Does "reducing the load" mean reducing students' homework time?
Wang Ying. The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education issued the "Implementation Plan for Reducing the Burden on Primary and Secondary School Students in Zhejiang Province (Draft for Comments)", which intends to stipulate that primary school students who fail to complete school homework at 9 p.m. and junior high school students at 10 p.m. can refuse to complete the remaining homework after confirmation by their parents.
It does not seem to conform to the logic of reducing the burden by using the length of time students spend on homework to measure the weight of students' learning load and trying to reduce the burden by shortening the homework time. The length of time students do homework generally depends on two factors: one is the amount of homework, which will inevitably lengthen students' homework time, coupled with some inefficient repetitive homework, which will inevitably increase students' learning time;The second is the learning level of students, facing the same homework problem, students with a high learning level may be able to complete it in a few minutes, while students with a low learning level may take a long time.
Moreover, this kind of specification also lacks feasibility and operability. No matter what subject the teacher assigns, when assigning homework, it is impossible to be accurate to the minute and second, and it can only be a rough estimate. Furthermore, if the parents refuse to complete the remaining homework after confirmation, what is the basis for the parents' confirmation?Confirmation only by point in time?Therefore, it is questionable to reduce the burden by simply standardizing students' homework time.
It has been proven that in addition to the physical burden, the learning burden of students is more manifested as a psychological burden or a mental burden. From the point of view of being conducive to the physical development of adolescents and reducing the burden on the body, it is reasonable to stipulate that elementary school students should rest before 9 o'clock and junior high school students should rest before 10 o'clock. However, if we consider it from the perspective of reducing the psychological burden or mental burden, it is obvious that we do not grasp the main contradiction by only making up our minds about the students' homework time. To solve the problem of students' homework time, we need to work hard from the following aspects:
First of all, efforts should be made to cultivate students' interest in learning. Interest is the best teacher, and if students have a strong interest in learning, they will no longer treat homework as a burden.
Cultivating children's interest in learning is not only the responsibility of the school, but also the responsibility of parents: to correct students' learning attitudes and guide students to establish lofty goals and ideals;It is necessary to be good at protecting and stimulating students' curiosity and desire for knowledge, guiding students to learn to think, learn to learn, and experience the joy of knowledge in the process of solving problemsIt is necessary to take a correct view of students' mistakes and failures, and not to dampen students' enthusiasm for learning because of a failure in an examination.
Second, efforts should be made to improve the efficiency of classroom teaching. Students have long hours and heavy homework loads, in large part because of the inefficiency of classroom teaching. Some teachers are not serious in preparing lessons, resulting in unclear classroom teaching objectives and failure to grasp the key points, so they have to make up for it by assigning homework and repeated trainingSome teachers have backward teaching concepts, and the classroom teaching method is still "full of lectures" and "full of questions", and students are not given time for independent learning, independent thinking and on-the-spot training, and can only consolidate the knowledge they have learned that day by assigning heavy homeworkIn order to catch up with the teaching progress, some teachers occupy self-study classes, and students can only use extracurricular time to complete homework ......
To reduce the burden of homework on students, schools should explore and implement the strategy of "training in the classroom and meeting the standards in the classroom", and classroom teachers should be concise and concise, leaving students with time for consolidation and training, so that students can complete their homework in class and improve the efficiency of classroom teaching. At the same time, it is strictly forbidden for teachers to use self-study classes to give lectures and let students complete homework in self-study classes, so that teachers can give timely feedback on students' homework.
Third, we must make efforts to teach students according to their aptitude. Teaching students according to their aptitude is not only reflected in the management and education of students, but also in the differentiated assignment of homework. When assigning homework, teachers should not engage in "one-size-fits-all", and can assign homework of different difficulties according to the learning level of students. In this way, it not only respects the differences in students' abilities, enhances students' self-confidence, but also reduces the burden of completing homework for some students. However, assigning different types of homework is not to forcibly stratify and discriminate against students, but to allow students to choose independently according to their learning ability.
Reducing the burden is not only an educational issue, but also a family issue and a social issue. To prevent the emergence of a strange circle of "reducing the burden on schools and increasing the burden on parents", parents should effectively change the concept of education, eliminate anxiety and comparison psychology, and focus on cultivating children's learning interests, learning habits and personality qualities from the perspective of children's healthy growth, so as to lay the foundation for children's future development.