In order to reduce the extracurricular burden of primary and secondary school students, the Ministry of Education and other four ministries and commissions jointly launched a special campaign at the end of last month to control the behavior of off-campus training institutions, such as "teaching beyond class hours, strengthening examinations, and organizing grade examination competitions for primary and secondary school students". A recent survey by the Beijing Morning Post reporter found that many parents are consulting various training courses while expressing their support. Some training courses have undergone a makeover and are still enrolling students. Industry experts reminded that in order to pay equal attention to off-campus training and on-campus education and teaching behavior, and really let the training class lose its living soil, it is necessary to "cut the knife" from the baton of the college entrance examination.
Sending children to cram school is actually quite helpless.
With the arrival of the school season, many off-campus training institutions have ushered in a round of registration peak. "Small classes are limited to 12 people. There is a discount for registering now. I suggest you register first, and the quota can be reserved for one week. " In an office building on Xuanwumenwai Street, the staff of a training institution is persuading parents who come to consult to sign up as soon as possible. The reporter saw that there are five or six training institutions in the office building, and students who come to cram after school are in an endless stream. Some younger children, after studying the main course, go to the training class to study calligraphy, painting, vocal music and other courses.
Many parents expressed their support for relevant departments to jointly rectify off-campus training courses, claiming that it is helpless to send their children for tutoring. "The child is in the third grade, and most people in the class are making up lessons outside. Now she is in a hurry. " Ms. Li, a parent, said that although she has been calling for reducing the burden on her children, the questions in the exam are not all within the scope of textbooks, and her heart is not practical.
"The training course has been cancelled. Can I get a refund? " Ms. Tian, a parent, said that the children's school has been counting students' participation in off-campus training courses, and some off-campus classes have been suspended. "Teachers in schools are reluctant to touch this' red line', and the level of teachers in training institutions is difficult to guarantee. If this rectification can really solve the problem, it will also reduce the burden on many families. "
Multi-agency exam-oriented training behavior
The reporter visited and found that although many training courses smelled the wind of rectification, there were still behaviors such as teaching in advance and strengthening exams, and some even just changed their names. The reporter learned from a well-known training institution that its summer preparatory class started the school's new semester course ahead of schedule. The person in charge of this institution said that the fees for one-on-one courses in junior and senior high schools ranged from 1.000 yuan to 1.300 yuan. If you choose experts from key schools to teach, a class will reach more than 3000 yuan. "We guarantee that we are all teachers in the graduating class of key schools." The person in charge said that the school teaching must be ahead of schedule, and homework will be left after each training. "It's just that it's strictly checked now and I can't tell you who the teachers in key schools are."
Another training institution offers top classes, experimental classes and competition classes in spring. For example, for the first grade of junior high school, it is advocated to "learn first, and finish the knowledge of junior high school in the first grade". "We have been rectifying institutions with incomplete qualifications for running schools for more than ten years, and there will be no problem." For the statement of "stopping rectification", the staff of the agency did not agree. There are also counseling institutions that are wary after the special action and recruit students under the banner of "checking for missing vacancies".
Multiple cups pause or stop.
The Ministry of Education and other joint rectification, a number of cups have been suspended. According to the notice issued by the organizing committee of Huajin Cup Junior Mathematics Invitational Tournament, the enlarged meeting of the organizing committee of Huajin Cup held on February 28th decided that the organizing committee of Huajin Cup should apply to the Ministry of Education for re-examination. Before re-examination, the 23rd final of China Cup, originally scheduled for March this year 10, was postponed. The organizing committee of "Walking the Beauty Cup" said that the contest was postponed and the procedure for submitting modeling papers remained unchanged. "Hope Cup" organizing committee indicated that it would proceed as usual.
According to the staff of "Learning and Thinking in Beijing", the previous annual comprehensive ability evaluation of learning and thinking (that is, "Learning and Thinking Cup") is no longer held. "This year's 20 18 spring student comprehensive ability diagnosis has nothing to do with the' Xuesi Cup'. The diagnosis is only for students who study and think internally. There is no award, no certificate and no award ceremony. The purpose is to let the students learn the learning content of the past year in stages, test the learning effect in time, and check for missing vacancies. " The staff said that after the special action, they will adjust their teaching to keep up with the progress of the school.
Governance should treat both the symptoms and the root causes.
Wen Jia (a pseudonym), a teacher in a key school in a city, said that attending extra-curricular remedial classes is easy to make students dependent. "The various problem-solving routines in remedial classes often make students lose their independent study habits and thinking ability."
For the long-term existence of off-campus training institutions, Zong Chunshan, director of the Municipal Youth Legal and Psychological Counseling Center, believes that this is because exam-oriented education only determines a person's development such as further studies and employment, and it is also a fundamental baton, which is also inseparable from the orientation of classroom teaching.
"Today's teaching failed to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. If classroom teaching does not take into account every student, then the students who rank lower can only choose to make up classes. " Zong Chunshan suggested that schools can effectively improve classroom quality and diversify classroom teaching. In addition, while strengthening the governance of training institutions, multi-departments should also investigate the source of school teaching management in order to achieve real results.