Many parents have not escaped from correcting homework and have been "released" in the new task of recording homework. Since September this year, labor courses have officially become an independent course in primary and secondary schools. The just-passed National Day holiday is also the first long holiday after school labor. Some media reported that some parents said that the school assigned labor during the holidays, and the original intention was good, but some of the homework requirements were "really difficult", and some required parents to shoot and produce videos, and the "volume" became a competition.
Observation
Cooking, washing dishes, gardening...
All kinds of labor and action homework let children get new skills
It is understood that during this long holiday, many primary schools assigned homework to let children cook a dish. Scrambled eggs with tomatoes are a requirement for the lower grades of primary school, while the upper grades of primary school require children to make a special dish. Some schools also list recommended recipes, which are very careful.
In addition to cooking, making dumplings and buns are also on the list. Many parents think that such labor is particularly necessary: "Children cannot only know how to read, these are also basic survival skills."
allows children to learn to sweep the floor, mop the floor, organize clothes, bookshelf, room and other homework, which is the most popular among parents. Especially in boys' rooms, books and clothes were thrown around in a random manner, and parents followed behind their butts all day. Now with this homework, children will take the initiative to clean up the room every day, and mothers are very happy.
In addition, many schools assign homework to let children learn to grow vegetables on the balcony. In order to facilitate children to see the fruits of their labor as soon as possible, the teachers also thoughtfully suggested that children check which vegetables are suitable for autumn sowing, so that they can see the harvest in about a month. A mother said, "I don't know about this problem. She also checked a lot of information with her child. Finally, she chose cherry radish with a growth temperature of about 20 degrees Celsius and a growth period of 30-40 days."
Some schools also require students to learn to nail buttons and repair clothes. A parent posted a circle of friends and showed a video of his child repairing his clothes clumsyly. It looked quite interesting: "In the future, if the clothes are torn, you can leave them to my child to repair them."
A father said that the labor assigned by the school is quite in line with the characteristics of the new era - it is required to learn to use several types of smart appliances. He said that the child also likes this homework. They happened to have smart refrigerator and water heater at home, so he handed over the instructions to the child to study and learn how to use it by himself. The child studied it himself for half an hour and became very skilled in the operation. He was also very interested in teaching his grandparents.
However, some parents said that the school’s original intention of assigning labor and homework was good, but some homework required to find five kinds of grains to take a photo with them, which was really difficult. Such homework felt that it added trouble to parents. The reporter learned that there are indeed many schools that need to provide photos or videos.
lens
Doing homework is like breaking through the level
Parents are "too difficult"
Level 1 - Preparing materials
Hangzhou "Urban Express" reported that during this long holiday, Mr. Li's fifth-grade son's labor and homework was filming a video introducing how to make potato stewed beef . "I bought several servings of potatoes, beef and other seasonings. I first cut potatoes, beef, etc., and made several times, and then asked my son to cut them according to the same method, and I will take pictures."
Level 2 - Shooting
For some parents, labor is not scary, what is scary is shooting videos of the labor process. "It's not difficult to cook, but the difficult thing is to take videos to participate in the evaluation." Mr. Li said that he didn't know much about video shooting and editing. Seeing that other students in the class were all parents, he could only learn and use it himself at the urging of the child's mother. "Cooking a dish, I took a few shots and my son was unwilling to make it. In order to make the camera look good, I spent a lot of thought on the shooting angle and ingredients. I asked people who understand video shooting."
The third level - editing
Mr. Li said that after shooting the video, he also had to download the software to edit the video, set the background music, and give some video effects... From shooting to post-dubbing and subtitles, it took almost a day, just like completing a big project in the unit.
Xiaowen's mother, who is in the fourth grade of elementary school, said that the school also has video check-in homework, which is voluntary.
Xiaowen's mother wanted her child to wash the dishes and shoot a video to upload it. "I didn't expect that everyone in the parent group was very serious, with exquisite background pictures, music, and animation effects. The parents posted it in the group and all liked it. This was so anxious that I hurriedly downloaded an editing software and learned to edit videos by myself. After exploring for half an hour, I didn't know how to do it at all. In the end, a kind-hearted parent sent me the general steps, and I barely completed the video. To be honest, I thought it was ugly by myself, but there was nothing I could do."
asked if
did this assignment deviate from the original intention of the course?
