Hot comments at the two sessions
The 2024 ** work report proposes to carry out actions to expand and improve the quality of basic education, and accelerate the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education and the integration of urban and rural areas. To build a strong country in education, the basis is basic education. The development of basic education in China has entered a period of superposition of the dual tasks of extension increment and connotation construction. Since the deployment and implementation of the action plan for expanding and improving the quality of basic education, all localities have insisted on proceeding from the actual development of education, on the one hand, promoting the supply-side reform of "three sections and one category" of high-quality educational resources, and on the other hand, promoting the innovation and development of the four major educational elements as a whole, and the people's satisfaction with basic education has risen.
Which tasks and actions will help promote the whole school period and systematically expand and improve the quality is one of the hot topics of education at the National Two Sessions this year. Teacher resource allocation, burden reduction, academic proficiency test ......All of them are important. Focusing on the strategic fulcrum that affects the whole body and solving the institutional and mechanism problems that affect the high-quality development of basic education is the primary premise for consolidating the positioning of basic education as the foundation for building a strong country in education.
Accelerate the elimination of the mindset and path dependence of "score-only" and "progression-only", and reverse the utilitarian trend of education. In recent years, from the national to the local level, we have comprehensively deepened various measures for the reform of educational evaluation, improved the implementation mechanism of cultivating morality, and continued to improve the curriculum, teaching, teaching and research, management culture, and home-school coordination in ordinary high schools and compulsory education. However, the problem of insufficient and unbalanced supply of high-quality educational resources and the mutual reinforcement of educational utilitarianism cannot be ignored. In the field of basic education, concepts such as "only scores" and "advancement to higher education first" are the products of accumulation over a long period of time, and they are stubborn diseases that must be solved with great efforts. Policy theory research should take advantage of the momentum, comprehensively improve the education evaluation system that highlights Chinese characteristics and reflects the world level, and promote construction through evaluation according to facts, so as to prevent the dilemma of weak executive power that is evaluated vigorously and unable to change. From top to bottom, the education sector should strengthen internal and external coordination, orderly promote institutional progress in supporting fields, deepen the construction of evaluation teams, analysis and application of evaluation results, etc., and build a professional support system for educational evaluation in accordance with local conditions.
Scientifically understand the important concept of "five educations" to guide the positioning of educational practice, and implement the diversification of talent training. The update of the "five educations" simultaneous training model is a complex system project, which is related to the specification of Lide Shuren. Educating people adheres to the "five educations" at the same time, and this concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. How to move from the "patched" and disorderly splicing primary version to the high-end version with deep adaptation and compatibility is still a big test for the majority of education practitioners. It is necessary to adhere to the consciousness of the main purpose, ensure that moral education comes first, consciously and comprehensively implement the party's education policy, and use down-to-earth and thematic methods to build a great ideological and political education system. It is necessary to clarify the main line of thinking, closely focus on the lifeline of teaching quality, thoroughly implement quality education, do a good job in the "addition" of science education, and accelerate the establishment of a normalized monitoring mechanism for the mental health of primary and secondary school students. It is necessary to distinguish the relationship between primary and secondary, and the simultaneous development of "five educations" is not equal to the average force, and we should recognize the limited nature of class time, space, venue and other conditions, and realize differentiated and characteristic development according to the school conditions, teachers, and students, and pursue the optimization of education methods.
Enrich the institutional significance of digital empowerment for the development of basic education, and ensure that it is people-oriented. "The digitalization of education is an important breakthrough for China to open up a new track for education development and shape new advantages for education development. "The digital age has arrived, and the education system has seized the opportunity to implement the national education digitalization strategy and build the world's largest education and teaching resource library. People are the starting point of education, and digital empowerment education should be based on the basic principle of promoting people's physical and mental development. On the basis of the accumulation of "quantity", it is necessary to further improve the total, structure, and appropriateness of high-quality digital educational resources, and expand the resource library of high-quality teaching examples in accordance with the principle of grading, classification, and subject refinement. On the basis of the construction of "points", it is necessary to further improve the overall education data infrastructure, improve the level of the mechanism of digital empowerment of basic education, focus on big data and artificial intelligence resources, strengthen the changes in the school-age population, promote the rationality of the structural adjustment of urban and rural schools, and improve the scientific and modern level of education governance.
It has been estimated that the level of basic education in China has reached the top of the world. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) clarified the direction and basic path for the high-quality development of basic education. The Ministry of Education, in collaboration with many national ministries and commissions, has launched an action to expand and improve the quality of basic education, aiming to establish and improve a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system, and ultimately ensure that basic education plays a fundamental role in the construction of an educational power. There is no doubt that this is a model of institutional design that embodies strategic thinking and goes beyond educational planning and educational reform. Therefore, focusing on the strategic fulcrum should become the top priority of organizing and implementing the action of expanding and improving the quality of basic education.
The author is an associate professor at the Center for Basic Education Governance and Innovation at South China Normal University
China Education Daily, 2024-03-07, 2nd edition
Author: Liu Leiming.