Education and training institutions are shrinking, schools delay services, teachers improve quality and efficiency, and parents and students are constantly changing. However, where do the teachers of education and training institutions go in the turmoil this year?

has experienced the storm of the first anniversary of " double reduction ". Education departments in various places have successively released "double reduction" report cards, and have achieved phased results in the governance and rectification of illegal education and training. Education and training institutions are shrinking, schools delay services, teachers improve quality and efficiency, and parents and students are constantly changing. However, where do the teachers of education and training institutions go in the turmoil this year? "When Dong Yuhui and others transformed into goods and received high salaries, no one knew about them." When Dong Yuhui and others transformed into goods-producing anchors became popular, what kind of struggles and choices did those unemployed people in the education and training industry experience?

01 was forced to return to the public school to take the exam, but regarded Dong Yuhui as an idol

When he saw a promotional advertisement in a middle school in Beijing saying that "the former New Oriental College Entrance Examination Tutoring Team joined our school together", Wang Zhe, a Beijing girl born in the 1990s, was mixed with emotion. As time goes by, my former colleagues are now separated by one. Back then, the " Haidian Huangzhuang " she worked in was as glorious as she is now, and there is infinite crisis behind the high development.

As Chen Xiangdong recalled, as early as 2019, a large amount of capital poured into online education. For a time, various companies conquered cities and land, street signs, light boxes, elevators and even the Spring Festival Gala, and education and training advertisements were everywhere. At that time, everything was wrong.

Wang Zhe experienced the "double reduction" and lay down after losing his job. Now, as a "contract teacher", he teaches in a public school in , Haidian District, . According to the family's arrangement, she will take the teacher examination and settle down in this school in the future. However, as the "gold medal teacher" and "mathematics goddess" of the disbanded fundamental education training team, Wang Zhe watched as some colleagues from his hometown who had no choice but to end the Beijing migration, and to stabilize the establishment of his hometown. Some went to vocational high schools, technical schools and other vocational education ; and there were also Beijing children like her who were not too poor at home, who "lived their money" and enjoyed their old capital and enjoyed their short-term financial freedom.

Compared with many colleagues who were worried after layoffs, Wang Zhe admitted that he was lucky. After the "double reduction", her wonderful resume and youthful and beautiful appearance were quickly favored by several private international schools with higher incomes. However, those schools were too far away from home, not in Shunyi, just in Changping , commuting for 4 hours a day; she didn't want to rent a house or live in a collective dormitory near the school like a foreign teacher, and it was inevitable that she gave up going to an international school.

Now, Wang Zhe, who teaches in Haidian old public school, is a lucky person who has "get ashore" in the eyes of countless people who are "swimming and struggling". Although there is no organization for the time being, the platform is reliable and there is no need to worry about unemployment anymore. "The life where you can see the head at this glance is not what I want, and it is even going backwards!" Wang Zhe said helplessly.

She recalled that back then, she faced three choices when she first graduated from Beijing Normal University.

When Wang Zhe first graduated from university, she entered a public junior high school. "Low money and more life" was her first feeling. She taught several classes at the same time, with dozens of children in one class, and the workload of correcting homework and exam papers was high. The next year, she switched to a private international school. This school has doubled its income, but its care, care for students, bilingual teaching, and curriculum innovation are all "too much teachers". Finally, she joined a well-known education and training institution in Huangzhuang, Haidian. Relatively speaking, this job was free and her income doubled. Fashionable sports shoes, big-name bags, high-end skin care products, and new cars have been achieved in the past few years. For her, she has experienced all three forms of teachers in compulsory education, but the work rhythm and income cost-effectiveness of education and training institutions are the most recognized by her.

