of mathematics, just one and a half hours, and the time is not particularly long. After-school life is richer, and then you can make more friends.
Zhang Jingzhu, a junior high school student in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province: On weekends, you can have more time to cultivate the interests and hobbies of our students, like me, I like to play table tennis, like to play guzheng.
In the interview, many children and parents also said that the reduction of the homework burden also allows them to have more time to communicate and enhance the parent-child relationship.
Ma Chenxi, a primary school student in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province: Help your mother do some housework, such as taking express delivery. Sometimes my mother would take me out to jump rope and go for a walk.
Jia Jianhui, a parent of a student in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province: Because most of the homework has been done at school, and then we have added a lot of parent-child interaction when we go home, for example, we can go for a walk together, and I can also have time to chat with my children.
Enrich the after-school service model and improve the comprehensive quality of students
From the interview, we can feel the changes brought by the implementation of the "double reduction" policy to children and parents. A large part of this change comes from the increase in after-school services in schools.
This semester, according to the deployment of the Ministry of Education, after-school services should achieve full coverage of compulsory education schools. Up to now, more than 141,800 compulsory education schools across the country have provided after-school services, more than 100 million primary and secondary school students have participated, and the student participation rate has reached 90%.
During the after-school service time, the children of boya school in Kechuang District, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, are completing the day's homework under the supervision of the teacher. Arranging students to do homework and teachers to answer questions and counseling is also one of the main contents of after-school services carried out by primary and secondary schools in Mianyang City and schools around the world.
Luo Kangli, a student at Yuquan Road Primary School in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province: We have some homework problems that we do not know, and the teacher who serves after class will teach us how to do this problem, and then explain the reasons to us, and the homework will be completed better.
On the one hand, it guides students to complete their homework conscientiously, tutors and answers questions for students with learning difficulties, and expands the learning space for students who have spare energy; on the other hand, schools around the world are also actively exploring to cultivate children's interests and strengths and expand their quality by enriching the content of after-school services.
At the No. 2 Primary School in Bazhou District, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province, teachers are carefully guiding students to practice guzheng. The school has set up more than 30 after-school services such as martial arts, dance, and extracurricular reading. At present, the school is still planning to introduce more social resources.
He Junying, Deputy Principal of Bazhou District No. 2 Primary School in Bazhong City: We are ready to hire well-known artists outside the school to give professional classes to children, cultivate children's interests and hobbies, and tap children's potential.
Not only the introduction of outstanding social professionals, many places have also introduced local traditional folk culture skills into the campus, which not only enriches the content of after-school services, but also allows children to feel the charm of traditional culture from an early age.
This is the after-school service class of Jinzhou Experimental Primary School in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, and Chen Fen, the inheritor of the official umbrella of the intangible cultural heritage of Hebei Province, is teaching the children to perform the official umbrella.
Ren Ying, principal of Jinzhou Experimental Primary School in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province: The children are very interested and like it, and we also want to inherit and carry forward this traditional culture. There is a ladder of training, the first and second grades learn knowledge and traditional culture, the third and fourth grades carry out some training in the basic skills of dance, and the children in the fifth and sixth grades organize the stage to perform.
Nowadays, the scope of after-school services in primary and secondary schools around the world is constantly expanding, and the service content is constantly enriching and innovating. In the Education Group of Fanchuan College in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, a "Joyful Movement and Pleasant Thinness" sports class is underway, which is one of the after-school service interest classes offered by the school in the fall semester this year. According to the body shape characteristics of different students, the teacher designed targeted and interesting sports such as Bobby jump, agile circle, duck step, etc., and also guided them from the aspects of diet guidance and nutritious diet to help children develop good exercise habits and be better themselves.
You Zixuan, a third-grade student of Fanchuan College Education Group in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province: I will actively participate in classes, in order to lose weight!
