First of all, quality education re-examines the functions of schools.
School is a widespread social organization. Fundamentally speaking, school education is a social activity to cultivate people. It promotes individual's physical and mental development and socialization by transmitting social production and life experience to individuals. On the premise of traditional education, schools have two main functions: one is to promote personal development; The second is the function of social choice. At present, the society overemphasizes the selection function of schools, pursues scores and enrollment rate, but ignores the cultivation of ideals, individuality and innovative spirit. Students' personality is distorted in mechanical memory, passive acceptance and closed management, which greatly hinders people's physical and mental health. We emphasize quality education, so we should re-examine the functions of schools and change the imbalance of school functions. In other words, it is necessary to coordinate the functions of schools and promote the balance between the functions of personal development and social choice. Emphasize the function of personal development, that is, according to the basic quality requirements of society for everyone, the basic laws of personal physical and mental development and different personality characteristics, and gradually hand over the selection function to the society through the influence of education.
Second, the transformation of teachers' functions in quality education.
Traditional education emphasizes that teachers should establish a career, have good conduct and noble moral character, teach students to do things and help them solve difficult problems, which is called "preaching, teaching and solving doubts". However, in today's era of emphasizing personality quality education, it is unrealistic and impossible to still use those functions of the past to restrain teachers in modern society. I think the function of teachers in quality education should be changed from "preaching, teaching and solving doubts" to "organizing, guiding and answering questions".
1, morality. In a society with a single traditional value orientation, it is possible to pass on the mainstream culture and etiquette of Confucianism from generation to generation. However, in the modern information society, traditional morality degenerates and values are diversified. It is useless to demand the educated with a unified value standard in the era of individuality. Because quality education advocates students' reaction ability, innovation ability, adaptability and self-development ability, it is impossible to train talents with these abilities by using a single standard of right and wrong to restrain students. For example, the theory of human origin in American schools can introduce creationism at the same time as evolution theory, which shows that Americans don't understand science, but it is helpful for students to judge right and wrong by themselves, and it is absolutely helpful for students' imagination and innovation ability, which meets the requirements of quality education. When we were young, we all learned the text "The Tortoise and the Rabbit Race". Teachers today, like teachers in the past, are still only teaching students the idea that pride makes people lag behind and modesty makes people progress. If the rabbit doesn't sleep that long and suddenly wakes up, who can run fast? Why? Not many people seem to talk about it. Therefore, in the era of quality education, to weaken the function of simple preaching, teachers are required to focus on organizing students to learn knowledge, introduce knowledge and organize students to exchange experiences.
2. Teaching is to teach students survival skills through learning. With the continuous development of modern science and technology, new industries are constantly emerging, traditional industries are gradually eliminated, and new occupations are constantly emerging. It is obviously absurd to pursue future survival with present technology and skills, because talents in the quality education era are not like those in the industrial era. Therefore, teachers in quality education can't and don't need to teach, but need to guide students to learn and tell them how to learn on the premise of imparting knowledge.
3. The function of "answering questions" remains unchanged, but answering questions in quality education is far more difficult than that in traditional education and exam-oriented education, because the sources of questions are too wide, including books, extracurricular, life and imagination. For example, when there are "satellites, aircraft carriers, spaceships and launch vehicles" in Chinese literacy 8 in grade two of primary school, students are very curious and have endless questions. When answering students' strange questions, teachers are required to have high quality. A teacher who knows only one book and one course is not enough.
Third, the current obstacles to quality education
For a long time, due to the influence of traditional educational ideas, people generally regard schools as places for imparting knowledge, which are embodied in the following aspects: attaching importance to imparting knowledge and ignoring its application; Attach importance to the capacity of knowledge and ignore the energy of creation; Pay attention to the quantity of knowledge and ignore the innovation of knowledge. As a result, students are only used to accepting and not used to thinking and argumentation, which affects their thinking activities and suppresses their creative spirit. Therefore, we believe that the obstacles to quality education are the following factors:
1. Education concept: People have an impetuous and eager for quick success in education, thinking that the purpose of education is to teach students survival skills and rely too much on skill learning. This idea has seriously affected the popularization of quality education.
2. Education mode: First, the education mode is single, and the teaching mode centered on "teachers, textbooks and classrooms" is prevalent, and students only play a cooperative role in teaching.