One of the concerns is that "physical education and health" accounts for10%-1%of the total class hours, surpassing foreign languages to become the third largest subject in primary and junior high schools.
Physical Education and Health Curriculum Standard for Compulsory Education (2022 Edition) says:
For a long time, English, as one of the three major subjects, has been a course that China students attach great importance to. As a non-English speaking country, China attaches great importance to English learning. Many students spend too much time and energy learning this language and even give up outdoor activities in order not to fall behind others in their grades.
It is inconceivable to regard a foreign language as one of the important criteria for evaluating children's learning ability in China. In many countries, learning a foreign language is regarded as a child's interest, which not only does not bring learning pressure to children, but also allows children to actively learn such a language.
Although this curriculum reform has not lowered English by one grade as expected by ordinary people, it is the beginning of English curriculum adjustment. We know that the beginning is the most difficult part of any change. Now we can start to improve the class hours of other courses except English, which shows that the national education department is aware of the seriousness of the problem and believes that English subjects will continue to be adjusted in the future.
Then why adjust "physical education and health" to the third place instead of other subjects?
First of all, let's take a look at the significance of the topic "exercise and health".
"Sports and health" is an important way to realize the all-round development of children and adolescents, and it is of great practical and long-term significance to promote students to actively participate in sports, develop a healthy lifestyle, improve their personality, improve the overall quality of the people, promote the progress of social civilization, build a healthy China and a sports power, and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In other words, Physical Education and Health teaches students how to do physical exercise, how to develop a healthy lifestyle, how to keep healthy and how to have excellent personality.
Secondly, let's look at the physical quality of children and adolescents in China.
Take a closer look at the children in our country now. Are they healthy? The answer is no, not everyone's physical fitness is bad, but the physical fitness of most children is worse from generation to generation. We can see many news reports, for example, more and more students fall down due to heatstroke in military training classes; For example, the obesity rate of students is getting higher and higher; For example, children from China, Japan and South Korea participated in activities, and the physical fitness of the other two children was significantly higher than that of China. If we don't change the educational standards of our country, increase the teaching of physical exercise for children and adolescents, and let them do more outdoor activities, it is hard to imagine the physical quality of children and adolescents in our country in the future!
Finally, increasing children's extracurricular activities is conducive to protecting their eyesight.
In recent years, the country has recognized the seriousness of the vision problems of children and adolescents in China. At present, children and adolescents in this area are screened every year, and the results of annual screening are very bad. Among school-age children and adolescents in China, vision problems are very serious, and even many parents of students don't know that their children have vision problems. If you want to protect your eyesight as much as possible in the study under high pressure, appropriate and sufficient outdoor activities are essential, so you must increase the time for physical exercise for children and adolescents.
To sum up, in this major reform, the subject of "Physical Education and Health" will be upgraded to the third major in compulsory education, which shows that the decision of the education department is well thought out and wise.
How is "physical education and health" stipulated in the new curriculum reform?
This new curriculum reform pays attention to the connection between children and young children, and the first and second grades of primary school pay attention to activities, games and life. It is clearly required to help more children build up their interest in sports and enhance their participation in sports.
Among them, in terms of special sports skills, there are six categories: ball games, track and field sports, gymnastics, water or ice sports, China traditional sports and emerging sports, and each category contains several sports.
According to the definition of the new curriculum standard, track and field sports can be divided into three categories: running (such as sprint, middle and long distance running, hurdle running, relay running, etc. ), jumping (such as high jump, long jump, etc. ) and throwing (such as shot put, solid ball throwing, softball throwing, etc. );
Gymnastics can be divided into two categories: one is technical and instrumental gymnastics (such as support jumping, technical sports, low horizontal bar sports, etc.). ), and the other is rhythmic gymnastics (such as rhythmic gymnastics, aerobics, etc. );
Water sports can be divided into breaststroke, freestyle, backstroke and butterfly.
Ice and snow sports can be divided into speed skating, alpine skiing and ice hockey.
Traditional sports in China can be divided into martial arts (such as Changquan, Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, Chinese wrestling, Tai Ji Chuan, archery and crossbow shooting). ) and other traditional ethnic and folk sports (such as dragon dance, lion dance, roller coaster ride, bamboo pole jumping, dragon boat race, swinging, fireworks grabbing, pearl ball, shuttlecock and pier ball, etc. ).
Emerging sports can be divided into survival adventure projects (such as orienteering, field survival, hiking, mountaineering, etc.). ) and fashionable sports events (such as figure skipping, skateboarding, ultimate frisbee, taekwondo, unicycle, bmx, darts, etc. ).
It can be seen that the sports included in the subject of Physical Education and Health basically include all kinds of sports that children and adolescents like in their current lives, which is of great help to increase students' interest and hobbies in physical education.
The new curriculum reform promotes the subject of "Physical Education and Health" to the position of the third main subject, which formally reflects the state's attention to the physical health of children and adolescents, improves their physical quality and promotes their all-round development.
Since "physical education and health" has become the third main subject, it will inevitably account for a relatively high proportion in the subsequent entrance examination, which will inevitably increase the attention of parents and students, and will inevitably increase the daily exercise time of students, which will obviously help students' physical health and academic performance.