CCTV News:The Ministry of Education held the first press conference of the 2020 Golden Autumn Series on August 27th.

Lv Yugang, Director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education
Lv Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, said that in the prevention and control of the epidemic in COVID-19, comrades on the basic education front, with a high sense of political responsibility and historical mission, carried out an unprecedented and unprecedented large-scale online education practice for 180 million primary and secondary school students, effectively realizing the "suspension of classes without stopping studying", providing high-quality educational guidance services for the majority of children to study at home and making important contributions to winning the war of epidemic prevention and control.
In this process, the majority of primary and secondary school students have also undergone exercise and received a profound patriotic education. On the occasion that the autumn semester is about to start in a comprehensive, normal and safe way, on behalf of the Department of Basic Education, I would like to express my greetings and congratulations to the teachers and students in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens. In order to do a good job in education and teaching in the new semester, the Ministry of Education will guide all localities to focus on the following aspects:
First, fully resume normal education and teaching. Here, we should highlight the "two overall plans". First, we should do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, education and teaching, and restore the normal school education and teaching order on the basis of doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control under normalization in accordance with the principle of "territorial overall plan". The second is to distinguish different grades, different classes and different disciplines, and make overall plans for the school’s teaching. On the basis of accurate analysis of academic conditions, especially in view of the actual situation of students’ study in the spring semester, we should scientifically and reasonably arrange the teaching progress, conscientiously implement the national curriculum plan and curriculum standards, and fully open the national prescribed courses to ensure the quality of education and teaching. Here, it should be particularly emphasized that the initial grade of primary school, that is, freshmen, should adhere to zero-starting teaching in accordance with the requirements of the national curriculum plan and curriculum standards, actively explore the reasonable setting of transitional new activity courses, and pay attention to the connection between young and old, so that freshmen can adapt to school life smoothly. Kindergartens should strictly do a good job in health care, adhere to games as the basic activity, and reasonably arrange children’s daily life. Ordinary senior high schools should actively and steadily implement course selection and shift teaching, and strengthen the curriculum arrangement and various management work of shift teaching.
Second, teach the "first lesson of school" together. First, I hope everyone will watch the program "The First Lesson of School" enthusiastically. The Ministry of Education, together with the Central Propaganda Department, the National Health and Wellness Commission, and the Central Radio and Television General Station, is planning to produce the program "The First Lesson of School Opening" for primary and secondary school students in 2020 with the theme of "popularizing epidemic prevention knowledge and carrying forward the spirit of fighting epidemic", which will be broadcast on time at 8: 00 pm on September 1. The second is to focus on starting school education. After the start of the new semester, all local schools should make full use of the rich special education resources provided by the national network cloud platform for primary and secondary schools, vigorously carry forward the spirit of anti-epidemic and carry out patriotic education in depth in accordance with the requirements of the Notice on Implementing the Work Plan for Key Tasks in the Implementation Outline of Patriotism Education in the New Era issued by the Ministry of Education.
Third, pay close attention to students’ physical and mental health. Primary and secondary schools should continue to strengthen students’ mental health education in a targeted manner, and achieve "four ones": First, give a good special psychological counseling class, make full use of national and local special resources of mental health education in schools, and take psychological lectures, theme class meetings, team activities and other forms to seriously carry out students’ psychological counseling. Especially after the start of school, we should pay close attention to the psychological counseling of students. The second is to conduct a comprehensive heart-to-heart talk. School principals, moral education cadres, class teachers, mental health teachers and subject teachers should be responsible for conducting in-depth heart-to-heart talks with students, fully grasp the mental health status and study life of each student, and do a good job in students’ ideological work. The third is to improve a system for reporting students’ mental health, grasp and report each student’s psychological status in time, strengthen the help and support for students with learning difficulties, help students keep up with the teaching progress, and alleviate their anxiety caused by learning pressure. Fourth, organize a series of campus cultural activities, actively organize culture, sports, art and suitable outdoor activities by creating a warm campus environment, guide students to carry out physical exercise, enhance their physical fitness, strengthen interaction and communication, and promote students to integrate into the collective learning life of the school as soon as possible.
