How to get out of the misconception of some "fancy" homework receiving "negative reviews" after class?
2024-09-24
After class homework, how to break out of the mold and get out of the trap. After the start of the new semester, many schools and parents have "shared" their children's homework: learning to make a dish, conducting scientific experiments independently, practicing sports every day, recording growth during study tours... Various practical and experiential creative homework, combining education with entertainment, full of fun, and making students brainstorm, hands-on, and "moved". But some parents have also reported that some "fancy" homework focuses more on form than content, exceeding students' abilities, increasing parents' burden, and even giving rise to "homework businesses" such as "drawing and copying newspapers" and "filming videos". Homework is an extension of classroom education and a crucial part of students' learning process. How can we scientifically grasp principles and scales, break out of the trap of "writing papers and doing exercises", and also get rid of the misconception of "innovating for the sake of innovation", and assign students truly "heartfelt" homework? Say goodbye to mechanical copying, gain more from "fancy homework". "How do you view" fancy homework "?" Recently, reporters conducted a questionnaire survey on the official Weibo, WeChat, and client of Guangming Daily, and many students and parents expressed their opinions freely. Expanding thinking and flexible forms are more interesting A second year junior high school student from Xinjiang left a message. A parent from Guizhou also said: "Children know how to stir fry eggs and Fried Rice and how to make sweet wine. It's very important for parents to guide the whole process. In fact, it doesn't take much time. As long as they are willing to accompany, the education effect is very good." The Chinese teacher arranged the "cooking" task, the English teacher arranged art homework, and the math teacher taught you to do manual work... In Quanzhou, Fujian Province, many primary and secondary schools have "fancy" homework, which makes students say "eye opening". In the third unit of the second grade textbook, "Chinese Cuisine," there is a mention of cooking methods such as stir frying, grilling, frying, steaming, deep frying, and boiling. The teacher assigned us an assignment: to learn how to make a local delicacy during the summer vacation A student from Jianlongting Experimental Primary School in Fengze District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province told reporters that the English homework is also very interesting, which is to draw a beautiful handwritten small newspaper with the theme of "My summer holiday". With the strong spring breeze of science education, many schools in Qingdao, Shandong have incorporated scientific elements into their assignments in subjects such as Chinese and mathematics, creating characteristic assignments that integrate "science+" across disciplines. I invented a pair of slippers that can illuminate! Lightly touch the switch with your foot to activate the lighting device, so that when you wake up at night, you can see the indoor environment clearly without disturbing others' rest, killing two birds with one stone Around the theme of "Scientific Spirit and Growth", Yu Zhaoxin, a fifth grade student at Qingdao Sifang Experimental Primary School, excellently completed his science homework and felt a sense of achievement. Literacy oriented homework not only serves as a preview of new knowledge and consolidation of known knowledge for students, but more importantly, it cultivates their core competencies Li Yong, director of the Institute of Moral Education and Educational Psychology at Tianjin Academy of Education Sciences, believes that many schools have shifted from focusing on subject assignments to emphasizing students' social practice and labor education. They have also shifted from simply consolidating learned knowledge to shaping students' daily habits, social emotions, learning abilities, etc., which is more in line with the current needs of talent cultivation. 'Fancy homework' cannot be rushed, let alone exceed students' abilities. In the survey, some parents have questioned the continuous' new 'homework. Some parents roast that "some homework only takes the form rather than 'wandering', which makes students' behave ', causing a lot of burden, but not much educational effect". Some people believe that "some 'fancy' homework is just for participating in various competitions or making exhibition boards, to compete for honor and save face for the school." Encouraging students to exercise their hands-on ability and expand their comprehensive quality through creative homework, why does this good starting point attract some 'negative reviews'? The interview found that the main reasons are concentrated in three points. One reason is that there are too many practical assignments in some schools, and there is no coordinated effort to educate students among various subjects. Whenever there is a small holiday, practical assignments are the three starting points. During winter and summer vacations, I have to make four or five handwritten newspapers alone, not to mention other tasks such as visiting museums and making scientific presentations Beijing parent Liu Jia is very helpless. "If you can't finish it by yourself, you have to buy it online. There are both finished and semi-finished products, and you can choose. Nowadays, interdisciplinary project-based learning is being promoted, why are homework still assigned separately and not forming a cohesive force?" Secondly, some homework is too difficult and exceeds the normal ability level of students at a certain stage. Whose homework is it Just last summer, Li Yu, a parent in Kunming, spent many days helping her children draw a mind map: "When she just entered the second grade of primary school, she had to review the math course of last semester in the form of a mind map, requiring that 'all key knowledge points should be covered, with pictures and