Zhang Guiming, principal of Fanchuan Primary School in Huangyan District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province: We have prescribed more than a dozen or 15 courses for children to choose from in order to be like a grade (grade) to cultivate children's interests and hobbies.
"Arriving early and leaving late" is the new normal for teachers' work
We see that since the release of the "double reduction" policy, the lives of students and parents have changed, in fact, life has changed not only students and parents, in order to make the double reduction policy better landed, from improving the quality of the classroom, to scientific homework management to increasing after-school services, principals and teachers of primary and secondary schools have to cope with more changes.
This semester, the 5+2 after-school service of Nanjing primary and junior high schools was fully launched. As soon as the school started, many teachers posted photos of school after-school services in the circle of friends. Among them, many schools have sent their last child out of school, and it has basically reached 18:30 to 19:00. Spending more than 10 hours in school has become the new normal for many teachers.
At 7:20 a.m., Ms. Xu Ying of Nanjing Ruijin Road Primary School walked into the campus as usual. As the homeroom teacher of Class Six (3), it is perfectly normal for her to enter the classroom before 7:30 every day.
Xu Ying, teacher of Ruijin Road Primary School in Nanjing: Although the school stipulates that teachers arrive at school at 8 o'clock, some children's homes may be far away, and parents and dual employees send their children to school early in the morning. Then as the class teacher, as the main class teacher, we usually enter the class at about 7:30.
Grading homework, attending classes, handling class affairs, Ms. Xu's daily work is very fulfilling, at 15:30, the original school time, she began a new busy.
Xu Ying, teacher of Nanjing Ruijin Road Primary School: Our task is to organize students to complete the corresponding learning tasks and homework during the period of extended service after class, and then they complete the relevant homework at school, so that they can easily rest when they go home.
Teacher Xu told us that the after-school services of Nanjing primary and secondary schools are mainly divided into three periods, homework, extended curriculum, and traditional custodial time. Parents can choose voluntarily, but different choices mean different school hours. 6 p.m. is the time to end after-school services, but in fact most schools do not have a lower limit on this.
Like Ms. Xu, Zhou Sushu, the first-grade class teacher of the Affiliated Middle School of Capital Normal University, will also answer questions for the children during the daily after-school service time. This semester, she also worked with the teachers of the mathematics teaching and research group to teach and polish, and opened two after-school service projects for children, colorful thinking and mathematics clubs.
Zhou Suzhu, the first-grade class teacher of the Affiliated Middle School of Capital Normal University: In the past, I may have been engaged in the teaching task of junior high school mathematics as a class teacher, so I just completed these two tasks. After the "double subtraction", every professional in our education mouth has worked harder than in the past.
Every day, Teacher Zhou can only leave school after 6 p.m. at the earliest, return home, and continue teaching and research and lesson preparation tasks. Under the "double reduction" policy, classroom teaching and student homework should be improved in quality and efficiency, which requires teachers to invest more effort and energy, and it is also a big test.
Zhou Sushu, first-year class teacher of the Affiliated Middle School of Capital Normal University: To further improve teaching efficiency, we need to pour more wisdom. It's a state of being actively facing difficulties now, and that's what we have to do, and that's what it's our educator's job to do.
Huang Qing, principal of Nanjing Mochou Xinyu Primary School: "Double subtraction" tests the school, which needs schools to enrich extended services with diversified curriculum resources and comprehensively improve the quality of students' school life; "double subtraction" tests teachers, who need teachers to continuously improve classroom efficiency, fine homework arrangement, highlight dedication, and give children a happy and rewarding childhood.
Strengthen safeguards to alleviate the pressure on teachers
Teachers are working longer hours, and the changes and pressures of coping are increasing. In the interview, most of the teachers, like Teacher Zhou Suzhu, regarded the work of double reduction as an unshirkable responsibility and took the initiative to face difficulties.
However, if there is more support in terms of protection and more measures in terms of mechanisms, it will not only alleviate the work pressure of teachers and warm people's hearts, but also make this work better. At present, various localities are also actively exploring.
