Treating stubborn diseases with fierce drugs Shandong standardizes running schools and gains social recognition.

Shandong takes high school as a breakthrough, cures stubborn diseases with fierce medicine, liberates teachers and students, and liberates schools.

Standardize running schools and gain social recognition.

Qiu Chengling is a teacher in Zhangqiu No.4 Middle School in Shandong Province. He became a teacher on 1989. He never felt that he had so much time: he arrived at school at 7: 30 in the morning and got off work at 5: 00 in the afternoon. In the past, his school hours were basically from 6: 20 a.m. to 8: 00 p.m.

Such a change occurred after Shandong province comprehensively promoted quality education and paid close attention to standardizing running schools. In Shandong, a big college entrance examination province where the slogan of "grasping the college entrance examination and bleeding" once appeared, such changes in primary and secondary schools, especially in high schools, are a bit unimaginable.

Once upon a time, in Qilu, students on campus burned the midnight oil, made up lessons, ranked in exams, and the pressure of vicious competition in the college entrance examination passed down by high school students. Students are tired, teachers are tired and parents are tired. It is no exaggeration to say that Shandong was once the hardest hit area for exam-oriented education.

Treating "stubborn diseases" with fierce drugs: establishing rules, being serious and paying close attention to standardizing running schools.

There is an image saying that exam-oriented education makes everyone sick, and they are possessed and can't get out.

Shandong's "illness" is not light. Irregular school-running behaviors and behaviors that violate the laws of education are rampant, and it is students who are injured, not the whole education. Tao Qi, director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Education, said that it is no different from the sinner of history to let education go on knowing that education is taking a deformed road that deviates from the law.

It is better to get up and walk than to sit and chat. At the beginning of 2008, Huang Sheng, vice governor of Shandong Province, announced at the provincial work conference that 2008 was the year of quality education in the whole province. An educational reform called "New Deal" by some people and "Return" by others began.

The fundamental purpose of this reform is to promote quality education. Around this goal, Shandong's primary task is to standardize school-running behavior. Tao Qi emphasized at the small meeting of the General Assembly that quality education is impossible without standardized school-running behavior and good educational order.

To standardize, we must establish rules. To this end, Shandong Province has formulated various detailed rules: the provincial government and the Department of Education have successively issued 32 normative documents, covering the overall work arrangement, standardizing school-running behavior, building a working mechanism for educating people, curriculum construction and management, reform of examination and evaluation system, balanced development of education, and construction of teaching staff.

For example, the newly revised Basic Standard for the Management of Ordinary Primary and Secondary Schools covers 10 aspects such as the direction of running a school, school affairs, moral education, teaching, students and teachers, evaluation, finance, safety and health management, etc. Among them, standardizing courses, class hours, workload and schedule, as rigid requirements, has strict and specific regulations.

The rules have been formulated, and the key and difficult point is implementation. Everyone with discerning eyes knows that it is difficult to achieve truly effective standardization in the compulsory education stage, and it is difficult to achieve a breakthrough in quality education without standardization in high school education. Therefore, ordinary high schools have become the breakthrough of Shandong's reform. In the process of promoting standardization, Shandong has implemented a strict accountability system, and even "beheaded Ma Su with tears": since 2008, only the Shandong Provincial Department of Education has organized inspections 150 times, and inspected more than 4,000 schools without saying hello, and severely investigated and dealt with violations. 20 illegal schools were revoked the title of provincial standardized school or given a yellow card warning, more than 50 primary and secondary school principals and 2 students. For places where serious violations of school rules have occurred many times, the province also directly investigates the responsibility of the local education authorities.

Establish rules, find a good starting point, and severely punish those who don't follow the rules. This is a powerful medicine. On various occasions, Huang Sheng put forward the idea of "treating stubborn diseases with fierce drugs". The determination shown by the provincial government and the education department shocked the whole province.

A series of serious measures have made Shandong education slowly embark on the track of standardizing running schools: it is forbidden to work overtime, to rank in exams, and to increase or decrease class hours at will. Under the strict inspection and punishment system, fewer and fewer people dare to violate the rules.

However, new problems have emerged.

Prescribe a "prescription" to strengthen the foundation and cultivate the yuan: standardize the curriculum and classroom, and standardize the examination evaluation

Zhangqiu Experimental Middle School is a rural junior middle school. Students are willing to bear hardships and obey, students work hard, teachers work overtime to grab classes, give them sea tactics and repeat training, which are the long-term popular advantages of this school in the local area. Lu Jiangxue, the principal, said: "Studying hard and practicing hard on the exam results are enough to make us forget to pay."

However, this practice doesn't work now. There is a "40 Rules for Standardizing School-running Behavior" in Shandong Province, which clearly stipulates that it is necessary to reduce class hours, homework and self-study.

In the face of such regulations, President Lu said that students' school time is shortened, activity classes are not occupied, time for doing exercises is reduced, and time for subject training is gone. What should we do?

There are many schools that have this kind of confusion. Don't dare to make up lessons doesn't mean don't want to make up lessons. Some schools began to doubt whether they could transfer from the ground to the underground. If there is no effective "prescription" to consolidate the foundation and cultivate the yuan after "treating stubborn diseases with fierce drugs", it will bring more terrible rebound and consequences.

