Education Reform: Reducing the Burdens of Students from the Source

According to the Ministry of Education website, according to the "Ministry of Education on the implementation of compulsory education stage schools" to reduce the burden of the second quarter of the "notice" (Teaching the first letter [2014] 13) on the supervision of some provinces Inspection arrangements, in early June 2014, the Ministry of Education sent by the education administrative cadres, national inspectors, experts and journalists composed of five inspection teams were Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hubei , Sichuan, Shaanxi Province, a total of ten provinces compulsory education schools to conduct school inspections conduct inspections.

       Overall, all localities to standardize the behavior of compulsory education schools, reduce the burden of students overweight work place in place, a high degree of ideological attention, require specific and clear, adopted a series of effective measures, and achieved remarkable results. But in the inspection also found some non-standard behavior of the school. First, admissions and admissions. Some schools do not do dichotomy nearby school, still take the interview, selective examination or other means of selection of students. Second, the curriculum arrangements. In some places, the total class hours of compulsory school, language and mathematics week exceed the stipulations of the state and the province, and some places have inadequate courses such as sound and beauty courses and local courses. A small number of schools failed to fully implement the requirements of one-hour exercise a day. Third, evaluation of the examination. A small number of schools rank and publish student test scores. In the test results presentation, some schools have not implemented the level of reviews with the way. The number of examinations and subjects in individual schools exceeded the national regulations. Fourth, teaching materials, supplementary aspects. A small number of school students still heavy academic burden, some junior high school students reflect the written homework, practice papers, supplementary materials more. Fifth, the time schedule. Some schools require boarding students to get up at five in the morning, schedules and schedules are not scientific and reasonable. Six is the organization make up classes. Some schools use the weekend to organize students to class. Seven is the school management. In some places the school supervisor of supervising the school supervision is not fully implemented. There are still weak links in the safety management, the Ministry of Education issued a basic education, "anti-drowning caused by a national primary and secondary school (microblogging) parents of a letter" is not fully implemented in place, and some schools will cut the contents of the letter after the release , And some schools do not return receipts. Eight is the implementation of government responsibility is not in place lead to problems. The phenomenon of large classes in some places more common, and some school teaching equipment, lack of teachers in some places, teachers, the phenomenon of the lack of preparation of the more prominent. In addition, "school burden, parent burden, school burden, extracurricular plus negative" phenomenon also exists to varying degrees, reduce the need to further consensus.

        All localities should continue to deepen the compulsory education phase of the school "to reduce the burden of the second quarter" activities, do a good job in reducing the burden of experience in the collection, sorting, publicity, forming a burden reduction efficiency improvement consensus. Schools do not regulate the conduct of the school, to urge them to seriously implement the relevant provisions of the state and provincial requirements, the deadline for rectification of the problems. To increase exposure, investigate and punish, strict accountability of the responsible person, and effectively regulate the behavior of compulsory education schools. It is necessary to deepen the comprehensive reform in the field of education and reduce the burden on students from the source.

        2. List of schools with problems

        Mainly around the typical experience

        First, innovative evaluation methods

        In 2013, Henan Province, Zhengzhou City Bureau of Education and Beijing Normal University (microblogging) cooperation in basic education quality monitoring collaborative innovation center, the implementation of regional education quality health examination and improvement projects in the city's compulsory education phase of the school green index evaluation reform experiment . Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, constructed a "three-whole" monitoring and evaluation system for green education quality evaluation, whole process evaluation and whole collaborative evaluation in the stage of compulsory education, and guided schools to form a green quality consciousness. Qiaokou established six dimensions including the "green quality" evaluation system, introduced the "primary three six-year quality monitoring guidance." Huanggang City, the introduction of the "Comprehensive Evaluation of primary and secondary students program" and "primary and secondary school teachers work evaluation program" to break "to teach", "to study" and other traditional evaluation methods. Anhui actively explore the compulsory phase of the school pilot credit management system, the state provides all the courses into the scope of credit management, rational management of credit management to determine the procedures, methods, focus on student learning process evaluation. And constantly improve the academic level of testing and the overall quality of students evaluation content and methods to reform the primary and junior high school examination results presentation, the abolition of "percentile", the implementation of "rating plus reviews" evaluation methods to reduce the unified test, the requirements of primary schools do not organize schools Examination. Jilin Province, the general phase of the abolition of the "percentile", the implementation of "rating plus reviews" of the evaluation. Liaoning Province, part of the implementation of the grade of primary school academic integral system, the percentage of the paper only as a result of academic achievement 1/5, the test scores in the case of 2 points, full score of 3 points, effectively play the evaluation for the implementation of quality education-oriented function.