After school services, quality is the key. It is not only to help with homework, answer questions, and let students achieve interest expansion and comprehensive quality improvement in colorful club activities, but also the common expectations of parents. According to statistics, as of the end of October, 89.9% of the country's compulsory education teachers participated in providing after-school services. However, during the investigation, the reporter found that although teachers are working hard to develop curriculum projects, the gap in teachers is still very large.
Sun Hong, principal of Nanjing Confucius Temple Primary School: After the implementation of 5+2 after-school services, we feel that one of the biggest difficulties we face is the problem of our teachers. We have arranged at least 20 kinds of club activities every week, and a total of 132 clubs have been opened, which makes the demand for our club teachers very large.
To this end, Nanjing Confucius Temple Primary School mobilized all teachers, hired external professionals to enter the school to open classes, and mobilized parent volunteers as a reserve force for the club.
In order to alleviate the pressure on teachers in schools, many regions and schools are currently exploring ways to enrich after-school service courses by introducing professional institutions and personnel and purchasing services.
Zhou Wu, principal of Huai'an Primary School in Jiangsu Province: Folk artists, you are like our paper-cutting masters, porcelain carving masters, clay sculpture masters, and Huai Opera Troupe, all of whom are performing extracurricular services for children.
In Beijing Zhongguancun No. 3 Primary School, there are hundreds of after-school service elective courses provided by external institutions, and the teachers in the school are responsible for demonstrating and grinding the content of these courses to ensure quality.
Through the purchase of services, while continuously improving the school's after-school service capabilities, it also allows school teachers to devote more time and energy to classroom education teaching and daily management of students.
In some schools run by groups, they are still trying to make up for the shortage of after-school service teachers through curriculum sharing and teacher sharing.
Chen Lihua, principal of Beijing Chaoyang District Experimental Primary School: For example, like art class, then maybe there are more than a dozen art teachers in the school, so they gather these teachers together. Mondays, Tuesdays may be at the school, Wednesdays at a school, Thursdays at a school, thus achieving the problem of teacher mobility within the group.
In addition, some schools are also exploring systems such as flexible commuting, adjusting management details, hoping to help teachers adapt to the new rhythm as soon as possible.
Gao Yunmei, principal of Shigu Road Primary School in Nanjing: Mainly for this part of the teacher who extends the service to 5:30-6:00, then he has no after-school service time period in a week, he can choose 1-2 days, half an hour in advance, after completing his work for the day, he can leave work early.
Wan Daihong, principal of Nanjing Youfu West Street Primary School: At the same time, our school has launched a warm vacation card for teachers every week, and teachers can use this card to take a break if they feel unwell on one day of the week.
Teacher Li Zhizhi of Mianyang, Sichuan: The after-school service of our school is the voluntary participation of teachers, and teachers are also on duty in turn.
All localities are also safeguarding the rights and interests of teachers by establishing a reasonable remuneration mechanism and giving corresponding subsidies. Jiangsu Province has made it clear that the remuneration for after-school service of teachers in compulsory education schools on statutory working days shall be approved and paid according to the standard of not less than 60 yuan per class hour.
Lu Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education: The subsidy should be in place, such as participating in after-school services, the central document is very clear, to ensure the funding of after-school services, this fund is mainly used to participate in the subsidies of teachers in after-school services. At the same time, we incorporate the teacher's after-school service performance into the evaluation of teachers and the evaluation of performance, as some important reference basis for evaluation, evaluation, performance work distribution, etc., and also play an encouraging role for teachers.
(CCTV reporter Pan Hongxu, Gao Chenyuan, Zhou Peipei, Li Yumei, Wang Xinqi, Liu Su, Huang Xin, Ma Xun, Sichuan Tv, Hebei, Nanjing, Mian, Balcony, Bazhongtai)
Source: CCTV News