It is reported that this activity is a collective reading and learning activity jointly sponsored by the "Voice of Youth" Learners Service Alliance of Chang 'an Street Reading Club and Renmin University of China Press, and undertaken by the National Reading Promotion Committee, China Youth Network and the "Voice of Youth" Comprehensive Service Office.
The most fundamental gap between urban and rural education lies in teachers.
Zhu Yongxin, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party, Deputy Secretary-General of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Standing Committee member and Vice President of China Education Policy Research Institute, believes that the phenomenon of "ice flower boy" has a lot to do with the school's merger. "In fact, we started writing suggestions to the country five years ago and basically stopped."
Zhu Yongxin spoke at the reading meeting. Special correspondent Xing Yan photo
Zhu Yongxin said that this involves the concept of education. From the perspective of giving priority to complete efficiency, of course, the more concentrated, the better. But from the children's point of view, small-scale schools in remote rural areas should keep teaching points. Of course, many places can solve this problem by running boarding schools now.
What thoughts does the phenomenon of "ice flower boy" leave for people? Zhu Yongxin said that the most fundamental difference in education between cities and rural areas, between big cities and ordinary cities, and between the capital and other cities lies in teachers. Good teachers from the village go to the town, good teachers from the town go to the county, good teachers from the county go to the city, good teachers from the city go to the provincial capital, and good teachers from the provincial capital go to places like Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai. This is a relatively common phenomenon.
How to deal with and contain this phenomenon? Zhu Yongxin said that the key is how to encourage excellent teachers to go to the countryside and let the best educational resources go to the countryside. This needs to solve the problem of teachers' treatment. The first thing that needs to be solved is the teachers in the most rural and remote areas, which requires the rural teachers' income multiplication plan.
Zhu Yongxin mentioned that China also has a very important force of non-governmental volunteers. How can we make better use of it? "For example, retired teachers, intellectuals and scientists go to the countryside to teach. If this policy is formulated, a retired teacher will go to the countryside to teach, and we will provide salary and accommodation. There are many retired teachers over the age of 55. If this force is mobilized and promoted as a national action, the problems of some rural teachers can be solved. "
Children in rural areas read as many books and are as good as children in cities.
Zhu Yongxin believes that besides teachers, we should also build a scholarly campus. A big gap between rural education and urban education is reading. If the problem of reading is solved, rural children will not lose to urban children. Suhomlinski once said that all students are equal in front of books. When rural children read as many books as urban children, and when they read as good books, their development will not be so much behind that of urban children.
Zhu Yongxin, for example, Sui County is a new education experimental area, and all counties have participated in the new education experiment. It has been six years now. 20 17 Suizhou physical and chemical survey, 8 out of the top ten in Zhongsui experimental area; Among the top 20, the experimental area got 16. There are 23 junior high schools in Suixian, all of which rank among the top 27 in Suizhou. This shows that reading plays a very important role in improving the quality of education in rural schools and enhancing the competitiveness of students.
Zhu Yongxin said that the reading of students in Suixian New Education Experimental School is almost five times the average reading of other schools. Therefore, reading is very important to improve the quality of rural children. "I specially set up a new education foundation to send new education libraries to children in remote areas and rural areas, and select some books for children to read. I think this has solved the key problem. "
Zhu Yongxin said that every book is selected by experts. There are not many books, but we should give the best children's books to the best childhood so that children can grow up better. Therefore, to solve the problem of rural education, the first is teachers, and the second is reading. If these two points are done well, rural education will be better.
We should try our best to run the school to the students' doorstep.
Wang Dinghua, director of the Teacher Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education, said: "The story of the ice flower boy has aroused widespread concern through online and media reports. I have two feelings about this. "
First of all, there is still much room for improvement in our work. Try to keep the school close to the students' homes and let the students enter the school nearby. According to the opinions on regulating the layout adjustment of compulsory education schools forwarded by the State Council on 20 12, the merger should be strictly controlled, and the guarantee should be strengthened according to the opinions of the State Council on running small-scale schools in rural areas on 20 17.
