Solve the contradiction between further education and "reducing the burden"
Xu Chuande, director of Nanjing Education Bureau, bluntly said at the forum that the practice of quality education for more than 20 years has encountered some difficulties and contradictions, the most prominent of which is that primary and secondary school students are overloaded with schoolwork, and the resulting psychological burden has never been fundamentally solved. This is not only because of the fierce competition between entrance examination and employment, but also influenced by China's traditional concept of "only reading is high". Educators find that students with the same level of intelligence in the same class are interested in the same learning content and feel relaxed, while others feel bored and miserable. There are also some students with excellent grades in primary school and junior high school, but their grades decline in senior high school, while others are the opposite. Experts in Nanjing have turned their attention to a long-neglected topic-how to improve students' learning ability, help them learn to learn and continue learning effectively.
"Learning ability" can be understood as the sum of learning motivation, learning ability and learning perseverance. Nanjing has launched a long-term study, and started a small sample study on gifted students and students with learning difficulties, hoping to find a rule to let children enjoy learning and study easily.
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Teach less and learn more, leaving students blank.
Yan, deputy director of the School Department of the Ministry of Education of Singapore, said that Singapore's current teaching philosophy is to advocate teacher-student interaction, teach less and learn more, and leave students blank. The Ministry of Education encourages schools to develop distinctive school curricula. If a course is recognized, it will be awarded S $65,438+RMB 5,000. Junior students in Singapore have also begun to learn tailor-made courses.
Sun, the head of Deming government middle school, a famous school in Singapore, said that Deming Middle School was originally a junior high school, and its test scores in Singapore were outstanding, usually among the top five in the country. However, a few years ago, I started to run a high school, which became a six-year consistent system, and now I have made a breakthrough. He believes that the reason for the breakthrough is that the school attaches importance to strengthening students' learning fun and motivation. After the junior high school and senior high school are consistent, there will be no senior high school entrance examination, but some students who can't keep up with their studies will not give up, and ordinary classes will be set up to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. The school emphasizes that the process is as important as the result.
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"Shadow Learning" of Principals in Two Places
Yan, deputy director of the School Department of the Ministry of Education of Singapore, said that such a "Nanjing-Singapore Primary and Secondary School Principals Education Forum" will be held in Nanjing and Singapore every other year. In addition, the two sides will also launch the "shadow learning" project, starting from 20 1 1, and send 2-3 principals and vice principals to each other's schools for 1 to 3 months.
"I was shocked on my first day at work. /kloc-More than 0/000 pupils sat quietly on the floor reading books. No sound, orderly. " Sun Shuang King Kong, the headmaster of Nanjing beijing east road Primary School, has just finished a 25-day "shadow" training at Singapore Daonan Primary School. He is the "shadow" of principals and teachers in Singapore. Look at how they work. The sight of primary school students in Singapore before the flag was raised in the morning made him sigh. "The fifth grade primary school there began to be divided into classes, high-quality classes, ordinary classes and so on. After graduating from primary school, you should take the national unified examination and decide to go to school. The senior high school entrance examination also depends on your grades. The college entrance examination not only tests scores, but also tests extracurricular activities and social practice. " Sun Shuangjin said that Singaporean primary school students only attend classes for half a day. Generally, there are half an hour of junior high school and senior high school classes in the morning, with ten classes a day. There are only two breaks, 20 minutes and 30 minutes respectively, and school ends at 1: 30 in the afternoon. Primary schools in Singapore attach great importance to students' comprehensive quality and carry out various activities. Students have good habits. Singapore's current education model combines some advantages of Commonwealth education and China education.