Nowadays, although Wang Zhe has not yet obtained the establishment, he is quite popular among children. Compared with the teachers in public schools, she has beautiful and fashionable appearance and has developed a good personal charm in the education and training institution. But when Wang Zhe thought of her forcing her to take the exam as soon as possible and teach for the rest of her life, she felt infinitely "unrestless".On the one hand, she must obey, after all, her family has used a lot of connections for her work; on the other hand, seeing that Dong Yuhui and others have frequently spoken in the live broadcast room, becoming a new internet celebrity, and are booming, she became more and more envious, and even thought she could do it. Douyin , self-media, short videos, sales, Internet celebrities, each of them is full of temptation to her. Wang Zhe smiled bitterly and said, "Dong Yuhui has become my idol now."

02 Almost started a tutoring class, but struggled to return to the end of the universe to take the exam for compilation

Compared with the "unsatisfaction" of Beijing girl Wang Zhe, Li Shu, a young teacher in the third-tier city of , in the south of , she decided early that her hometown system would be her best way out. As soon as she graduated from university, Li Shu tried to take the exam. It was the first two years after the "double reduction". While she accumulated experience in substitute classes in public schools, she also earned extra money in off-campus tutoring institutions. Substitute teachers like her who have a good classroom atmosphere and can get along well with their students are very popular in school. Small cities have shortages of teachers and fewer staffing. The school has always recruited substitute teachers as a supplement to teachers, but substitute teachers can only get a lower basic salary, and bonuses and benefits are not available to them.

Therefore, going to off-campus tutoring institutions to take tutoring has become the first choice for a large number of substitute teachers. They are not bound by the system and can make money by making tutoring openly. At that time, Li Shu not only worked part-time outside the school, but also took the students privately after school and tutored homework. Due to her considerable income, she even planned to start a tutoring institution alone. However, everything came to an abrupt end when the "double reduction" came. A large number of subject training institutions have been "dissuaded from retirement", and full-time "teaching and training" teachers have been unemployed one after another. "Making extra money by making up for classes" Before "double reduction", schools and society turned a blind eye to each other; after "double reduction", the behavior of making up for classes was strictly governed and began to move to "underground".

In the "double reduction" storm, revenue plummeted. When he heard that private schools had higher wages, Li Shu tried to submit a few resumes and was eventually hired by an old local private school. The educational reform trend brought about by

and the "double reduction" of not only made teachers like Li Shu who had just entered this field at a loss, but many old teachers also felt the stones crossing the river. In one hour of tutoring after class, children usually complete their homework at school, but many parents are still accustomed to the concept of "homework" to increase the cost of their children.

Li Shu discovered that parents are divided into several factions. The first is the "laying class", and the teacher will let the child play without assigning it; the second is the "internal class", and although the school does not have any rigid requirements, various homework will be prepared for the child. Among them, should children be given targeted supplementary exercises, or should they blindly "blindly"? This actually tests parents' discernment ability.

In the first and second grades of Li Shu, the policy stipulates that no writing assignments can be assigned. Before this, teachers could find copies of questions online, or set questions by themselves, and parents copied the questions; now, "let children answer the following questions verbally" has become a tacit unspoken rule for everyone to understand. "The first and second grades are the time to lay the foundation and develop habits. It is impossible to let the child do nothing," said Li Shu.

Because of his experience in public schools, Li Shu seemed very calm in teaching in private schools and was also recognized by leaders and colleagues. However, "tired heart" is also her daily life. Under the "double reduction", the tasks of teachers and students have been aggravated. Private schools also need to speak out with their grades, so there are endless tactics and verbal assignments. If paper-based tests cannot be conducted, the school will take the exam secretly. Compared with the solid teaching and research of public schools, Li Shu believes that the private school he is in does not spend much effort on students' homework optimization, and cannot allow children to learn efficiently point-to-point, consciously, and instead falls into more serious and blind intra-volume .

In addition to disagreeing with the school's teaching model, Li Shu also mentioned the school's management issues."On call", "Call around and drink", deprivation of teachers' time, strict campus environment management, and the "lack of protection" of teachers under the parents' "party-level mentality" all made Li Shu feel anxious. Insomnia , Hair loss has been following her like a shadow this year, bothering her.