Fourth, do a good job in controlling drop-outs and ensuring education. Controlling dropping out of school is an important task to win the battle against poverty and realize the guarantee of compulsory education. Before and after the start of school, all localities should focus on the special action of compulsory education to stop dropping out of school, protect school and persuade students to return to school, firmly establish the sense of political responsibility of "never relaxing", and at the same time, take various forms to "check", "persuade" with emotion, fulfill their responsibilities to "control", improve quality and empower them to "guarantee", and earnestly ensure that the stock does not rebound and the increment does not occur, so as to ensure that students should do their best.
Fifth, vigorously strengthen online education and teaching. In order to consolidate the achievements of "stopping classes without stopping studying" in the spring semester, further promote the close integration of online and offline education and teaching, promote students’ autonomous learning, share high-quality educational resources in rural areas, and improve the quality of teachers’ classroom teaching. According to the "Four Highs" standard, that is, relying on regions with high education quality, schools with high school level, teachers with high teaching level and technical teams with high professional level, the Ministry of Education has systematically developed more than 4,000 autumn semester curriculum resources covering all grades and disciplines of primary and secondary schools, and organized and selected various high-quality special education resources, which will be broadcast online one after another after the start of school in autumn for free use by all localities.
Sixth, close cooperation between home and school to educate people. The work of "stopping classes and not stopping studying" in the spring semester has made primary and secondary schools, kindergartens and parents fully realize the extreme importance of home-school cooperation in educating people. After the start of the new semester, the majority of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens should focus on three aspects in keeping close contact with their families and strengthening family education guidance: first, carry out in-depth home visits, organize teachers to fully understand the study and life situation and physical and mental condition of students’ holidays from their parents in various ways, and listen to their opinions and suggestions. The second is to hold a parent-teacher conference seriously, comprehensively introduce the relevant work plan of the school’s autumn semester education and teaching, guide parents to understand, support and cooperate with the school’s work, and jointly make arrangements for students’ study and life in the new semester. The third is to strengthen the pertinence of family education guidance, and take the initiative to answer questions about typical problems that plague parents, such as how to communicate with adolescent children, how to cultivate children’s good study and living habits, and how to effectively control the use of electronic products, so as to help parents master the correct methods, establish a scientific educational concept, fulfill their family education responsibilities and build a good parent-child relationship. In order to help do a good job in family education guidance, the Ministry of Education organized experts to develop a Family Education Guidance Manual, including a school manual and a parent manual, for reference by schools and parents everywhere.
Seventh, actively deepen the reform of education and teaching. At present, basic education has entered a new stage of comprehensively improving the quality of educating people. Schools around the country should conscientiously implement the spirit of the three important documents on preschool education, compulsory education and ordinary senior high school education issued by the central government since the National Education Conference, comprehensively implement the deployment of the National Basic Education Work Conference, and effectively shift the focus of work to strengthening connotation construction, deepening teaching reform and improving the quality of education. The Ministry of Education will guide all localities to popularize and apply national excellent teaching achievements in basic education, conscientiously implement new courses and new textbooks, strengthen the guidance on the construction of teaching reform demonstration areas and teaching reform work, strengthen labor education and practical education, promote the connection between young and old science, improve the quality evaluation system of basic education, fully stimulate the vitality of running schools in primary and secondary schools, and promote the overall improvement of the quality of basic education.
Eighth, create a good educational atmosphere. It is the common responsibility of the whole society to ensure the healthy growth of teenagers. In the autumn semester, we should do a good job in two aspects according to the relevant arrangements: First, purify the growth environment of teenagers. Recently, the Ministry of Education and the relevant departments of the central government jointly deployed a special action to control the network environment, focusing on rectifying the problems such as bad online social behavior, vulgar and harmful information and addiction to online games that affect the healthy growth of minors, cleaning up illegal and harmful information on social online class platforms, and purifying the network environment for the healthy growth of teenagers. In addition, it is necessary to standardize the recommended use of extracurricular reading books for primary and secondary school students and resolutely prevent harmful books from entering the campus. The second is to continue to standardize the management of off-campus training institutions. All localities should guide training institutions to conscientiously implement the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, and can not relax at all. According to the Negative List of Over-standard and Advanced Training in Six Subjects of Compulsory Education, we will seriously investigate and deal with over-standard and advanced training behaviors, and effectively reduce students’ excessive extracurricular burden. Actively promote the use of "primary and secondary school students’ off-campus training service contract (model text)", guide training institutions to standardize their operations, effectively solve disputes over fees and refunds, and promote the standardized development of training institutions.