Originally, taking photos and videos was a form for parents to record their children's acquisition of new skills and share their labor results. However, when they fell into reality, they became a burden of "cooking for half an hour and editing for a whole day". They worked hard to brush down-to-earth labor skills onto a layer of sophisticated video filters, which made people wonder: Is this homework evaluating parents' ability to edit videos or their children's hands-on ability? Has it deviated from the original intention and essence of the course? This reflects the public's doubts about whether the labor form assigned by some schools at this stage is greater than the content, and also reflects the difficulties in the exploration of labor education.
Labor is a simple and pure thing. Helping grandparents massage their backs and helping their parents wash dishes, but why is it difficult to become a course? Parents are too busy to deal with it, and even posed for photos to deal with it, and the school’s housework inspection and evaluation have also lost their positive significance. When the new curriculum standards are implemented in education practice, the design of some schools will inevitably be "unaccommodating to the local environment", and how to improve and explore is more important.
Discuss what
labor education should look like?
Starting from the new semester this fall, labor education courses have been launched in all primary and secondary schools. What should labor education look like?
A parent posted: The son of the noodle shop owner took the initiative to help the adults clean up the table, which is the best labor education.
Two days ago, a WeChat official account also discussed this issue -
Let the children water the flowers, which is labor education. Let the children go home and sweep the floor, which is also considered labor education. In the specific implementation, it may be to check in and take photos... The current labor education is too exquisite!
Children learn to cook delicious meals, but they can’t deal with kitchen waste . Children can sweep the floor with brooms, but keep away from the smelly garbage. Children can mop the floor, but they can’t avoid the dark mops.
But isn’t the essence of labor education the spirit of not being afraid of dirty or hardship? Labor education is definitely not as simple as children making some exquisite handicrafts, sweeping clean floors, and making some exquisite meals.
The essence of labor education is whether children have the courage to come forward to take the initiative to clean the sanitary corners in the classroom when they see the sanitary dead corners in the classroom, whether children have the courage to wash it up when they see their peers vomiting, whether they have the courage to pick up sanitary tools to clean the ground. These courage are what labor education really needs.
In fact, the essence of labor is very simple. Children are not afraid of dirt or fatigue, and no longer work to complete their homework.
Quick Comment
The significance of labor education should be outside the camera
Labor class is different from most other subjects. Its focus is not on teaching in class and practice in writing, but on practice and experience in class. This also makes the teaching form and evaluation model of this course different from others. "Labor is the process of creating material and spiritual wealth." In addition to learning knowledge and reaping skills, labor education also needs to temper will and cultivate abilities, and it is also thinking, feeling, and hard work. If this layer is ignored, it will inevitably lead to the alienation of the nature and function of labor. For example, some learning tasks are suitable for recording with cameras, but perhaps the significance of labor education lies just outside the camera, and there is no need to use too much effort and exquisite packaging.
Teaching and educating people, labor is an important part of the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor, and an indispensable and important part of comprehensive education. For labor education, which has not been valued for a period of time, labor classes are just the beginning.How to innovate the mechanism and implement the course systematically and scientifically, parents' complaints and public hot discussions have made this test question truly put in front of the school. But undoubtedly, how schools conduct and evaluate labor education, whether in schools or in families, still needs to be repeatedly considered.
"Human happiness exists in life, and life exists in labor." Labor and life are inseparable. Only by allowing children to root their labor in consciousness and integrate their life, and no longer measure them with traditional homework standards, is the true meaning and long-term value of labor education.
Netizens hotly discussed
@Little boy and fat man: The video homework handed by other children is very exquisite. If your child shoots too simple, your child will become an "alternative".
@Ignore Du Ming: Some people also ask their children to use air fryer to cook. Do I also buy fryer specifically?
@Green back: This is not about educating children, this is about "educating" parents! According to Metropolis Express, Guangming Daily, etc. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ying, photographed by
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