In addition, due to the "civilian-to-public" trend, this education group has closed several branches in succession, and the salary has decreased. Many teachers choose to leave, with a large turnover and high pressure, and for a while, people were panic. Many teachers believe that as the number of private schools decreases, they will sooner or later return to the system, so it is better to make plans earlier.

Li Shu believes that is in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen or provincial capitals. Private schools can become famous schools, and their teaching and research level and student quality are relatively guaranteed, but small cities are still the king of public office.

Teaching for only one year, Li Shu chose to leave. Recalling her time as a substitute teacher in a public school, she decided to return to the system. So I started the road to the editorial exam, "After going around, I still want to go back to the end of the universe - within the system."

03 "Invisible Rich" fell into the working class. Is it because of a bad mentality or too few opportunities? Before the "double reduction", the education and training industry attracted a large number of young teachers and fresh graduates of because of its generous treatment and attractive benefits. From traditional offline training classes to online education boosted by the epidemic, the education and training industry is on a fast lane powered by "intra-volume" and "anxiety". High motivation, more work and more gain, and desire for new forces. At the time when the education and training industry is in full swing, many excellent teachers are writing the myth of annual salary of hundreds of thousands or even millions. After the "double reduction" of

, the full-time teaching and training teachers experienced the dilemma of layoffs, unemployment and career change. Pengpai News article "Sorry, we don't want it from the education and training industry" shows the endless lonely back of the education and training people at the beginning of the "double reduction", the pain of industry transformation and disorderly prosperity ended.

On the online platform, unemployed education and training continue to share their experience of finding another way out. Some have already "landed" civil servants, public institutions, and public teachers; some have entered private schools or worked as one-on-one teaching; some have completely changed careers and no longer engaged in teaching; some have not found a stable career path so far and are on the verge of "drowning"...

Why is the transformation so difficult? From the perspective of the education and training people themselves, they originally had a lot of salary and flexible time, especially graduates had a high starting salary, but after changing careers, many people found it difficult to accept relatively ordinary jobs. In addition, although many institution teachers want to transfer to private schools that are closer to their original work, they still face many difficulties.

Dingsi Talent Recruitment Director believes that from the perspective of HR recruitment, First, the purpose of teaching and training is to pursue short-term results, and the focus is on giving points rather than the comprehensive development of students. The broadness of ideas and the flexibility of teaching methods are insufficient. Take some international schools as an example. They still prefer teachers who have teaching experience in schools, or returnee teachers who are more international in terms of vision and thinking mode. Even if the teaching and training teachers enter the school, they may need to start from teaching assistants to comprehensively understand students and learn about teaching theory , teaching methods and other related knowledge.

Secondly, the education and training have always been aimed at the majority of parents who are seeking tutoring resources, and are in a relatively strong position in the supply and demand relationship. Although there is a requirement for the renewal rate and needs to speak by teaching strength, generally lacks service awareness. If you cross the industry to a role such as a private school, you need to adjust it in time psychologically.

In fact, after the "double reduction", due to the shadow of the "five-five diversion" of general vocational colleges, the screening mechanism remains unchanged, and the make-up lessons still exist, but it has become more hidden. Some unemployed people in education and training continue to lurk, and their fate is even more confusing.In the "double reduction report card" for rectifying illegal education and training announced by local education departments, cases of underground tutoring and tutoring have been frequently reported by various media.

Conclusion

has been opened from the curtain of "double reduction". Under a series of "combination punches" of educational reform policies, education and training institutions in many regions have been "destroyed". Behind the collapse of an industry is the huge crowd of people falling into the confusion and choice of "life turn". Under the baton of the college entrance examination, scores are still the kingly way. Educational and training institutions that focus on "scores" are undergoing difficulties in transformation, and educational equity is still a long way to go. But if we can stick to the original educational aspiration that helps children develop, we will still have infinite vitality in teaching and training, and we can still continue to shine on the road of "educating people" and "cultivating heart".

Author | Ao Zhumei

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