In Greek mythology, King Pygmalion of Cyprus carved a beautiful girl statue with exquisite skills. Working day and night, he gave all his energy, enthusiasm and love to the statue and dressed her like his wife. Sincerely, the stone opened, and Cupid was finally moved by him, giving life to the statue. Today, "pygmalion effect" has been applied to all fields of social life, which means that as long as positive expectations are conveyed to a person or an event, the object will progress faster and develop better.
Looking back on the development of China's education in recent years, before the founding of New China, the enrollment rate of school-age children in China was only 20%, and the "two basics" were successfully realized. From the popularization of higher education to actively building a world-class university, isn't it a process of promoting reform and progress because of expectations, and then generating new expectations, promoting new reforms and triggering new progress? This also makes the educational achievements in each stage steady and solid, and every step of educational reform is forceful.
At present, education in China is still the same.
With a series of progress in education reform and development, people's expectations for education have further improved. How to change from "learning" to real "learning", how to further promote education balance and realize "starting point fairness", how to speed up the pace of building a world-class university in China by building a modern university system, and how to effectively solve the "long-standing problem" of reducing the burden, so as to make learning a happy thing. How to fundamentally break the "one exam for life" and form a fair, scientific and efficient talent selection model ... has become a new expectation in the public's mind, and these expectations are also difficult problems faced by the education field after the education reform enters the "deep water area". Facing the expectation, strengthening the top-level design and deepening the comprehensive reform in the field of education have become the inevitable choice for the development and progress of education in China.
The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee blew the horn of deepening the comprehensive reform in the field of education and pointed out the direction of the comprehensive reform in the field of education.
All this makes us feel heartfelt happiness at the end of the year and the beginning of the year. A kind of happiness that is expected to haunt me, a kind of beautiful happiness outlined.
Let the power of expectation inject positive energy into the development of education and make education progress because of expectation. 20 14 has arrived, winter goes and spring comes, waiting for flowers to bloom.
Expect children to have a better mind and a healthier constitution.
What kind of child will I have in six or nine years? This is the most natural question in every parent's mind when sending their children to school for education.
Can our children skillfully use computers and IPAD and speak fluent English, while still maintaining sincere respect and love for their traditional culture, mother tongue and Chinese characters? While our children are strong and self-reliant, can they still have sympathy for the weak and care for others? When our children learn to be independent, do they also know how to help the world?
Many years ago, our expectations for children were simple, just hoping that children could go out of the mountains and receive education, just hoping that children could have books to read and culture. But today, with the changes of the times, the development of the country and the improvement of ideas, we seem to have more expectations for the growth of children. With the diversification of social consciousness and culture, the advent of the Internet era and the mixed quality of cultural products, we seem to pay more attention to the growth of children.
The public expects to cultivate a healthy child, a child with correct outlook on life and values, 20 14.
Can our children have a healthy body, vivid imagination, strong curiosity and rich creativity while having extensive knowledge?
—— Wang Dianbin, a teacher of No.1 Middle School in Yan 'an City, Shaanxi Province
Looking forward to achieving "starting point fairness"
The fairness of education is the fairness at the starting point. Promoting educational equity is an inevitable requirement of adhering to the public welfare and inclusiveness of education under the socialist system.
What needs to be faced squarely is that at present, under the basic national conditions of the primary stage of socialism, the development of education in urban and rural areas and regions in China is still unbalanced, and the backward situation of education in poverty-stricken areas and ethnic minority areas needs to be changed urgently. Therefore, this situation can still be seen: when children in big cities have skillfully searched for the knowledge and information they need online, children in mountainous areas are still excited about taking a computer class; When children in high-quality resource schools are used to face-to-face communication with "super teachers", children in areas with weak educational resources can only feel the elegance of famous teachers through CDs; Some students with superior family conditions can study abroad and learn all kinds of talents, while those with financial difficulties are still saving money for next semester's tuition; Because the gap between regions, between urban and rural areas and between schools still exists, the phenomenon of "choosing schools" is still banned repeatedly. ...
