Near the summer vacation, Mr. Chen, who has artistic expertise, was very moved to see that the summer family training classes in recent years were extremely lively. After a brief understanding of the training market, Mr. Chen began to get busy for the children's art training class in the summer vacation. He rented an idle house in the center of the county town as a classroom at the price of 500 yuan/month. Many paintings he was proud of were posted on the wall, and his past award certificates were also displayed in a conspicuous place in the classroom. The "classroom" is equipped with painting utensils, small tables and chairs, blackboards and easels. Teacher Chen also hired a friend who used to study art together as a teacher.
Everything is ready except the east wind. In order to attract students, Mr. Chen has made great efforts in publicity. He was busy in front of the computer for a few days and finally designed a popular, attractive and artistic enrollment leaflet and poster. After the enrollment leaflets and posters were made, in order to expand the coverage of the leaflets and prevent the interference of the staff of relevant departments, Mr. Chen chose a quiet night in black for one month and invited good friends to take the paste bucket to the streets. Mr. Chen and several friends were busy until the early hours of the morning, and then put up the poster in a better posture. "Finally you're done. Next, you can wait for the students to come to school at home. " However, a few days later, the summer vacation has begun, and few parents and students call to ask. What's going on here?
Mr. Chen, who was confused, ran to the front of the advertising column and was surprised: the huge advertising column was covered with colorful training class advertisements, and his carefully designed poster advertisements had long since disappeared. Teacher Chen had to act as a "follower" again when it was dark, but before long, many colorful training class enrollment advertisements covered it up again.
Seeing that the summer vacation has passed by one third, there are only a handful of students in Mr. Chen's art training class. Looking at the empty classroom, Mr. Chen complained bitterly. □ Intern reporter Zhu Yujie Our reporter Liang Quanwei Huang Wen Yuwen/map
The story behind the summer training course
With the coming of summer vacation, various training courses are held in BLACKPINK. How many regular training courses are there and what is the effect of two months' training? During the interview, the reporter learned some behind-the-scenes stories of summer training.
Cast a net all over the sky: the story of leaflets
In order to gain a foothold in the fierce training market, strong advertising is essential. The person in charge of a training class told the reporter that before the summer training war came, they invested 20 thousand yuan in advertising fees. "Tens of thousands of leaflets have been printed, and a large number of advertising pages need to be made." After all this was done, they also recruited some people to distribute and post leaflets and paid a certain salary for it.
However, just as they were confidently preparing to launch an advertising campaign, they were caught in a series of heavy rains. After the fine weather, the scheduled start date has passed. "Twenty thousand dollars is ruined." Several people who were invited to hand out leaflets disappeared, so they had to hire someone at a high price temporarily.
Next, they pinned all their hopes on the second phase of enrollment, re-made some leaflets and posted them everywhere. Hatefully, a few days later, they found that many of their leaflets were covered by leaflets from other training courses. Although some of them got rid of the dusty fate, they were replaced by the contact numbers of other training courses. As a result, in the few days of registration, their registration office was empty. They had ambitious plans to build a training base similar to the network in Quanzhou, but in the end they could only be downgraded to keep the size of two classes.
"In fact, the training course is not a good place to make money as some people think." The person in charge said with deep feelings. □ Intern reporter Guo Xiaofeng Our reporter Huang Wenzhao
On-the-spot Classroom: The Story of Teaching
A brick house without decoration was used as a classroom, several narrow benches were used as desks, some small plastic benches were moved as chairs, and a normal college student was a teacher himself, so a rural summer training class was set up. In Fengwei Town, Quangang District, although I heard about it in advance, when I arrived at the scene, the reporter was still surprised by the training course held in a place similar to a construction site.
It is understood that this training course mainly recruits students who are about to enter junior high school after graduating from primary school. There are more than a dozen students, and this training course is offered by a student who is not a normal college graduate. She told reporters that she started this training course to enrich her summer vacation life, and also to increase some teaching experience and accumulate some experience for teaching after graduation.
To this end, as soon as the summer vacation arrived, she borrowed an empty house from a relative's house that had not been renovated, and at the same time recruited several children from a neighbor's house to run such a simple training class. As for teaching equipment-desks, chairs and small blackboards, they are also borrowed from relatives.
The reporter found in the interview that there are quite a few simple family training classes like this. A few faculty members are often invited to recruit some students nearby, so that summer training courses can be held openly in the family restaurant. □ Intern reporter Chen Our reporter Liang Quanwei
Sixth grade: the story of grading examination
"Last year was only the national piano level, and this year I am going to apply for Level 7; Last year, I was a national piano Grade 2, and I am going to apply for Grade 8 this year. Nowadays, many parents want their children to succeed, and some summer training courses are also encouraging. In fact, this is not a good thing for children. " In an interview, Deputy Director of the Municipal Youth Palace Ye told reporters about a scene that happened in the piano exam last year.
Deputy Director Ye said that piano is called "the king of musical instruments", and learning piano is very beneficial to people's body and mind, so it has always been a hot spot of summer training in our city. 1992 after the piano grading system was implemented, piano training was out of control. "Last year, there were more than 1400 people who took piano exams in our city, and the number of people who participated in the training far exceeded this figure." However, many people who learn the piano are caught in the misunderstanding of learning the piano for the exam. It is very common to blindly pursue passing the exam quickly and skip two or three grades. "In order to meet the requirements of parents, some training teachers require students to study hard and practice at home for several hours every day. Even if you barely pass, what real skills can students learn? " □ Intern reporter Chen Our reporter Liang Quanwei
Too bored to attend the training class.
