Homework, both to reduce the burden and improve the quality For some time, the phenomenon of "homework" becoming "parents...
Homework, both to reduce the burden and improve the quality
For some time, the phenomenon of "homework" becoming "parents' work" has caused a lot of discussion. In some schools, some teachers will ask parents to correct student homework in WeChat groups; there are also homework assignments that students cannot complete alone and require the cooperation of parents to complete it together, which has become a disguised "parent homework". How to return homework to the education standard is an important issue of education governance.
In response to the problems of excessive quantity, low quality, and functional alienation in individual places and schools, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of School Work in Compulsory Education" and put forward the "ten requirements" and clearly stated Students are not allowed to self-correct and self-correct, and it is strictly forbidden to assign or disguise assignments to parents. It is strictly forbidden to ask parents to correct the homework so that the homework can be returned to the school education link. The release of the "Notice" has a strong realistic pertinence. It is a correction to the distorted homework, which helps to reduce the burden on students, "relax" the parents, and allow the homework to better exert its educational function.
The original intention of homework is to deepen students' understanding and mastery of classroom knowledge, and is an important part of learning; but it is a kind of relationship dislocation to transfer educational responsibility to parents in the form of homework. The manifestation of this dislocation is that homework is too much and too difficult. If there is too much homework, the burden on children in the compulsory education stage will be heavier. In the meantime, parents are required to approve homework, record homework, and video check-in. This is not conducive to the healthy growth of children, but will also bring burden to family life. ; If the homework is too complicated, some new creative homework still needs to be completed by parents and children. Many parents directly ask for “consignment” in order to help their children be rated as “excellent”, which makes it difficult for some of the works completed by children to stand out. . Only by scientifically designing homework can a good education effect be achieved and a benign interaction between family and school can be realized.
In this regard, the "Notice" gave a more comprehensive answer. In response to the problem of excessive amount of homework, it is emphasized that the total amount of written homework should be strictly controlled, and specific time requirements have been made for different sections and grades; in order to improve the quality of homework, it is required to accurately design homework according to different situations of students, according to the actual academic situation, Select homework content; at the same time, we should also innovate the types of homework, rationally arrange different types of homework such as written homework, scientific inquiry, physical exercise, art appreciation, social and labor practice. These specific measures reflect respect for the laws of education, reduce the randomness of homework management, and reflect the professional and scientific nature of homework design.
At the same time, taking homework's return to the function of educating people as an opportunity, it is also possible to think about the relationship between education burden reduction and quality improvement from a larger level, and the division of labor and cooperation between family and school in education. From the perspective of the design of homework, it is not to avoid homework, but to avoid the alienation of its function, and improve the quality of homework while reasonably reducing the burden on students, so as to effectively exert the education function of homework. From the perspective of home-school collaboration, the prohibition of "parent homework" is to clarify the responsibilities of parents and the school, and it does not mean that parents give up the responsibility of guarding their children. Family education plays an important role in the growth of children. It is the educational responsibility of parents to urge children to cultivate good learning habits and sense of responsibility, to cultivate the ability of independent learning and self-management, and to realize the collaborative education of people at home and school. On the premise of clarifying the responsibilities of the home and school, achieving the deep integration of home education and school education, allowing parents to participate in the children's learning and growth reasonably, can create a good educational environment for the children.
In short, only by controlling the total amount of homework, improving the quality, and rationally dividing the work between home and school, can homework return to the education standard, and students can get better quality compulsory education. (Zhang Boying)
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