To promote educational equity, it is necessary to let fair sunshine shine on every corner of the earth and ensure that "every child is not left behind". Therefore, it has become the expectation of every family, especially people in areas with weak educational resources, to further improve the financial aid system for students with financial difficulties, to build an effective mechanism to expand the coverage of high-quality educational resources by means of information technology, to make teachers really move, to increase attention and investment in areas with weak educational resources, and to gradually narrow the gap between regions, urban and rural areas and schools.
20 14, to achieve "fair starting point", the public expects.
To promote educational equity, we should not only give priority to the equality of citizens' educational opportunities, but also make good use of policy means to promote the fairness of public educational resources allocation, and pay more attention to promoting the fairness of educational system rules.
-Netizen "People reach middle age"
I look forward to a smoother channel for lifelong learning.
Many people have such a learning dream:
During college, if you have spare capacity, you can study two, three or even more majors. The time to finish school is not so rigid and rigid, and it can be different according to everyone's ability and pace of life. When choosing a course, you can break the boundary between major and college and choose any favorite teacher's course. After graduation, if you still need to improve your knowledge, whether it is English, computer, time management, teamwork, communication and negotiation skills, there are professional learning software to help you find out your own shortcomings and improve your training.
Learning can be done at work, at home, or anytime and anywhere on the road. Learning is no longer limited by time and space. The results of learning can be accumulated into credits and deposited in the "credit bank". If academic education is carried out in the future, the credits accumulated before can also be used to offset the credits for academic education in the future.
Through such a learning system, our learning will become more integrated, and learning is no longer a specific task at a specific stage of life, but a lifelong process. Our study will become more leisurely, more interest-oriented, and will not have such a strong utilitarian heart and purpose as it is today. Our study will become an internal self-need, which varies from person to person and is full of personality, and study will become a happier thing.
This is the concept of lifelong learning, and a complete "credit system" has been realized.
Three years ago, the Outline of Education Planning clearly pointed out: to build a "overpass" for lifelong learning, and to provide a variety of choices to meet the diverse learning and development needs of individuals. Establish a system of accumulation and conversion of continuing education credits to realize mutual recognition and convergence of different types of learning achievements. We look forward to the early arrival of this day.
—— Zhao Liang, a teacher at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Parents are expected not to get tired of "choosing schools"
We often hear this kind of situation.
"In fact, I was quite rational before I gave birth to a child, and I made up my mind that I must not be a member of the school selection army. I can wait until I have a child and the child reaches school age, but I don't know why I can't calm down. I can't help but fall into the torrent of school choice, from kindergarten to primary school to junior high school, from school to class to teacher. "
The strong desire to receive high-quality education and the realistic contradiction of unbalanced educational resources and educational level make school choice an active or passive choice for many parents. Although the education department has repeatedly said that it is necessary to cool down the "school choice fever", in the face of uneven strength and quality of educational resources, parents always try their best to let their children go to "better" schools. "Who wants to give their children's future to a school they don't trust?"
Yes, in today's unbalanced educational resources, "choosing a school" is a natural choice for students and parents to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. To cool down the "school choice fever", we must make great efforts to make a fuss about the allocation of educational resources.
Fortunately, on 20 13, we saw that many regions made a lot of efforts in exploring high-quality schools with educational resources and promoting schools with weak educational resources. Some regions also introduced good policies to change teachers from "school people" to "institutional people" and let teachers really flow. Some areas attract golden phoenix to less developed schools through policies such as professional titles and treatment. In some areas, it is also explored to turn every school in the family into a high-quality school with distinctive characteristics. The Third Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China decided to put forward that compulsory education should be admitted to the nearest school without examination, and try out district system, so that we are full of hope that we will not be tired of "choosing schools" in 20 14 years.
When the educational resources are truly balanced, parents will naturally regain their rationality, and will not blindly choose the so-called "good schools", but choose the schools that are most suitable for their children and close to home.
