The voice of the two sessions
In 2023, the Ministry of Education and 17 other departments jointly issued the Special Action Plan for Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving Student Mental Health in the New Era (2023-2025), marking the elevation of strengthening student mental health as a national strategy. In the past few days, the deputies and members of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress have actively put forward suggestions and suggestions on how to protect students' mental health and lay a good foundation for students' all-round development.
In July 2021, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Strengthening the Management of Students' Mental Health, requiring each primary and secondary school to have at least one full-time mental health education teacher. Li Ling, a deputy to the National People's Congress and principal of Hope Primary School in Xuwan Township, Dongxin District, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, found in the investigation that in the process of implementing this policy, the progress of various places is different, and the gap between urban and rural areas is obvious.
Li Ling suggested that the allocation of full-time mental health education teachers in primary and secondary schools should be included in the important content of local education supervision and the comprehensive performance evaluation of schools, and the proportion of full-time mental health education teachers in primary and secondary schools should be increased in the comprehensive evaluation of schools, and they should be included in the evaluation system of school leadership teams.
Li Ling proposed that the competent departments of education should strengthen the support and guarantee for the career development of full-time mental health education teachers, innovate systems and mechanisms, and accelerate the allocation of full-time mental health education teachers in township primary and secondary schools; All levels of health department should regularly or irregularly organize all kinds of training and exchange activities for full-time mental health education teachers in primary and secondary schools.
Li Ling also suggested that primary and secondary schools in all localities should focus on mental health education as a compulsory part of their pre-job training, professional training, and daily training for class teachers and teachers of various disciplines.
Hu Ruohan, a trainee reporter of this newspaper, comprehensive).
China Education Daily, 2024-03-07, page 4
Author: Hu Ruohan, trainee reporter of this newspaper.