Are you talking about reducing students' homework burden? Reducing students' homework burden is the requirement of quality education in the new period, which is really helpful to growing students.

"Reducing the burden" bid farewell to yesterday

"Little Jiro, go to school with your schoolbag on your back." This is a traditional folk song in China, humming the relaxed and happy mood of children carrying schoolbags. Once upon a time, from school to society, various remedial classes, advanced classes and cram schools surrounded and covered many students. From the school to Xinhua Bookstore, all kinds of tutoring materials, exercises, AB volumes and test questions flocked to the school and got into students' schoolbags. The schoolbags are getting heavier and heavier, and the students' physical and mental pressure is getting heavier and heavier, which is unbearable for the family economy. The heavy burden has become an obstacle to the implementation of quality education in schools. Quality education requires students to develop in an all-round way and improve their comprehensive quality. However, all kinds of tutoring, running classes and tutoring deprive students of all their leisure time, and even Sundays and holidays are firmly tied to classrooms and desks. There are no festivals, no holidays, only endless classes and homework ... Teachers teach for exams, students study for exams, but learning becomes a bitter sea, and children lose their innocence; There is nothing but books, how can we improve our comprehensive quality? In this way, "training high-quality talents to meet the challenges of the 2 1 century" has not become a resounding empty talk of the Chinese people?

Excessive burden on students has become a serious obstacle to comprehensively promoting quality education, and it has also caused some bad social effects. In order to cut off the "heavy burden", restore the happiness of children's childhood, and let children express their interests and grow up happily and sturdily, on June 3, 2000, 1, the Ministry of Education issued the document Ji Jiao (2000) 1 "Emergency Notice on Reducing the Overweight Burden of Primary School Students"; 65438 10/7, the Ministry of Education held a video conference to reduce the schoolwork burden of primary and secondary school students, demanding that the schoolwork burden of students be effectively reduced and quality education be promoted in an all-round way. As a result, the current tide of "reducing the burden" has been set off.

How heavy is the burden on students?

"Never let children fall behind the starting line" and "Eighteen Martial Arts" should be taught to children for their future, which is the ardent expectation of many parents in China. So parents began their "Hope Project" involuntarily. Therefore, from the day they entered the school gate, children began to bear the heavy pressure and burden of many books, courses, homework, exams, tutors and competitions.

Looking at the children's ever-changing schoolbags, you can get a glimpse of the whole leopard. According to a recent report in Wenzhou Times, "How heavy is a child's schoolbag", a fifth-grade student has only 20 textbooks, supporting textbooks and supplementary reading materials, exercise books and exercise books, and the schoolbag weighs about 5 kilograms. According to another survey, most primary and secondary school students are doing more than ten hours of intensive study every day. Primary school courses are as many as 18, with more than 30 classes per week, not including crowded weekends and holidays. In addition to regular courses, some schools also offer various remedial classes such as music, physical education, beauty, dance, painting and calligraphy, which lengthens students' school time and increases their burden. Some schools also distribute exercise books, unit tests, basic skills training and other teaching AIDS to review materials with textbooks. According to endless statistics, there are several reading materials, exercise books and other subjects accompanying the textbooks, and these exercise books and unit tests are all under the banner of "quality education", which makes students buy and do one by one in the name of training basic skills, which increases the burden on students. Some parents always try their best to reason with their children in order to get high marks and get the first place, or add their fists and feet to try to "get the gold out of the stick". In short, they are struggling. Children are in such a tense atmosphere from the moment they wake up in the morning, and their psychological burden is getting heavier and heavier ... There are countless examples.

How harmful is the burden?

The focus of quality education is to cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability. But some of our educators and parents only care about grades. As a result, all kinds of counseling materials and test papers bought by the school and collected by parents themselves are placed in front of students. Students are not allowed to ask why, as long as they do, practice and touch all kinds of questions, as long as they can imitate. Some teachers try to force knowledge into their students in order to compete for class exam scores. Students' thinking space is blocked and becomes a single channel. Just do, don't think, talk about innovative consciousness, let alone practical ability outside practice. These wrong behaviors and practices violate the laws of education and teaching, distort the nature and tasks of basic education, deprive children of childlike innocence and fun, seriously hinder their all-round, lively and active development, and restrict the overall improvement of the quality of basic education.

The heavy burden has also brought great influence to teaching. Quality-oriented education requires teachers to devote themselves to studying teaching materials and improve classroom teaching efficiency. However, due to make-up classes and remedial classes, they have no time to prepare lessons, let alone study textbooks. Quality education requires teachers to be student-oriented and guide students to learn how to learn in class. However, a large number of guidance materials encourage teachers to be lazy, do not study teaching methods, do not consider students, and only let students do it, which more seriously hinders the implementation of quality education in classroom teaching.