—— Reader Guo of Jingou Village, Peicheng Town, Peixian County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province
Looking forward to bidding farewell to the unbearable weight of the college entrance examination
In 20 14 years, among the public's expectations for education, the most urgent thing is to pay attention to the college entrance examination. How to make the college entrance examination no longer "a lifelong test", how to further give consideration to efficiency and fairness, and how to make the college entrance examination no longer an "unbearable weight" in a child's life are the expectations of thousands of families in Qian Qian.
The reform of college entrance examination has attracted much attention, not only because it provides the possibility for the fair and orderly flow of society, but also because the reform of college entrance examination is related to the reform direction of the whole basic education.
20 13, there is a lot of good news related to the reform of college entrance examination. The Third Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to clearly put forward a multi-admission mechanism for comprehensive evaluation based on the results of the unified college entrance examination and the high school level examination, and explore the national unified examination to reduce the number of subjects, regardless of arts, sciences, foreign languages and other subjects for more than one year. The policy of "off-site college entrance examination", which has attracted much attention, has been introduced in various provinces. 20 13 college entrance examination, some provinces and regions have already had the first batch of beneficiaries. At the same time, in 20 13, the enrollment plan of key universities will be increased to 30,000 in 20 12 10000, so that candidates from poor areas will have more opportunities to enter their favorite institutions of higher learning.
In 20 14, the public still has heavy expectations for the college entrance examination. People expect that the way of talent selection will be more efficient and scientific, the system of talent evaluation will be more reasonable and diversified, and the examination selection system will be more conducive to promoting social equity. ...
In recent years, the adjustment of the college entrance examination scheme has been going on, but it is still in a partial "tinkering". In view of the unique position of college entrance examination in the whole education chain, the reform of college entrance examination obviously needs a set of overall design that takes the overall situation into account and touches the root.
-netizens "plug in the wings of dreams"
Looking forward to more attractive vocational colleges.
Speaking of vocational education, do you want to say "it's hard to love you in my heart" or "it's hard to say"?
Since 10, there have been 72.65 million graduates from vocational colleges at all levels in China, and the contribution rate of vocational education to the growth of the average educational years of the main working population in China is 2 1%. The initial employment rate of secondary vocational graduates has been above 95% for six consecutive years, and the employment rate of higher vocational colleges has reached above 87%. However, the general understanding of vocational education in society still stays in the old concept.
Deepening the comprehensive reform in the field of education, emphasizing the acceleration of the construction of modern vocational education system and the "modernity" of vocational education have conveyed the message that vocational education should become more fashionable and attractive.
It should be said that today, vocational education has won a good development opportunity. In the process of changing from "Made in China" to "Created in China", under the background of the shortage of high-skilled talents in China, and with the concept of "learning society" and "lifelong education", vocational education has reason to take a big step. 20 14, we are full of confidence.
A misunderstanding has plagued the field of vocational education for many years-"Vocational education is only a matter of education", even an internal matter of vocational education. In fact, we should look at vocational education from the perspectives of "for all" and "for all social workers". Vocational education plays a vital role in establishing a learning society and forming a lifelong education system in China. And most importantly, vocational education can really make people's lives better.
—— Zang Like, Vice President of tianjin sino-german vocational technical college
Looking forward to the effectiveness of educational supervision.
Educational supervision, also known as "educational police", is a new thing.
Before the end of 20 13, many schools had a small sign with photos, names and contact information. The person on this small sign is the responsible inspector of the school, who will regularly supervise the enrollment, management, curriculum setting, teachers' morality construction and students' burden reduction of the school. To make a metaphor, this person is the "film policeman" of education.
Many parents have high expectations for this educational "film policeman". I hope he can become a bridge, always understand the people's expectations for education, and pass their voices to schools and education authorities; It is expected that he can become a "quality inspector" to examine and judge whether the school's education and teaching conform to the educational law with a professional perspective and rigorous attitude; Parents are still looking forward to this educational "film policeman". Don't be a mere formality or a flash in the pan.
