Various assessments, various WeChat groups, and countless platform concerns and praises ... Teachers in Zheng Zheng Middle School have been plagued by various "tasks". At most, there are more than 20 official WeChat accounts that only require each teacher to download and install the App and pay attention to it. This not only makes teachers very tired, but also sometimes interferes with normal teaching arrangements.
According to the situation reflected by the school, the supervision Committee of the Bishan District Commission for Discipline Inspection conducted a special investigation on the burden of primary and secondary school teachers. After the results of the survey came out, Bishan built a three-level working mechanism of "Party Committee and government performing their duties, education departments guarding the gate, and schools taking the initiative", and cancelled 86 social affairs unrelated to teaching through the positive and negative "two lists", optimized the collaborative education indicators related to the rule of law, morality, safety and other closely related education and teaching in the "positive list", and included social affairs related to assessment in the "supervision list". At the same time, improve the mechanism of "social affairs entering the campus for examination and approval" under the responsibility of the District Education Committee, and set up a monitoring point for teachers' burden reduction in 18 school to prevent the phenomenon of "overweight at different levels" and transferring teaching tasks to parents from rebounding.
"Reducing the burden on teachers is to reduce the burden, not to reduce their responsibilities. "The secretary of the Education Working Committee of Bishan District Committee said that the simplified list of collaborative education has clarified" what to learn ",and teachers can get rid of complicated affairs and devote themselves to curriculum design in combination with the goal of educating people, so as to better solve the problem of" how to learn ".
"In the previous' 415' National Safety Education Day, it was required to punch in the online safety education video. This year, we are holding a theme class meeting and having a safety education class. The way students participate has also changed from simple platform sign-in to classroom interaction. " Guo Bing, principal of Bian He Primary School in Bishan District, said that with the work of reducing teachers' burden being included in the school's annual special supervision and performance appraisal, teachers' professional satisfaction has improved and the relationship between colleagues has also improved.
In addition to strictly controlling social affairs into the campus, Bishan has further strengthened activity planning and departmental co-ordination, and established a data information sharing platform on the basis of grasping the scale of "trace management" to achieve "more data running, less teachers filling out forms". At the same time, establish a meeting ledger, strictly control the number of meetings, and reduce the length of meetings. From 2022 10 to April 2023, the documents issued to teachers decreased by 63.6% year-on-year, and various conferences and trainings unrelated to education and teaching decreased by 54.5%. "While letting teachers concentrate on teaching and educating people, we have also changed the evaluation method of' score-only theory' and established a' value-added evaluation' system that pays attention to the development and changes of schools, teachers and students, and the update of evaluation standards drives teachers to reflect on teaching results and provides space for teachers to develop personalized teaching methods."
"In the past, every item was a quantitative assessment, and every item had to be filled in. Now everyone's enthusiasm for teaching has really improved a lot. Without those quantitative indicators, the idea of developing teaching methods has become more active. "
"Teachers' burden reduction has achieved initial results, but they must maintain perseverance and perseverance for a long time. "According to reports, the Education Committee of Bishan District conducted a special investigation on teachers' burden reduction in early April. On the basis of squeezing out the "external moisture" of social affairs, it also refines the rectification measures and time limit of formalism and red tape within the school.