Since the fall of 2008, the high school curriculum reform in Shanxi Province has been fully launched. 17 ordinary high schools in Taiyuan City have become experimental bases for the new curriculum. Now, one year has passed. The first batch of students after the curriculum reform have entered the second grade of high school, and the second batch of students has also started school. The new curriculum reform has made great changes in learning content and learning methods, and has added courses such as comprehensive practice, which will also bring inevitable reforms to the college entrance examination system in the future. Although there are still two years until the college entrance examination, parents still have many doubts and confusions about the new curriculum reform. At the same time, they express a lot of joy and worry that the future college entrance examination may be based on students' usual grades or teacher recommendations.
Raise your hands in favor of the hope that children with good grades can be saved
Tiantian’s mother (her child is in the first grade of high school): I think the new curriculum reform is good. Now the children learn more things. Comprehensive. Wasn’t it true that liberal arts and science subjects were all scored in the past? Liberal arts students knew nothing about science and were all scientifically illiterate; science students had no understanding of liberal arts and did not even understand basic historical and cultural common sense. What talents nowadays need is comprehensive quality, and they should have knowledge of liberal arts and science!
Ruru’s mother (her child has started her second year of high school): I see that technical courses and comprehensive experimental courses have been added to my child’s curriculum. From this point of view, I think it is still very good for children. These practical courses can allow them to enter the real world, understand the surrounding environment, and learn some small skills. How great! During the vacation, my daughter just made After a week of community service activities, although she looked very tired and I felt very sorry for her, her words, "It's really hard work for the aunts who sweep the streets," made me feel happy at that time. The child has really become sensible. .
Liangliang’s mother (my child is in the first year of high school): Because my child has also caught up with the high school curriculum reform, I am also very nervous, so I asked some teachers in advance. They said that the new curriculum reform places more emphasis on daily grades and Performance. Because courses usually count as credits, only if you have earned enough credits can you be eligible to apply for college. How great is this? My child's psychological quality is very poor, and his grades are usually pretty good, but when the critical moment comes, he falls behind. No, he didn't do well in the high school entrance examination. If the future college entrance examination really requires reference to ordinary grades, wouldn't my children be saved? And I feel that if this is the case, the children will know that they need to study down to earth from the first year of high school.
Expressed suspicion that if human factors increase, will there be more unfairness?
Fengfeng’s mother (her child has started her second year of high school): I’m not talking nonsense. Based on my child’s one-year study From a practical point of view, social practice classes and comprehensive experimental classes are not as practical as everyone thinks! For most students, they just take the form home, fill it out, and contact their parents to get it stamped. Well, it has never really been practiced at all. Whether it is because some parents are unwilling to worry that their children will be harmed, or some communities cannot provide such practical activities, the fundamental reason is that the scoring standard for these two credits is not an on-site assessment of what you have learned, but a practical report, so it is fraudulent. It's very easy. Unlike an exam, you can get as many points as you put in, it's simple and straightforward.
At that time, he was admitted to the provincial key middle school based on his own strength. But after studying for a year, my whole person changed. I had to study two books in one semester, which made my baby cry all day long. No, when school was about to start, she cried three times. Once when she was writing an assignment that she didn’t understand, she almost tore her favorite doll to pieces! She even cried and said she didn’t want to go to school anymore. I'm almost worried to death.
Jiajia’s mother (her child is in the first grade of high school): Actually, what I’m most worried about is that being a class leader will give you extra points, and teachers’ different levels of evaluation will also lead to score differences. I also understand that the original intention of this is to encourage children to perform well every day, but in actual situations, it is inevitable that parents and teachers will try to get good grades.
For ordinary people like us who have neither money nor power, isn't it even more unfair?
High school curriculum reform, the general direction is good
Fu Hongyan (Vice Principal of Taiyuan Yuying Middle School): The main goal of this curriculum reform is to cultivate students’ desire and ability for lifelong learning, rather than simply cultivating students’ examination ability as in the past. Therefore, learning more courses is not only to improve overall quality, but also to allow children to understand the professional direction they are good at and like during the learning process. After the curriculum reform, the general high school curriculum consists of three levels: learning areas, subjects and modules, reflecting that education pays more attention to the cultivation of students' comprehensive abilities. The high school curriculum will set up eight learning areas: language and literature, mathematics, humanities and society, science, technology, art, sports and health, and comprehensive practical activities, including Chinese, mathematics, foreign languages, ideological and political, history, geography, and physics. , chemistry, biology, art, physical education and health, technology and other 12 subjects. Each subject is composed of several modules, which are independent of each other and reflect the logical connection of the subject content.
After the curriculum reform, each student must obtain certain credits in each field of study every academic year. In 3 years, he will obtain 116 compulsory credits (including 15 credits for research-based learning activities and 2 credits for community service). Credits, 6 credits of social practice), 22 credits in elective course I, and at least 6 credits in elective course II, with a total score of 144 credits before graduation.
As for the questions you have raised about the new curriculum reform, we have heard a lot of them, and we also face some practical problems, such as teachers. Teachers are not sure about the new textbooks and don’t know how to teach them. Waiting for new questions. They are all crossing the river by feeling the stones. But judging from one year of teaching practice, the general direction of curriculum reform is still right. In the past, no one in our school's first-grade mathematics class had a 100-point score, but last year there were several students who got perfect scores. Elective courses such as the Big Bang and the I Ching developed based on the characteristics of our school’s teachers have also become popular courses sought after by many students.
After the curriculum reform, the range of courses students study has expanded. Students can choose courses that suit them based on their own characteristics, interests and future individual development directions, rather than blindly seeking perfection. No one can master all fields.
As for the backdoor and trust relationships that parents are worried about, the new curriculum reform cannot prevent this phenomenon from happening, but compared to the past, I think the role of the backdoor can actually play a role. It's gotten smaller. Because the courses and scores are spread over the three years of study and life, rather than any exam or assessment in it, parents cannot hope to change everything about their children by just going through the back door once. They can never trust Guanxi. Go through all the teachers in 3 years. What we parents and children should do is actually work hard to adjust and adapt to the new curriculum changes.
Zhao Jianbo (English teacher at Provincial Experimental Middle School): I started teaching the first-year students only after the school started this year. Although it is the first time to teach students after the new curriculum reform, according to the teachers who taught the class last year, there are some changes, but not big. The main purpose is to add some highly practical texts so that children can use them immediately after learning, such as how to apply for a credit card and other common sense in daily life. As for the content of the course, it remains the same. For teachers who have been teaching for many years, this is not a problem. Just because they don’t know how to change the college entrance examination system, it has caused confusion among teachers who have no sense of direction in teaching. They are always afraid that they will not take into account everything, so they will supplement the students with more knowledge points, which may also bring some invisibility to the children. burden.
In fact, I feel that it may be because teachers and students have not really opened their minds. Students should be allowed to choose their own learning. After all, learning is a lifelong matter, and diversified development is the goal we most want to achieve. And not just to cope with the college entrance examination.