In October 2023, the summary and promotion meeting of labor education in primary and secondary schools in Beijing and the on-site meeting of labor education in Miyun District will be held, and students will make clay sculptures on site. Courtesy of Beijing Education Media Center More than 2000 excellent results of summer training for all cadres and teachers, and 197 promotion results; 231 excellent achievements in the construction of basic education courses, 868 "quality courses in basic education", excellent homework design, excellent classroom teaching design, and excellent cases of experimental teaching and lesson telling activities... On December 28, 2023, Beijing Basic Education Curriculum Teaching Reform and Teaching Research Conference was held, and a series of cases of basic education curriculum teaching reform achievements were announced.
"High quality development is the lifeline of basic education, and we should speed up the construction of a high-quality basic education system," said Li Yi, deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee's Education Working Committee and director of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission. Since 2023, the capital's education system has promoted reform and innovation in curriculum and teaching reform, cultivation of excellent innovative talents, construction of teachers, education digitization, education evaluation and other aspects, so as to better meet the people's expectations for students to "learn well".
Focus 1
Adhere to the integration of five educations and make good use of the "living teaching materials" around
"I think the PLA uncles are the most lovely people. They go out early and come back late, covered in mud and water, and go out again the next day before dawn, which is very hard." At the class meeting themed "Flood fighting and disaster relief stories around me" at the Miaofengshan Ethnic School in Mentougou District, children thanked the most lovely people with clay works.
This summer, Beijing was hit by a rare heavy rain in history. Schools in the disaster hit areas such as Mentougou and Fangshan will carry forward the spirit of flood fighting and disaster relief into the "big thinking and political courses" of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor education, and cultivate students' family and country feelings and responsibility. The first lesson of the semester, the class group meeting, cross school, cross discipline project-based learning... The touching stories in the flood relief turned into the most convincing realistic "teaching materials".
With compulsory education physical education and health assessment as the starting point, we will enrich competition activities, improve education and teaching models, and strengthen resource supply... Beijing will continue to promote school physical education reform, effectively drive the majority of primary and secondary school students to become active and healthy, and promote their physical and mental health and all-round development. "We always adhere to the educational philosophy that sports is the best education, and the playground is the best education classroom, so that every child should stand in the center of the playground." Wang Pan, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, emphasized.
School aesthetic education is also widely carried out. In April this year, the teachers and students of the "Husler" horse head piano orchestra of Tanying Manchu Mongolian Township Central Primary School in Miyun District stepped on the stage of the National Grand Theater, and their exquisite performance was warmly applauded on the spot. Since this year, relying on the "Aesthetic Education Grass" Youth Art Festival jointly sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and the National Grand Theater, more than 50 rural schools in the suburbs have stepped onto the stage of the National Grand Theater.
Up to now, the festival has carried out more than 60 student performances, covering more than 110 schools, and nearly 6000 students have stepped onto the stage of the Grand Theater. In the future, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission will continue to make overall use of the aesthetic education resources in Beijing, build an art practice platform for more young students, promote the improvement of students' artistic literacy, and promote the high-quality development of aesthetic education.
In terms of labor education, each district has made a good plan of labor development curriculum for students' interests and hobbies, and has realized a multi-level labor curriculum system. More than 700 resource units have provided more than 2000 rich practical courses of labor education for students by giving full play to the role of social class. Through the combination of process evaluation and result evaluation, students' labor education practice activities are comprehensively recorded.
"Next, we need to form a new concept of resources and environment for internal and external labor education. In school, we need to cross the boundaries of disciplines, penetrate into the basic links of education and teaching, and in external, we need to cross the boundaries of the campus, penetrate into the resources and environment of the entire region." Li Yi said.
Focus 2
Use the evaluation baton well and return to the "main position" of educating people
In July this year, Beijing focused on the real problems of basic education reform, and launched summer training for all primary and secondary school teachers. All primary and secondary school and kindergarten cadres and teachers completed the summer "charging" around the real problems in basic education fields such as new curriculum reform, teaching design, homework design, examination proposition, after class service at 3:30, comprehensive practice, physical education and aesthetic education, Consolidate teachers' basic skills of teaching and educating through practical training.