Standardizing curriculum, classroom and examination evaluation has become a "prescription" after the application of "fierce medicine" in the process of promoting quality education in Shandong.

Standardize the curriculum. In view of the outstanding problems such as the random setting of non-college entrance examination subjects, blind pursuit of teaching progress and neglect of comprehensive practical activities, Shandong issued "Guiding Opinions on Curriculum Setting and Teaching in Ordinary High Schools" and "Opinions on the Implementation of Subjects 15", stipulating that ordinary high schools must carry out education and teaching in strict accordance with the national curriculum plan to ensure that all compulsory courses are offered. At the same time, strictly regulate the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools, stipulate that no division is allowed in the first and second academic years, speed up the implementation of the "course selection system" and vigorously promote the "shift system".

Focus on creating high-quality and efficient classrooms. Over the past year or so, all parts of Shandong Province have actively explored the reform of teaching mode, effectively reducing the excessive burden of curriculum reform for students, and a large number of demonstration schools for curriculum reform have emerged, such as Provincial Experimental Middle School, Qingdao No.2 Middle School, Dulangkou Middle School in Chiping County, and Zhangbaqiu United Primary School in Laiwu City. After a short period of confusion, Zhangqiu Experimental Middle School found a new way out: in view of the current situation that most of the previous classes were teacher-centered "indoctrination", students stayed up for several hours in class, were busy with homework after class, and were high in consumption and low in efficiency, the school started with improving classroom teaching, created a classroom teaching mode of "autonomous learning, reaching the standard in the classroom", and vigorously promoted it throughout the school, and embarked on a successful road of reducing burdens and increasing efficiency.

Standardize examination evaluation. In the compulsory education stage, the school will fully implement the daily examination without performance evaluation, and establish a comprehensive and dynamic growth file for each student; Strictly limit all kinds of unnecessary unified examinations and implement a grading system for performance evaluation; In addition to the academic level examination, the municipal education administrative department only organizes a unified examination at the end of the first academic year and a mock college entrance examination in the second semester of the third academic year. We will fully implement the comprehensive quality evaluation system for junior high school students, replace the entrance examination with academic examinations, and enroll new students with comprehensive quality evaluation results instead of senior high school entrance examination results. Steadily promote the reform of college entrance examination system, and actively promote the comprehensive quality evaluation of candidates into the enrollment process of colleges and universities; Steadily expand the autonomy of college enrollment and promote the diversification of college enrollment; Strict management of college entrance examination information, taking candidates' scores as personal privacy protection, and prohibiting public publicity of college entrance examination scores and ranking awards.

The overall "governance" emphasizes practical results: liberating teachers, students and schools.

Zhang Zhiyong once made an analogy that was quoted countless times later: Everyone sat in the stadium and watched the game. When someone stood up, the people who were blocked behind also stood up, and more and more people stood up. At last, everyone stood up. Everyone was tired and bored. However, whoever sits down will suffer. It's hard for everyone to sit down at this time.

To eradicate this chronic disease, in addition to "strong medicine" and "proven prescription", Shandong also has a key "drug primer": the promotion of the whole province. According to the actual situation of the province as an independent college entrance examination admission unit, all schools act in unison, collectively reduce the burden, and standardize the operation of a game of chess in the province, and schools everywhere are no exception.

After promoting quality education for one year, teachers in Shandong generally think that the pressure of entering a higher school has been reduced, and they have a broad space to realize professional development and more leisure time to taste life, and their professional happiness has been obviously enhanced. Qiu Chengling said that no teacher or school dared to spend less time before, which made everyone very tired. But who really wants to be so tired? For more than a year, the whole province is not allowed to make up lessons, which really liberates schools and teachers.

In order to liberate students, Shandong province requires: the high schools in the province should be unified in winter and summer vacations, and classes are not allowed on weekends. The school library, gymnasium and laboratory should be fully open for students to organize activities; No senior middle school shall enroll students in advance in violation of regulations, and shall not enroll students outside the prescribed area or beyond the reasonable scale of the school.

Students quickly adapted to this change: the community activities in Zhangqiu No.4 Middle School became obviously active, and more than 20 student associations such as photography, literature and animation were established. Students "everyone has joined the club and has activities every week, each with its own specialties". Zhang Wen, a senior one student, is a member of the school computer association. Now he has time to surf the internet in the school computer room every week and ponder the computer.

The school is liberated, so you don't have to rack your brains to make up lessons. In the winter vacation of 2009, Shandong organized and inspected more than 80 primary and secondary schools in 48 counties, districts and cities, and all schools did not organize classes, make up lessons and study by themselves in any way.

Taking standardizing running schools as a breakthrough, taking senior high schools as a breakthrough, and strengthening educational accountability as a means, we will try our best to cut off the way of running schools that violate the laws of education, build qualified schools in an all-round way, implement curriculum plans in an all-round way, train qualified students in an all-round way, and strive to return time, health and ability to students, bringing about a new pattern of educational development in Shandong that schools, teachers, students and parents gradually agree and like. (Reporter Liu Huarong)