A healthy educational ecology should not be evaluated by educators, but should be supervised and evaluated by an independent third party. 20 13, the educational supervision system took a gratifying first step in China. 20 14, the healthy development of education supervision can be expected.
In the past, the initiative to evaluate the success of education was in the hands of local governments and even schools in charge of education. There is something wrong with education, the quality of education is not high, the public can't reflect it, and local governments or schools won't take the initiative to be accountable. Therefore, it is an important goal of education supervision to let social evaluation and introduce the third-party evaluation mechanism, which is also the mature experience of developed countries in education and an important direction for the future development of education in China.
—— Zhao, the parents of senior three students in Jilin Experimental Middle School
Expecting to reduce the burden is no longer a utopia in education.
When can learning become a real pleasure for children? This is a question in the hearts of many parents.
Behind the questioning is the indisputable fact that students are overburdened. It has become the expectation of every student, every family and even the whole nation to watch the children's small bodies carrying big schoolbags, burying their heads in high piles of books, watching more and more "little glasses" and a series of pessimistic data about teenagers' physique, and effectively reducing the burden on students.
But the difficulty of reducing the burden is that it can't be done overnight. This is a systematic project, involving many stakeholders, complicated problems and many aspects of society, which requires the efforts of teachers, schools, parents, the government and even the whole society.
To solve the problem of reducing the burden, we need to start from the inside of education, ask the classroom for efficiency, let the teachers improve their level and let the school strengthen management. Starting with the most basic contents of education and teaching, such as the amount of homework, the amount of class hours and the number of exams, we can improve the teaching level and the comprehensive quality of teachers, improve the learning efficiency of students at school, and then liberate children from after-school homework. At the same time, improve the talent selection system, cultivate a rational talent view and talent view, and realize children's learning for interest and happiness.
Although all this is not easy, we can see that soliciting opinions from the whole society for "reducing the burden on primary school students 10" has given people a bright dawn, and the Third Plenary Session decided to elaborate on deepening the comprehensive reform in the field of education, which also made the public full of hope for solving the problem of reducing the burden.
Once, reducing the burden was regarded as the utopia of education and teaching and the impossible "Peach Blossom Garden". But 20 14, I hope this dream can really come true.
Nowadays, it is urgent and imperative to reduce the burden. As a basic educator, I am looking forward to the implementation of the primary school students' burden reduction plan, and I am also aware of the difficulties in the implementation process. In my opinion, only when families, schools and society work together to solve the problems in the implementation process, reducing the burden will not just sound beautiful.
—— Zhan Mei, a teacher at Yifu School, Minjiang East Road, Deyang City, Sichuan Province
Looking forward to the construction of modern university system
Looking back on 20 13, the construction of modern university system is undoubtedly a bright spot in the field of higher education.
The articles of association of six universities, including China Renmin University, Southeast University, Donghua University, Shanghai International Studies University, Wuhan University of Technology and Huazhong Normal University, were approved, which is a particularly striking step in the construction of modern university system in China.
Through the formulation of the university charter, we have captured the following information: the school management system has been comprehensively stipulated according to law, the basic structure of school management has been clarified, and the formation of the corporate governance structure of the school has been promoted; It defines the organizational framework and operational mechanism of academic power within the school, and clarifies the operational and supervisory mechanism of school autonomy ... and this information allows us to clearly outline the organizational structure and management mechanism of a modern university in our minds.
Building a modern university system with China characteristics is the only way for China University to become a world-class university. To this end, the public is full of expectations: transforming government functions and handling the relationship between government, schools and society; Strengthen the government's overall guidance, macro-layout and quality supervision functions, promote colleges and universities to face the society, run schools independently according to law, implement democratic management, give play to the role of social forces in public governance and evaluation of colleges and universities, and create a good external environment for the development of colleges and universities; Give full play to the role of academic organizations and broaden the channels for teachers and students to participate in democratic management and supervision …