"Building an educational power gives new meaning to basic education. This is not simply 'labeling'. Every teacher in every discipline should find a breakthrough point from his own teaching plan, classroom, homework, and exam." Li Yi said that this training focuses on the reform of basic education in the context of an educational power, focusing on the practical application effect of training.
Inspired by experts from the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, Pinggu District Gushanji Central Kindergarten quickly adjusted its game activities and formulated the Ecological Education Game Plan for the new school year; The primary and secondary schools in Mentougou District held the opening ceremony in the form of "situational interactive psychological class meeting", and helped teachers, students, and parents recover their psychology after the disaster through a series of psychological games and activities... The two month "all staff training" was quickly transformed into "all staff practice", forming more than 2000 excellent teaching designs, homework designs, proposition designs Class team meeting and family school community collaborative education activity design and other case results.
The integrated comprehensive reform of "teaching, learning and evaluation" with high-quality development as the main line continued to advance. In September, with the idea of "big subtraction, small addition, multi-channel and new carrier", we promoted the reform of the high school entrance examination, reformed the examination method and adjusted the scoring method; In October, the "Quality Month" for the reform of the senior high school entrance examination was launched, and the teaching and research departments and responsible supervisors went to various schools to discuss and display the disciplines with adjusted evaluation methods; In December, we entered the "evaluation month" of the reform of the senior high school entrance examination. Li Yi said, "We hope to reduce the quantity and improve the quality, guide the reform of education and teaching methods, and guide the improvement and comprehensive development of students' core literacy with the evaluation reform as the guide."
The classroom of the school has also undergone substantial changes. In the geography class of Lize Middle School affiliated to Capital Normal University, students make private travel routes for travel agencies; In the biological laboratory of the east campus of Yunhe Middle School in Tongzhou District, students use dough, milk, peanuts, oranges, etc. to do experiments; The mature persimmons in the campus of Beijing No. 80 Middle School have become important materials for many courses, such as biology, labor, art, etc.
In the classroom, the atmosphere of life is stronger, more interesting experiments are conducted, and students have more independent thinking and exploration... Teachers guide children to construct knowledge and use knowledge in real scenes, to evaluate the baton, return to the campus, educate people in the classroom "main position", and promote the high-quality development of education. "Moisturizing things silently" occurs on children, becoming a real gain.
Focus 3
Building a "New Carrier" of Education by Resources Collaborative Supply
In the future, Beijing will further expand the role of high school education groups, education alliances and school districts to become a new carrier of education and provide more convenient conditions for children's growth. Students may no longer enter a single school, but enter an education group or education alliance, making the single school as the carrier of education in the past become a larger group.
Another important measure of the comprehensive reform of basic education in the capital is to explore the innovative talent training model for young people with the characteristics of the capital. At present, Beijing has set up a Youth Innovation Institute and named the first batch of 18 Beijing youth top-notch innovative talent training bases. In the future, in accordance with the principle of large framework construction and small incision pilot, we will promote the establishment of a three-level organized training system for top-notch innovative talents in urban schools, collect high-quality resources such as universities, middle schools and primary schools, off campus education, scientific research institutes, carry out systematic reforms in student discovery, curriculum development, teacher construction, etc., and explore new carriers and new tracks for innovative talent training.
In addition, Beijing has also explored the use of digital education to promote the reform of education and teaching models and improve the quality of education, constantly injecting new momentum into the high-quality development of basic education in the capital.
Dongcheng District digitised the resources of "Excellent Chinese Traditional Culture · Enlightenment Course", introduced the virtual scene of the museum into the platform, and used multiple technologies to present cultural relics to students in an all-round way; The double teacher classroom teaching experiment carried out by Guangqumen Middle School and Daxing District Changziying Middle School has realized the unified arrangement of course time, collaborative lesson preparation, and a total of one lesson; Fangshan Experimental Middle School uses big data technology to realize the digitalization of the whole process of teaching, learning, testing and evaluation... Beijing will further enrich high-quality digital education resources and improve the mechanism of resource development, updating, quality assurance and sharing.
"In the process of promoting the high-quality development of education, Beijing has gradually built a new collaborative education supply system, uniting all forces that can be united, collecting all useful resources, providing a powerful force for the growth and development of students, and striving to write a new chapter in the high-quality development of basic education in the capital," Li Yi said.
Beijing News reporter Yang Feifei Correspondent Zang Xiaofei