Students' physical and mental health has been devastated. Many students have seven or eight classes or even ninety classes every day, plus morning and evening self-study, weekends, holidays, winter and summer vacations or make up lessons; Parents also arranged various extracurricular tutoring and homework for their children. Children are in the period of growth and development. Too long study time leads to physical fatigue and serious lack of sleep, which leads to physical decline, neurasthenia, spinal curvature, myopia and other diseases. Some students lack self-confidence and initiative in a nervous and depressed psychological state. Under various pressures, some children and adolescents have rebellious psychology towards schools, teachers and parents, and their personalities are distorted, which leads to weariness of learning, dropping out of school and even some tragedies. A newspaper in this city contains many cases of students leaving home because of unbearable study and family pressure; A middle school student in Jinhua couldn't stand his mother's pressure and killed her with a hammer. These tragedies are too numerous to mention.

It can be seen that the harm caused by the heavy schoolwork burden of primary and secondary school students not only damages the physical and mental health of primary and secondary school students, but also seriously hinders the implementation of quality education and the overall improvement of the quality of basic education. Therefore, measures must be taken to eradicate the problem of overburdened students.

"Reduce the burden": Say goodbye to yesterday

Reducing the burden is probably the hottest topic in the society recently, and the majority of teachers engaged in teaching in the front line have a lot to say about it. It's hard not to reduce students' burdens and keep their grades from falling! In fact, the difficulty lies in how to accurately understand the "burden reduction". "Burden reduction" is not to reduce the quality of learning and let children herd sheep. "Reducing the burden" refers to the "excessive burden" on students, that is, the "negative" of "copying a new word incorrectly 100 times" and "the problem-solving process does not meet the standard answer" and the "negative" of spirit. According to Wenzhou Times, a primary school student refused to do his homework on the grounds of "lightening the burden". In fact, "reducing the burden" does not mean denying efforts, nor does it mean that there is no burden at all. There should still be some academic burdens; Because learning itself is a stressful thing, children can't live without the burden of learning, and what educators do is to reduce the excessive burden and improve the quality of teaching. If children's schoolwork is reduced, they are relaxed and let go, and they will not be admitted to universities in the future, then the consequences will be very heavy, and there will be a lot of economic and social burdens. Learning is right, the question is what to learn and how to learn; The result of reducing the burden should be the improvement of learning efficiency rather than the decline of learning quality. It is very superficial to understand "reducing the burden" or even quality education only as reducing homework, schoolwork and study at the same time. Even the misinterpretation of the national "burden reduction" policy can only be phased, and the symptoms will not be cured. Because, although there are fewer textbooks and less homework, the syllabus, teaching materials and teaching methods have not changed, and the evaluation criteria for students have not changed. Therefore, the work after reducing the burden should start with school education and social factors, and the school is the key, especially in classroom teaching, we should study and practice methods to reduce the burden on students.

Practical exploration, classroom breakthrough

Reform teaching and enjoy education. We must break the traditional teacher-centered question-and-answer teaching mode and carry out the reform practice of classroom teaching. The course of "Negotiation" is introduced into classroom teaching, with the theme of "self-seeking knowledge" for students. Through teaching activities such as "stimulating interest, guiding inquiry", "exploring differences" and "discovering new knowledge", students can cultivate their innovative spirit and problem-solving ability in the process of thinking, speaking and hands-on.

Under the heavy burden, students are passive, depressed and unhappy in their studies, so their studies are not active. Therefore, we should start from stimulating students' interest and start from the age characteristics of children, and change the traditional learning motto of "there is a way to learn from the mountains, but there is no end to learning from the sea" to make the classroom colorful, interesting and vivid, and let students enjoy learning and learn happily.

Simplify homework and improve quality. In order to effectively reduce the burden of students' schoolwork, we insist on leaving no homework in grades one and two, and the amount of homework in grades three and four should not exceed 45 minutes, and that in grades five and six should exceed 1 hour; Any repetitive work and ineffective "sea tactics" are prohibited. Teachers in all subjects are required to reasonably design concise, necessary and interesting homework according to the teaching materials and students' learning characteristics. The required homework reflects the teaching requirements and basic knowledge points of each class, and every student must complete it. Interesting homework is designed for spare students to expand their knowledge and cultivate their academic ability. This part of the homework is chosen by students voluntarily, but students must correct it when they become teachers. When correcting homework, you should correct it one by one according to your seat. The key is to guide the poor students in time, correct them immediately and give feedback quickly, so that the effect is excellent. The most important thing is to leave enough time for homework in class. This is of high quality and good effect, which brings a sense of relaxation to teachers and students.