Second, the society is very warm. This story is not particularly sad, because after the news spread, all walks of life lend a helping hand and give a lot of love. This school now has more development opportunities, and when CCTV reporters brought the camera to the school, the school was a brand-new teaching building, which was built with central financial funds in the comprehensive reform plan. The new home of this "ice flower boy" is less than 10 minutes' walk from school. However, due to the economic conditions at home, the house has not been renovated, so the difficulties are temporary and the future can be expected.
Wang Dinghua spoke at the reading meeting. Special correspondent Xing Yan photo
"Of course, we should also think about how to avoid similar incidents from happening again." Wang Dinghua said that it is necessary to run small-scale schools in rural areas well, increase funding, and increase funding in accordance with the principle of teacher-student ratio and combination of classes and teachers. Otherwise, if there are fewer children, the total investment will be very small.
3.3 million rural teachers support the blue sky of children's growth.
Wang Dinghua said that there are 3.3 million rural teachers in China, all of whom work below the town level. The majority of teachers learn to be teachers, behave themselves, take root in the countryside, contribute silently and make remarkable achievements. They are the backbone of rural development and the blue sky for children to grow up. Therefore, I want to praise them and pay tribute to them. In order to let them really go down and teach well, the living allowance for rural teachers should be increased.
Wang Dinghua introduced that the living allowance has been fully covered. Among them, for contiguous poverty-stricken counties, the central government now gives 390 yuan to every teacher every month, and provincial finance and local finance at the grassroots level also give subsidies. Compared with urban teachers of the same age and level, rural teachers have more 700 yuan every month.
Increase teachers' income and treatment, broaden teachers' development channels, and appropriately increase the proportion of middle and senior teachers. Wang Dinghua said that it was difficult for everyone to evaluate the advanced level before, and everyone said that it would be easy to read papers without taking a foreign language test. Later, it was found that this was not the case, mainly because the proportion of posts was too small. Since then, the Ministry of Education has negotiated with relevant departments to increase the proportion of middle and senior teachers.
Wang Dinghua believes that rural teachers will get better and better. At the same time, through the national training plan, provincial training plan, city training plan, county training plan, school-based teaching and research, shadow learning, improve the level of rural teachers. In this process, not only learning, but also observing cases.
Wang Dinghua said that the new educational experiment started at 17, and with theory, practice and exploration, it has developed from a unique show to a hundred flowers, and now it is forming a point-like situation.
Focus on teacher growth and teacher development.
Shi Zhongying, a professor in the Department of Education of Beijing Normal University, said that since the new period, the Party and the government have introduced many policies to improve the quality of teachers. The front-line education administrative departments and primary and secondary schools have also given full play to their enthusiasm, initiative and creativity, and formed many new mechanisms. There are national trainings all over the country, and now there is a five-level teacher training system in the country, which is remarkable. On top of this system, there are many special projects, such as the pilot project of famous teachers and principals of the Ministry of Education, the future educator projects of various provinces and cities, many famous teachers' studios and teachers' growing communities.
Shi Zhongying spoke at the reading meeting. Special correspondent Xing Yan photo
"From the government to the society, various platforms have been built for the professional growth of teachers. Shi Zhongying said that for a teacher, if he has a good career vision, enthusiasm for education and motivation for professional growth, he will not worry about finding ways and platforms for growth. Generally speaking, the state has done a lot of work for teachers' professional growth and quality improvement.
Shi Zhongying is more concerned about the influence of school internal environment on teachers' professional work. What kind of school environment is more conducive to teachers to fly their professional ideals, give full play to their professional abilities and achieve the purpose of teaching and educating people? He thinks it must be fair, equal and democratic. But in fact, many teachers work in schools, and their autonomy in education and teaching cannot be fully guaranteed. There is still a lot of time and energy not spent on creating a better learning and growth environment for students.
"Teachers' right to speak, autonomy and participation in school reform and development is not enough. So in recent years, I have been calling for strengthening teacher training and improving the quality of teacher supply. This is very important. However, the school system and culture need to be rebuilt. " Shi Zhongying said.
Shi Zhongying expressed the hope that the growth and development of teachers will be the core work to improve the quality of schools. Real education is provided by teachers.