Ten years of cultivating people, general high school education has added a new landscape
Half month talk reporter Ke Gaoyang
"It is the sailing special course in high school that has stimulated my interest in the sailing industry." 4 years ago, Gao Ting, who graduated from Beicai High School affiliated to Shanghai Maritime University, was admitted to his favorite Shanghai Maritime University . After graduating from university, she chose to engage in ship safety management.
Education reform, including specialized courses, has become a new landscape for the development of ordinary high schools. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, as an important part of the national education system, my country's general high school education has focused on improving policy guarantees, expanding educational resources, and improving the quality of education, and the overall school management level has reached a new level.
is more popular, and the school hardware and software is double-improved.
The brand new high-standard plastic sports field replaces the seriously worn cement basketball court, and the student dormitory building with mottled exterior walls has been renovated... In the office of Jia Zhennan, the principal of No. 1 Middle School of Sunan Yugu Autonomous County, Gansu Province, an album that has been taken since 2012 records the development and changes of the school. Over the past 10 years, the local government has invested more than 40 million yuan, and the school’s faculty and education quality have been continuously improved, and it has been successfully selected as the “Special Experimental School of Ordinary High Schools” in Gansu Province.
The changes of Sunan No. 1 Middle School are a microcosm of the rapid development of my country's general high school education. Over the past 10 years, the country has continuously implemented the general high school renovation plan and the construction project of ordinary high schools in counties with weak educational foundations. The central government has invested a total of 71.186 billion yuan, driving local governments at all levels to further increase investment in school construction and significantly improve school operating conditions.
High school students play basketball in their spare time. Photo by Ji Chunpeng
"Of course, the popularity of the central and western regions has increased the most." Lu Yugang, Director of the Basic Education Department of the Ministry of Education, introduced. For example, Yunnan Province focuses on 年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年年As of 2021, the total number of general high schools in the country reached 14,600, with 26.0503 million students. The gross enrollment rate of high school education has further increased to 91.4%, an increase of 6.4 percentage points from 2012, providing more students of appropriate age with the opportunity to receive general high school education.
is synchronized with hardware improvement, and the quality of faculty is also improved. Over the past 10 years, the number of full-time teachers in ordinary high schools has increased from 1.595 million to 2.0283 million, effectively alleviating the teacher tensions faced by implementing the comprehensive reform of the college entrance examination. The teacher's academic qualification structure has been continuously optimized, and the proportion of teachers with master's degree or above has increased from 5% to 12.4%, an increase of nearly 1.5 times.
is more balanced, promoting the comprehensive development of students
In the past two years, Zhao Chenhao, a high school student who participated in Chongqing's "Eagle Plan", mostly went to university laboratories on weekends, doing experiments and conducting research under the guidance of a doctoral supervisor... This year's college entrance examination, he was admitted to Sichuan University and continued his favorite scientific research career. In the past 10 years since the implementation of the "Eagle Plan" for cultivating innovative talents for ordinary high school students, it has trained more than 3,000 students, allowing the "seeds" that love scientific research and innovation to sprout in the hearts of more young people.
10 years, general high school education has been conducting a profound exploration in promoting the comprehensive and personalized development of students. All localities continue to strengthen the construction of the general high school curriculum system, enrich the school's elective courses and cultivate the school's advantageous disciplines, strive to create school-run characteristics, promote the school's shift from stratified development to classified development, and better meet students' diversified learning needs.
2022 Beijing High School Intercollegiate League Photo by Wu Zhuang
In Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, the local area proposed to run high-quality high schools, subject specialty high schools, and brand vocational high schools in layers.As a second-class high school, Ningcheng County Balihan Middle School has vigorously developed diversified courses such as sports and art. In the past three years, nearly 200 students have been admitted to sports and art universities. While broadening students' paths to further study, they also promote students' comprehensive and personalized development.
Judging from the reality of urban and rural education development, the weak links and difficulties in improving the quality of high school education are in county high schools. At the end of 2021, the Ministry of Education and nine other departments issued the "Action Plan for the Development and Improvement of County General High Schools in the 14th Five-Year Plan". At present, efforts to "revitalize county centers" are being implemented one after another.
In the "dual teacher classroom" of Chongqing Fengjie Middle School, students took the same class with , Chongqing No. 8 Middle School students through the screen, sharing high-quality teaching resources.
Starting this fall, the Ministry of Education has also launched a county-level custody assistance project for the county-level colleges and universities under the ministry, and Fudan University will provide assistance and support to Fengjie Middle School in teaching management, teaching and research guidance, teacher training, etc.
is more scientific, and the examination evaluation reform is constantly improving
10, focusing on realizing scientific talent selection and promoting educational equity, the examination and enrollment system of ordinary high schools has been continuously improved.
As one of the first batch of pilot provinces and cities for college entrance examination reform, Shanghai has comprehensively leveraged the reform of high school education methods through college entrance examination reform and evaluation reform. The full opening of career courses and career planning guidance services in high schools also started from this.
In Shanghai Shixi Middle School , each freshman is equipped with a "career mentor" when registering, guiding students to discover their interests in a certain professional field, and helping students discover their career direction through academic forums, academic inquiry days, academic festivals, etc.
"New College Entrance Examination, New Evaluation" is driving the comprehensive development of high school students. Faced with the new "3+1+2" college entrance examination model, Jiangsu Xishan High School explores the course selection and class selection model of " administrative class is in the same place as the teaching class, the subject selection group class is parallel to the course selection and class selection, and the offline course selection and online class selection complement each other". It can easily realize the combination of 12 models, and fully meet the students' selection needs without additional management costs.
Xishan High School Principal Tang Jiangpeng said that in recent years, the career intention of school graduates has changed significantly. clinical medicine has increased from only about 3% at school to 14% at graduation, and engineering technology has increased from less than 15% to more than 42%.
"Exam evaluation reform is a powerful driving force for the development of ordinary high schools." Beijing Normal University China Education Policy Research Institute Executive Dean Zhang Zhiyong believes that under a series of institutional designs, my country's general high school education has entered a "golden period" of synchronous implementation and coordinated promotion of new college entrance examinations, new curriculums, new textbook reforms and quality evaluation reforms.
(published in " Half Monthly Talk about " 2022 Issue 19)
Source: Xinhua News Agency
