Chao News client reporter Jiang Xiaorong.
There is no winter vacation homework, which is what many netizens looked forward to when they were children, and it has come true this winter.
Not long ago, a primary school in Hangzhou announced that traditional written homework would be completely canceled during this year's winter vacation. In its place, there is a special "winter holiday life guide".
One stone stirs up a thousand waves. This is where a discussion about winter vacation homework begins – should there be homework assignments during winter vacation? What kind of winter vacation homework is suitable for assigning? What does the ideal winter vacation homework look like in everyone's eyes?
First of all, let's take a look at the topic that everyone is most concerned about in this discussion, how do you think about the cancellation of winter vacation homework in elementary schools?
Sanlian Life Weekly launched a poll on Weibo, and the results showed that 8,323 netizens voted for canceling the winter vacation homework, and 3,279 netizens felt that it was not necessary to cancel it completely.
There are not only a large number of netizens, but also the blessing of celebrities - Ma Yili said clearly, "Raise your hands in agreement!" ”
The reason is also very good - netizen "Xiaoyu 2021" said: "Winter vacation homework should be canceled, and the learning effect cannot be achieved through this way of doing questions, which will only increase the psychological pressure of children." Netizen "derry" believes that the holiday is to let the children rest and adjust, and they can use the vacation time to take their children out to travel and see the world, or participate in some interesting winter camps, summer camps, and research activities, so as to give children a happy childhood.
In the interview, some parents even felt that not only should the winter vacation homework be canceled, but also the opening exam is not necessary. In order to test the learning results of the so-called holidays, or spur students who did not study well during the holidays, many schools take exams at the beginning of the school year, making children anxious and nervous. The curriculum in primary school is not so difficult, and it can be made up slowly after the start of school, and there is no need to "race against time".
The opposing side also made it clear that the holiday does not mean that you will stop learning. "Cancel the winter vacation homework, but parents dare not slack off, most of them have to assign homework to their children by themselves, but most parents are unprofessional and may fall into another kind of anxiety. A mom said.
There are also parents who support halving the amount of homework, but it is not reasonable to cancel all of them. "Some schools do have too much homework, and it should be reduced appropriately. However, learning is a continuous process, and if you suddenly interrupt for a period of time, it will be difficult to find a learning state after the start of school. ”
No matter how the two sides argue, the school that took the lead in canceling the winter vacation homework is certainly courageous, which is a clear attitude of the school on the matter of reducing the burden, and at the same time it is an unknown exploration. As for the effect, time may tell.
In fact, the complete abolition of written assignments has a lot of resistance in practice for the upper grades of primary school, especially junior high school. In the opinion of many principals, the most appropriate approach in the current educational environment is to appropriately reduce the number of written assignments and increase the appropriate amount of non-written assignments.
There have always been such explorations. Recently, Hubei Yichang Tianwen Education Group assigned a special winter vacation homework to students: everyone learned to beat "eggs", and set the egg breaking project as a school-based curriculum for the new semester. To this end, the school specially printed a batch of special poker props (2 decks of cards, 108 cards) as a New Year's gift to all teachers and students.
Some netizens asked, how can eggs be used as winter vacation homework? Isn't it a bit too much? Some people think that there is nothing wrong with breaking eggs, as a kind of intellectual game, to appear in winter vacation homework.
Compared with the summer vacation, the winter vacation is shorter, and the Spring Festival is included in the middle. The particularity of the holiday also puts forward higher requirements for how to arrange homework.
Recently, some areas in Zhejiang have also issued guidance on winter vacation homework. For example, Shangcheng District divided the winter vacation homework into two topics for design. The first is "eight days of fun during the Spring Festival, 'no homework' in Shangcheng", no written homework is assigned from Chinese New Year's Eve to the seventh day of the first lunar month, and practical activities related to Spring Festival folk customs and family affection experience are mainly promoted; The second is the discipline practice assignment of "learning for the future and 'doing' for life", emphasizing the real application of knowledge.
A few days ago, during the winter vacation homework of Hangzhou Jianlan Middle School, the seventh and eighth grade students became "newcomers in the workplace" to carry out short-term career experience activities. In the early stage, the school received more than 100 career experience points from enthusiastic people from all walks of life, with a total of more than 900 positions, including book organizers, delivery packers, AI painters, florists, intangible cultural heritage project handicraftsmen, etc.
Jianlan Middle School students have a career experience during the holidays Courtesy of the school.
The teachers of the first and second grades of Hangzhou Qianjiang Foreign Chinese Experimental School set their sights on the "New Year's goods" in the New Year's custom, so that students could learn how to make a purchasing plan and make a purchase list when preparing ingredients for Chinese New Year's Eve meals and buying New Year's goods for visiting relatives and friends.
The school's first and second grade purchases New Year's goods for the winter vacation.
The Binjiang District Education Bureau launched a winter vacation practice activity with the theme of "Great Challenge". Challenges include a "24-hour electronics-free" challenge to develop self-management skills; "Home Alone for a Day" challenge to develop survivability; "Accompany your grandparents for a day" challenge activities, cultivate a sense of gratitude, and more.
Winter vacation homework like this allows children to appreciate the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, and at the same time, they also gain more from practice, not just repeated written exercises.
In the various discussions on homework during the winter vacation, Fengjun also found a point that many parents are concerned about: aside from written homework, excessive or excessive practical homework may add another burden to children and parents.
The tabloid is a high-frequency word for many school winter vacation homework. "Chinese, mathematics, English, science, one tabloid for each subject, I originally wanted my children to complete it by themselves, but when I went back to school, I had to evaluate it, and I didn't dare to slack off. A third-grade mom said.
In addition to tabloids, many schools now have practical homework such as ppt, shooting, and taking pictures, and most of these homework require the help of parents, and it is difficult for children in lower grades to complete independently.
Another type of work that everyone discusses a lot is the various types of clock-in assignments. "Originally, the holiday was in a more relaxed state, in order to complete the check-in homework, even if it was the New Year, I had to keep an eye on the children to complete, and parents had to upload it every day. Some parents complained.
For a variety of practical assignments, many people suggest that the starting point of these assignments is actually good, but it is necessary to grasp the degree and design it according to the physical and mental characteristics of children of different ages, so as to ensure that they can complete it independently and do not become "parent homework".
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