        Second, standard enrollment enrollment

        Anhui Provincial Department of Education integrated each year compulsory education enrollment policy published in the provincial media, take the initiative to accept social supervision, and actively explore high-quality high school "joint enrollment mechanism." Hubei Province, the full implementation of exemption from the nearest entrance requirements. Hebei Province issued the "2014 junior high school entrance examination and the general high school enrollment system reform opinions", "to further make compulsory education exemptions near the implementation of the views of school work," a clear provincial high school student enrollment indicators in accordance with not less than 80 % Of the proportion of the balance assigned to the junior high school enrollment reform, the implementation of a comprehensive sunshine enrollment and cancellation of specialty students. In 2013, Shanxi Province issued the "on the migrant workers with their children after compulsory education to participate in the implementation of the examination program", adhere to the "two main" principle, to ensure that the students after the treatment of the same city. Liaoning provincial prefecture-level cities have introduced compulsory enrollment program, provincial demonstration high school, provincial key high school enrollment quota assigned to the proportion of junior high school in the region reached 90%, there are five prefecture-level city to 100%. Migrant workers with their children all arranged to the public primary and secondary schools, to achieve 100% enrollment.

        Third, deepen classroom teaching reform

        Reduce the burden is to improve the quality of education and teaching, doing subtraction at the same time, we must do a good addition. Henan Province, the District of Huaihe Road East Primary School adhering to the "meet diverse needs, pay attention to individual characteristics, the pursuit of diversity and harmony, the wonderful life" philosophy, in accordance with the "let learning initiative, let the course colorful, So that science and technology excellence together, so that drifting up scholarly, easy to get up examinations, "the school of thought, the idea of colorful education throughout the entire process of teaching and teaching. Wuhan City, Hubei Province Education Bureau in 2011 issued "on the implementation of primary and secondary schools and efficient classroom construction project", in the city's primary and secondary schools to promote efficient classroom construction projects. Huanggang City Board of Education issued "on the optimization of classroom teaching model to promote the reform of classroom instruction", and actively explore the autonomy, cooperation and dynamic characteristics of the classroom teaching with a new model. Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang City, West District Education Bureau "to achieve a goal to deal with five relationships, so that four minus four by" teaching ideas. In order to improve teaching quality and improve the quality of teaching, it is necessary to improve the quality of teaching by optimizing the teaching objectives, optimizing the teaching process and improving the quality of teaching in the primary schools of Bei Lin District, Xi'an Beilin District, Shaanxi Province. High classroom teaching mode. Hanyuan County, Sichuan Province, the second secondary school to create "for all students, advocate individuality publicity, focus on specialty training," the school characteristics, the implementation of "three-stage" efficient classroom teaching mode, to prevent students from reading dead books.

        Fourth, carry out a variety of activities

        Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, chessboard primary school with social professional team of teachers, both inside and outside the class, in all grades organize chess, instrumental music, chorus, Peking Opera and other interest activities team, regularly carry out a variety of art professional training and art competitions . Huangmei County, the third primary school to carry out the promotion activities, the development of Huangmei, Yue Jiaquan, Huang Mei Tiaohua school-based curriculum, adhere to the annual reading Festival, Sports Festival, Arts Festival, Science and Technology Festival. Jiangsu Province, Hong Guang secondary school set up a dizzy bamboo, orienteering, egg shell painting, paper cutting and other 21 student organizations for students to build personality development stage. Shanxi experimental middle school adhere to carry out a variety of extracurricular sports activities, student organizations to participate in 90%, the school every Tuesday afternoon to open more than 40 elective courses. Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province, to make full use of the city's rich patriotism education resources, the advantages of patriotism, tradition, environmental education, "one school Liang Liang, one person two" activities as the carrier, carry out a variety of campus cultural activities. Pengshan County, Sichuan Province, Peng Shanxian Peng Li Primary School to fully tap the outstanding traditional culture for the importance of school education, conduct family behavior collection activities, carry forward the traditional Chinese virtues, and effectively guide students to gradually understand and understand the core values of socialism.