Strengthen the management of student books. The management of teaching materials is chaotic, with heavy academic burden and double economic burden. The masses reacted strongly to this problem. Education authorities at all levels should take solving this "stubborn disease" as an important measure to "untie" schools and students and promote quality education. A few years ago, due to the influence of the concept of exam-oriented education in our city, many schools blindly subscribed to exercise books, test questions and other supplementary materials, and began to conduct unified examination and approval of teaching materials for students in municipal schools in the autumn of 2000. This measure is highly praised by teachers, parents and students. I hope the education department can implement this measure in the whole city.

Adjust the time to increase the total population. A large-scale survey on the development of children in contemporary China shows that nearly half of primary and middle school students in China work overtime and lack sleep. Therefore, the school should adjust the class hours: the content of each class is generally not more than 30 minutes, and 10 minutes is used as the students' homework time; Balance weekly courses and schedules; Cancel the morning self-study and postpone the school time (8: 00). Some parents think that postponing class time is not conducive to cultivating children's hard-working spirit and perseverance. In fact, being late for school does not conflict with the spirit of suffering. If the child gets up early after getting enough sleep, he can arrange exercise. Delaying the class time will not only give children enough time to sleep and eat breakfast, but also give them more time to feel the affection and care of their families. It also allows parents to have enough time to communicate with their children in the morning, which can promote their emotional intelligence. This is an important aspect of quality education.

Reform examinations and encourage innovation. In order to reduce the test burden, we should reform the existing test mode of "one pen, one test paper". Drawing lessons from the examination reform mode of some schools in Beijing and Shanghai, we adopt a variety of examination methods: unit practice retake system, and students with unsatisfactory results in this exercise can ask for retake; The comprehensive examination is divided into items, which are the contents of the same examination and can be carried out in different periods; The final exam is free. If you study well at ordinary times, you will have the opportunity to evaluate directly without taking exams. Graded examination system, students choose different difficult topics themselves; Subject examination and competition system, such as the results of various speeches and recitation competitions, can be included in Chinese scores.

Organization and guidance of students' class office activities. "Reducing the burden" does not mean that all classes in the school are closed, and it is impossible to let the children go home. Some students don't know what to do after "relaxing". Some people are bored and go into the video game room to kill time. Schools should do some supporting work after "reducing the burden", such as setting up student interest associations. Children's participation in clubs is no longer like the previous interest groups, just to ask for some specific knowledge and skills. But on the basis of the original interest groups (calligraphy, painting, music, etc. ), they want to add performances, housekeeping, small reporters, small banks, stamp collecting, photography and so on. Strive to give every child the opportunity to participate and show themselves. As long as it is something that children love to do, they won't feel tired anyway. If they don't like doing something, they are forced to do it. This is a burden. The key to reducing the burden is to find ways to stimulate and protect students' interest in many ways.

The measures are solid and the guarantee is strong.

Unify thoughts and involve all staff. "Reducing the burden and increasing the efficiency" is not only the liberation of students' schoolwork burden, but also the concrete innovation of the majority of primary school teachers to deepen the teaching reform. All teaching staff should study, reach a consensus, implement educational reform, reduce burdens and increase efficiency, and meet the challenges of educational development in the new century.

Strengthen monitoring to ensure effectiveness. While taking the above measures, schools should also strengthen the monitoring of teaching. At the same time, it is guaranteed that all homework books that have not been published by Wenzhou Municipal Education Commission will not enter the classroom, which will certainly strengthen the social channels for students' academic burden.

Family and school are in harmony. In addition to the education and teaching reform of the school, "reducing the burden" also needs the correct guidance of parents and the cooperation of the school. After reducing the burden, parents should also give their children a space to develop independently according to their own interests in the space they can control, so that children can cultivate their attention and interest through play activities and broaden their horizons; To give children a space, parents should first seek their children's opinions and let them seek things that are likely to succeed according to their hobbies and feel successful; Parents must respect their children, and don't impose personal will and wishes on their children, which will lead to their rebellious mentality; Parents should also take the initiative to create a partner space for their children, so that children can have more contact with their neighbors, which is very important for children to learn to be human and learn to communicate; Parents should also let their children participate in family life and get in touch with the control of family daily living expenses, which is a problem of both arithmetic and consumption view.

Binding language

To be exact, quality education is not an educational model, but an educational thought and an educational concept. The concept of quality education is "all for students, all for students, all for students". The "burden reduction" today is actually the directional adjustment of education in China, but "burden reduction" is not an end in itself. The purpose of "reducing the burden" is to improve the quality of education and teaching in an all-round way and cultivate a high-quality new generation facing 2 1 century. This embodies the concept of quality education. Implementing quality education is a great cause related to the interests of the whole country and nation. We should admit that we started a little late, so there must be no more behaviors that hinder quality education. However, we must be cautious when exploring ways and means to reduce the burden. After all, "it takes ten years to plant trees, but it takes a hundred years to cultivate people". We can only "cross the river by feeling the stones" when trying to "reduce the burden" on this major educational reform.