However, some summer training courses can't recruit students, and many primary and middle school students stay at home all day and feel bored. "In addition to watching TV all day, I really want to start school early." Li Tongxue, a fifth-grade student at Quanzhou Guangjin Primary School, complained.
Facing the long summer vacation, there are not a few primary and middle school students who are as confused as Li Tongxue and even feel "holiday boring". Nine-year-old Huang Yuquan is a third-grade student at Xiyu Primary School. Her daily schedule is as follows: doing homework at 8: 00- 10: 30 in the morning, 10: 30- 12: 00 to watch TV, 12: 00- 13: 00 to watch TV. 15: 00- 18: 00 do your homework,19: 00-210: 00 watch TV or go shopping, and start sleeping at 2100. "In addition to eating and sleeping, I can only watch TV and do my homework. Homework is very troublesome and boring. " Huang Yuquan said that she likes traveling and wants to attend summer training courses such as guzheng and martial arts. But halfway through the summer vacation, his parents still refused to let him enroll in the training class, and he didn't know why.
Ms. Wu, her mother, explained why her children were not allowed to enroll in the summer training class: "Now there are advertisements for training classes all over the sky, many of which are aimed at cheating money." Besides, how much knowledge can you learn in a summer vacation? It is better to let children play by themselves. However, there are not many places where children can play now. "
In the interview, the reporter found that there are not a few parents who are skeptical about the summer training class. Ms. Liu, who runs a restaurant on Zhongshan Road, told the reporter: "The training courses provided by the society now are very unreliable, and many of them are for exams. I think a holiday is a holiday. I would rather let my children sleep at home than go to a training class. " □ Chan Sarah Chen Guihong
Look at the problem and reduce the fire.
"At present, there are more than 150 training courses in our city, but none of the summer training courses held in the society have obtained the qualification to run classes." A few days ago, when interviewed by this reporter, the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Education Bureau said so.
In the subsequent interview, the reporter found that there are many problems in the summer training class for primary and secondary school students in our city.
According to the survey, there are all kinds of training courses at present: some are college teachers, some are staff engaged in certain professional and technical occupations, some are retired teachers, some are secondary school graduates or kindergarten teachers, and so on; The types of training courses are varied: piano, violin, calligraphy, Chinese painting, dancing, singing (including chorus, bel canto, etc. ), English, computer ... "Do whatever is popular; Do anything that needs to be graded; Do things that can attract the attention of parents and children; There are also a variety of places to run classes: some are at home, students come to the door, and teachers teach, focusing on training courses such as music and art; Some rent houses to teach in places with convenient transportation and busy people.
At present, the market competition of Quanzhou summer training course is fierce, but there are also some irregularities in the competition. According to Ye Ruifang, deputy director of the Youth Palace, some training courses go to schools and kindergartens to recruit students or distribute small advertisements before the summer vacation. Some schools run their own training courses, and teachers let students attend their own training courses. In addition, some parents' ignorance of training courses has also led to the popularity of many non-standard training courses.
Deputy Director Ye said helplessly that at present, the number of applicants for summer training in the Youth Palace in Fuzhou and Xiamen is between 6,000 and 8,000. As the largest youth palace with the most comprehensive training courses in the province, Quanzhou Youth Palace has less than 2,000 applicants, which shows the influence of irregular competition. □ Intern reporter Li Our reporter
Quanzhou summer training
Summer training courses are nothing new in recent years. For a long time, it has occupied a place in China's education system. Some middle-aged people in our city, even the elderly, have participated in summer training courses. The development of summer training courses also reflects the development and progress of the times to some extent.
It is understood that 1956, Quanzhou Youth Palace began to offer winter and summer training courses. At that time, the training program was only song and dance, which was monotonous and there were not many students. In the 1980s, because many primary and middle school students had the ideal of "being scientists in the future", science and technology training courses such as airplane model, empty model and car model were very popular. But now many parents think that model training is mainly "playing", which is of little help to children. As a result, the number of science and technology training courses has shrunk dramatically, and almost no students can be recruited.
Since 1990s, Quanzhou's training courses have entered a period of rapid development. What training courses were popular at that time? Because electronic organ and piano are the hottest, the training course is mainly about electronic organ and piano. But now the types of music training classes have basically covered all kinds of musical instruments. Grading is an important factor in the popularity of music training classes. 1994, only dozens of people in Quanzhou took the music test. 1997, about 200 people participated. Since 1998, the number of candidates has almost doubled every year. There are more than 2,200 people taking music exams this year, including piano, about 1400 people.
In recent years, Quanzhou's art, English and computer training are also very hot, especially English, which has developed rapidly and is likely to catch up with others.
During the period of 1993, Quanzhou Youth Palace offered English and computer training courses at the same time, with an average of more than 500 English classes and 300-400 computer classes each year, but the number was less than that of social training courses. The reason is that there are too many similar training courses in society, many of which are "selling points" for college teachers and foreign teachers, attracting many students; Moreover, parents are psychologically preconceived that the Youth Palace mainly teaches songs and dances and musical instruments, and it is better to learn a foreign language in a special training class outside. In addition, in recent years, computer education has been integrated into the daily teaching of middle schools and even primary schools, and computer training courses have gradually become dull. In the past, 200 computer training places in Youth Palace were in short supply. After 2000, it gradually cooled down, and now a class can only recruit more than 70 people.