Create a good environment
Stimulate teenagers' innovative ability
Yesterday, the reporter interviewed Miller, a representative of the Provincial People's Congress, a senior engineer of Xi 'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics, and the founding partner and co-CEO of Anzhong Kechuangxing Technology Incubator Co., Ltd. on how to stimulate children's innovative ability in the education process.
In the interview, he told a short story: "Before, the Institute of Optics and Mechanics introduced a talent whose children were among the best in Britain. They not only have a very high level of violin, but also write small programs. However, such a talented student in Britain returned to China after studying in a key school in Xi 'an for half a year, and was forced to drop out because he could not adapt to the teaching methods and score-oriented evaluation mechanism there. "
"What does this example show? It shows that our education has fallen into the strange circle of exam-oriented education. Massive homework, double pressure from parents and schools, and a single score-oriented teaching and evaluation mechanism are the problems that cause the current educational chaos. We want to develop Xi 'an, but the education level can't be improved. How can we introduce talents? Therefore, education reform is imminent. "Miller said that it is necessary to grasp the correct direction of educational public opinion, influence students' parents and the public from the ideological level, and create a good social environment for education and teaching. Vigorously publicize and create a teaching environment and atmosphere of "not evaluating students, teachers and schools by scores".
Miller suggested that primary schools should not simply evaluate teachers based on students' test scores, and education departments should not evaluate schools based on the single indicator of enrollment rate. It is suggested that teachers' enthusiasm, friendliness, scientific education methods, teaching professional level, students' evaluation and description of teachers and parents' satisfaction with teachers should be added to the teacher reward and punishment system.
"We can make full use of hard science and technology resources in our province to stimulate students' innovation. "Miller said that Shaanxi has sufficient hard technology resources, which can make robots, 3D printers, graphic calculators and other hard technologies enter the campus, stimulate children's creative thinking in learning, let children learn in games and play, and learn in hands-on practice, thus stimulating children's creativity.
teach students in accordance with their aptitude
Reform the educational evaluation system
For the government report, "focus on solving the outstanding problems of heavy extracurricular burden,' school choice fever' and' large class size' of primary and secondary school students." Chen Hong, deputy to the Provincial People's Congress, principal of the First Experimental Community in weiyang district and principal of Wenjing Primary School, believes that to run a satisfactory education for the people, it is necessary to find out what the problems are in current education.
"I don't think it lies in education itself, but in the system and mechanism of education and in the evaluation of teachers. Teachers play the most important role in the whole education process, but at present, the continuous training and correct evaluation methods for teachers are insufficient. Without a good teaching staff, there is no way to conduct a good education. "
The reason for this is that Chen Hong believes that the current education is utilitarian. "Why do primary and secondary school students have a heavy extracurricular burden and there is a' school choice fever'? This reflects the current shortage of quality education resources. " She told reporters that the current talent selection method is single, and the enrollment rate is the only criterion for parents to judge whether a school is good or not. In order for children to be admitted to good universities in the future, they can only squeeze their heads into prestigious schools, which has caused the phenomenon of "school choice fever".
"Parents use the enrollment rate to evaluate the quality of the school, so the enrollment rate has become the lifeline of the school. But in this way, education will be utilitarian. " Chen Hong said why there is a lack of innovative talents in our country, because most people have taken exams. The actual combat practice under exam-oriented education is to get children into a "naval battle", but even if the test skills are improved, it does not mean that children's comprehensive literacy is better than others.
"The problem of education is a problem of talent outlook, and the whole country and society should have a correct guidance. Schools and teachers must teach students in accordance with their aptitude, but our current education is single and extensive, like assembly line processing. All education and training objectives and teaching materials are standardized, and the evaluation of children is also evaluated through a test paper, which is largely a waste of educational resources. " Chen Hong said.
She suggested that the government should formulate detailed evaluation indicators for compulsory education and correctly guide social concepts. "For example, the senior high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination should not blindly look at the results of cultural courses, and other standards should be added. Once this evaluation system is introduced, all schools will follow it, and the society will go along with it. "