Parent Reflection The teacher taught 220 students, and it was difficult to mark the homework, and the education system was in a dilemma!
Dad: Why didn't the teacher correct the homework?Teacher: I teach 220 students, how do I correct them?
Recently, the interaction between teachers and parents has become more complex and controversial, especially when it comes to grading students' work. Parents want teachers to play a greater role in this and see marking assignments as part of a teacher's responsibility. However, some teachers have found it difficult to cope with the large amount of homework from students, especially in the context of the imminent implementation of curriculum services for primary and secondary school students, and this issue has once again been hotly debated.
Some parents insist that the teacher should be responsible for the student's homework. They believe that grading homework is an important way for teachers to understand students' mastery of knowledge, and only through marking homework can teachers provide targeted guidance to students. As for parents, they generally believe that their knowledge is limited, and they can only say the right and wrong of the problem, but it is difficult to understand the reason for the right and wrong of the problem. Therefore, they believe that teachers should take on this responsibility in order to guarantee the academic performance of students.
However, some teachers countered that their own workloads were already heavy and their classes were too large to cope with the task of grading a large number of students' work. One teacher said:"I was in charge of a total of four classes with 55 students each, which meant I had to grade 220 students' work, which was too much to handle. This amount of work prevented me from completing the grading work on time"。In conclusion, teachers regret that other tasks such as class management are already tiring and it is difficult to increase the workload.
In this debate over whether or not to grade student work, there are two forces defending their arguments. Parents insist that teachers are responsible for grading assignments, while teachers feel they are overworked. In the context of the imminent implementation of curriculum services for primary and secondary school students, the debate on this issue is becoming more and more worrying, and better communication and understanding are needed on both sides to find a solution.
Many teachers struggle with whether or not to grade students' work. 220 students, it takes at least three hours to do a one-minute assignment without a break. This is a real problem for many teachers, especially those who are responsible for several classes, some with as many as six or seven people, making the task of grading assignments increasingly unbearable.
Although more and more teacher training graduates are pouring into China's educational resources every year, the number of primary and secondary school teachers is still quite limited in practice. As a result, some schools have adopted the practice of one teacher being responsible for several classes, some teachers being responsible for two classes, and some teachers working part-time. Even for some experienced teachers, the school may assign them only one class, but they are still responsible for the other classes. As a result, teachers lament the heavy pressure of their work, as they not only have to deal with many aspects such as class management, but also have to complete a large number of student assignments.
In this case, some teachers choose not to assign homework in order to reduce their own burden, because the Ministry of Education has issued a notice stipulating that the homework assigned by teachers must be corrected by the teachers themselves. Grading assignments has become a mandatory rule, so more and more teachers are choosing not to assign assignments in order to solve this problem and reduce their burden.
The author believes that many parents' dissatisfaction stems from the fact that teachers do not correct homework, because it means that parents have to take responsibility for their own education. Although it seems to be just grading homework, it is actually quite a tedious thing, and sometimes it even makes parents feel tortured and very tormented. Therefore, parents expect teachers to take up this responsibility.
But in fact, the working hours of teachers in China are very tight and the workload is very high. If teachers take every assignment seriously, it is nearly impossible to complete all the tasks in 24 hours. Grading homework is not only a matter of quantity, but more importantly, it is necessary to study students' problems in depth and provide personalized guidance. Therefore, teachers do face a lot of work pressure, and parents should be more understanding and supportive.
The Ministry of Education stipulates that teachers must mark assignments in person, but it does not specify the manner and extent of correction. Therefore, teachers can take the method of spot check to correct homework, only check a part of the students every day, and ensure that each student corrects several times a week, which not only meets the needs of detecting students' learning, but also reduces the workload of teachers. In addition, it can also be considered to use the method of mutual correction by classmates and explanation by teachers to achieve the effect of joint participation.
In short, when it comes to education, parents don't have to be overly sensitive to grading homework. Teachers are well aware of their own work, and each has its own frequency and ability. The work of teachers is indeed very stressful, and I hope that parents will have more trust and less conflict.
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