texts, beautiful design, and her own understanding and thinking'. The child did not understand the internal logic of the mind map at all. Basically, I was working on it, and he could not get in touch with it, but symbolically drew some decorative patterns." Many respondents roast to reporters about the "wonderful homework" they encountered: some required second grade students to write online literacy proposals, and "find cases to analyze problems, and propose solutions"; Some require kindergarten children to do video presentations and share their holiday experiences... "How could there be so many children? In the end, only parents can handle it, and the homework 'including children' is zero. The third issue is that some homework assessments and evaluations are single, or they are "just handed over" or prioritize evaluation over sharing, without forming positive feedback. After carefully crafting a handwritten report with her child, Shanghai parent Li Shuhan would ask her child every day if the teacher had commented on the homework, but the answer she received was always' no '. She felt a bit regretful: "It seems like homework is just for completing tasks, and once it's done, everything will be fine. At most, they choose a few well done ones to stick on the display wall. But children don't understand what the teacher's intention is for assigning homework, nor do they know whether they did well or not, and what the reason is." "Homework without feedback is like blind sailing, and students have difficulty knowing whether they have deviated from the course or adjusting their course in time to reach the final destination." Li Yong observed that in order to promote students to strengthen physical exercise, many schools assign homework requiring daily recording of exercise methods and time: "Although this is a good idea, it is difficult to evaluate the real effect, because some students may handle it for various reasons. Such homework not only fails to achieve the expected goals, but may also breed laziness and deceptive behavior, increasing the burden on parents Good homework should be "interesting and competent, capable of improvement and transfer, and able to improve with feedback". "Some teachers do not start from reality, do not consider the growth characteristics and conditions of students, and excessively pursue fancy and fashionable forms, making homework a task, which may actually lead to rebellious psychology." Several experts pointed out that the "Notice on Strengthening Homework Management in Compulsory Education Schools" issued in 2021 has clearly stated the need to resolutely correct prominent problems such as excessive quantity, poor quality, and distorted functions in school homework, and has pointed out the direction for homework reform. In this survey, many parents also put forward suggestions such as "do not assign subjects, integrate and coordinate", "increase flexibility, teachers can provide direction", "pay attention to homework evaluation, and do not just hand it in". Zhang Shuai, a senior teacher of the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, believes that before designing and assigning assignments, one must first determine the objectives of assignments: "Whether it is to detect, consolidate, expand and extend, whether it is traditional reading and writing training or practical assignments in various forms, it should serve the overall learning objectives. Especially in the context of unit teaching design, the determination of assignment objectives should be based on the unit teaching objectives, based on the analysis of learning conditions, clarify the learning content and level requirements, and highlight the key points and difficulties in the assignments; at the same time, from the perspective of the overall unit, the assignments should be designed as a whole, arranged in advance, to help students have a clear understanding of and independent arrangement of unit assignments." Li Yong believes that while designing assignments, "Three have three abilities" Principle: Firstly, before assigning homework, grasp the principle of 'making students interesting and competent'. In the traditional mode, some students have to complete homework only out of the mentality of 'not completing homework will be criticized', while the guidance of literacy emphasizes the fun design of homework content and form to make students feel happy. In addition, it is advocated to design layered homework so that students with different learning levels can have homework that suits their own difficulty, and even design classified homework so that different students can freely choose the homework content and methods they are interested in, thereby enhancing their sense of competence and confidence in completing homework. Secondly, in homework, students can improve and transfer. By completing challenging and inspiring tasks, students can either elevate their simple understanding to profound thinking, aggregate their scattered knowledge into a knowledge network, transfer textbook knowledge to real-life practice, or transfer single subject knowledge to interdisciplinary fields, achieving the transformation of teachers' roles from knowledge transmitters to facilitators of meaning construction. The third is to provide students with feedback and opportunities for improvement after homework. Some teachers only focus on assigning homework without correcting or providing feedback, which can lead to the homework becoming a mere formality over time The evaluation method is crucial Zhang Shuai also holds the same view: "When designing homework, appropriate feedback and guidance methods should be designed for different types and difficulty levels of homework, in order to consolidate what has been learned through homework and promote student development. Especially for open-ended and practical homework, attention should be paid not only to the results, such as the content quality and presentation form of the learning work, but also to the process, such as participation in scheme planning, material collection, creative conception, and other aspects