"Reducing burden without reducing quality, improving quality and increasing efficiency" has become an important direction of reform in the field of education. As a direct participant and promoter of education,Huamei foreign language school has responded positively and is committed to exploring and implementing a series of innovative measures to reduce students' homework burden and ensure the double improvement of teaching quality and learning efficiency.
On the morning of November 7, 2024, a group of seven members of the expert group of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of education came to our school to investigate the students' homework burden, and conducted in-depth research on the students' homework burden and the school's education and teaching quality by listening to reports, checking homework texts,carry out in-depth research on students' homework burden and the quality of school education and teaching.
Plan Scientifically
and Reduce the Burden Accurately
Zhouxiang, the school's curriculum teaching director, made a special report from five dimensions: the construction and implementation of the homework management system, the quantity and quality of students' homework, the cognition of homework, the design, arrangement and correction of teachers' homework, and the situation of homework teaching, scientific research and training.
After listening to the report, the expert group interviewed the school management.
The expert group proposed:
How can the school reduce the burden of students' homework without reducing the quality, and what good experiences and practices does the school have?
Principal Dengdengjiang elaborated on the school's education and teaching philosophy:
Huamei foreign language school students' academic foundations are uneven, their needs are multi-level, and their source backgrounds are diverse. Therefore, the school also has great differences in the training of students. On the one hand, it sets up different courses to meet different needs, so that students' personality can be fully developed.On the other hand, in combination with the advantages of small class teaching in the school, the assignments were revised in full batches and face-to-face. Each composition was revised in three batches. Excellent compositions were also published in journals.Under the principle of "promoting development through evaluation and ensuring quality through evaluation", the corresponding merit salary payment method has been formulated, and the lesson preparation and homework evaluation have been included in the performance assessment summary to further mobilize the enthusiasm of teachers' work.
The excessive workload of repetition not only affects students' physical and mental health, but also may inhibit their learning interest and creativity. The school first started with the amount of homework, through teacher training and theme discussion, let teachers understand what is high-quality and efficient homework, and require teachers to do their own homework first. . At the same time, we will promote hierarchical homework, decompose homework experience, and design differentiated homework for students of different learning levels, so that each child can find a sense of achievement in the difficulty that suits him.
Optimize Content
and Improve Quality
Reducing workload does not mean giving up quality, but pursuing higher learning efficiency within a limited time.The school encourages teachers to innovate the form of homework, introduce project-based learning and inquiry based homework, and carry out a series of curriculum activities such as "Ai learning tour in Hong Kong", "study in Pengcheng", "Orchid Culture Tour" and "Chinese parasol blossoms" in combination with the school's resource advantages, so that students can learn from practice and grow in solving problems. At the same time, pay attention to the fun and life of homework, so that learning is no longer a boring task, but a wonderful journey to explore the world and find yourself.
Home-School Cooperation,
Co-Education of the Future
Family is the first classroom of education, and home school cooperation is the key to reduce the burden, improve quality and increase efficiency. Our school is a 12-year boarding school. Parents' choice of Huamei is a high recognition of the school's education and teaching quality. Through a series of measures to reduce the burden and improve the quality and efficiency, the school has enabled parents to change from the original worry about more homework to the appropriate amount of worry about homework, from less worry about homework to the improvement of worry about quality, and from more worry about homework forms to the improvement of worry about comprehensive quality. In the 2024 high school entrance examination, two students reached the four admission lines, and 75% of the students reached the public admission line for general high school
After the investigation, the expert group highly affirmed the work of reducing the burden, improving the quality and increasing the efficiency of our school. The school's management has advanced ideas. The school's system construction for reducing the burden, improving the quality and increasing the efficiency is sound and reasonable, and the inspection is implemented in place, which reduces the homework burden on students, and continuously improves the quality of education and teaching.
Reducing burden, improving quality and increasing efficiency is a systematic project, which requires the joint efforts of schools, families and society.
