Wang Dengfeng said that the reform of school sports in China requires the whole society to recognize the carrying function of school sports.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 28 (reporter Ma Bangjie, Gao Peng) Wang Dengfeng, director of the Department of Sports Health and art education of the Ministry of Education, is known in the industry for his clear and agile thinking and profound observation of problems. Recently, when he was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency, he used three idioms to describe the sports reform of Chinese schools that had been put on the agenda: changing customs, changing the world for another day, and becoming a city of unity. He said that Chinese school physical education is ushering in “unprecedented revolutionary changes”.
Changing Customs
Wang Dengfeng said that the national education conference held in last September called for “establishing the education concept of health first, opening up physical education classes to help students enjoy fun in physical exercise, strengthen physical fitness, improve personality and temper will.” The layout of the whole school physical education pointed out the direction and defined the task.
Wang Dengfeng believes that “enjoying fun, strengthening physical fitness, perfecting personality and tempering will” are the four-in-one goals of school physical education, and also stipulate the contents of school physical education, it is to teach sports skills, practice diligently and compete regularly. He said: “This needs to form a concept. If you can’t teach students’ sports skills in physical education, it is not physical education. If there is no extracurricular training, no extracurricular homework or homework, it is not a real PE class either.”
He said: “Our orientation of school sports has never been so clear. Before, the orientation of school physical education was basically to ensure students’ physical health. Ensuring physical health means that students do not necessarily have sports skills. Students do not have to participate in competitions, as long as they have daily activities, running, doing exercises and walking, as long as they can ensure physical health. There is no need for sports skills or competition, and the value of school sports is not reflected in the four-in-one.”
Wang Dengfeng believes that the development of school sports in China now carries six aspects: first, the development of the body should recognize its own body through sports and how to be reasonable, use your body effectively; Second, the development of social intercourse should have socialized communication and function. You cooperate with coaches, teams, opponents and teammates, which is the development of socialization; third, the development of morality, you need to know what is right and what is wrong, you need to internalize the rules into your behavior, what you have learned in the competition field, it should be naturally extended to your real life; Fourth, the development of spirit is the sublimation of personal ideology and morality; Fifth, the development of intelligence, many scientific studies have proved that, the child can’t reach a certain amount of exercise, and his nervous system is not well developed. Children take part in more physical exercises, It will stimulate his enthusiasm for learning, arouse his enthusiasm, form good living habits, promote the improvement of cultural class performance, temper his will and improve his personality; Sixth, the development of culture, through sports communication, children may have direct communication and confrontation with children of different cultures in the future, so they can learn more about other cultures.
He said: “Sports can really turn a child who knows nothing into a qualified citizen who meets the requirements of all aspects of society.”
Wang Dengfeng said that the reform of school sports in China requires the whole society to recognize the carrying function of school sports.
“Related to this, there needs to be another change of customs, that is, the relationship between school sports and athletes.” Wang Dengfeng said, “the children have mastered a certain sports skill, from primary school to high school, to college, they have participated in the competition, and they may come out excellent athletes. We should realize that if we do it well, the education can be truly integrated, which can open up a national education channel for the development of competitive talents in our country. We often talk about foreign countries, especially the United States, where 90% of the Olympic gold medalists come from college students. If we develop according to the current model, this will also become a reality.”
Changing places
wang dengfeng said that the second thing to do in the reform of school physical education in china is to realize the changes in the construction of school sports venues and teachers.
“At present, both of them are seriously lacking in physical education in our school, with insufficient teaching staff, weak ability, insufficient venues and too much debts.” He said.
The School Sports goal of “Four in One” puts forward new requirements on the ability and workload of PE teachers and the number of venues.
Wang Dengfeng said, “the workload of PE teachers will at least double. For example, if you used to need five PE teachers, you may need 10 now. Because you have to teach, organize after-school training, and organize competitions in which all members participate. Now we want everyone to participate in at least the class competition, which requires manpower and space. The venue is also in arrears. One of the most important aspects that we need to speed up to make up for the short board of education is the construction of physical education teachers and venues, which is an obvious short board in the development of physical education in china.”
Wang Dengfeng revealed that there is a gap of about 200000 in the establishment of physical education teachers nationwide.
He said that the Ministry of Education will issue two documents to plan the construction of sports and aesthetic education teachers and the construction of sports and aesthetic education venues and venues in schools in the next three years.
“This should be done well, and the running conditions of school physical education and aesthetic education will be significantly improved. It should not be too much to change this change.” He said.
Unite as one
in order to ensure the transformation of ideology and the implementation of the construction of site facilities and teaching staff, Wang Dengfeng believes that incentive policies need to be introduced to mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties so that principals, parents, students can actively participate in sports activities and competitions.
He said: “This needs to reform the education evaluation system. In terms of school physical education, it mainly includes two aspects, one is how to mobilize the enthusiasm of the government, education administrative departments and school principals. The second is the evaluation of students, which is more critical. The situation of students taking physical education classes, participating in extracurricular exercises, participating in sports competitions, their physical health status, the level of mastery of sports skills, the improvement of sound personality and will quality, it should become an important basis for students’ comprehensive evaluation and further study. We need to get through this channel. Because if this article is not added, all the previous ones may be in vain. The government has invested a lot of manpower and material resources. How many physical education classes are opened in the school every week and how many sports competitions and exercises are organized for students. However, how many students participate, how they participate and how they learn have nothing to do with himself. Students’ endogenous motivation to participate in physical exercise is seriously insufficient.”
Wang Dengfeng said that as a measure of the reform of the evaluation system, the sports bonus points for senior high school entrance examination have been implemented nationwide and the results are good. He said: “According to our observation in recent years, the physical health of primary school students has improved significantly in recent years because of the cancellation of the examination for junior high school students. At the beginning of the third year and the first year of senior high school, it reached a peak again, which was the direct effect of sports bonus points in senior high school entrance examination, because he had to practice at that time. Then from the second year of senior high school to the university, it has been declining, and this trend has not been reversed until now.”
He said: “We hope that after several years of hard work, we can truly make sports a main course. In the senior high school entrance examination, it should play the role of the main course, which is the same score as the number of words.”
Wang Dengfeng revealed that relevant parties are also exploring how sports can play a role in college entrance examination admission. This year, the Ministry of Education issued a policy that colleges and universities must take additional examinations in sports.
“We will gradually plus-sized the score or its proportion of physical education in entering school, until one day we may also propose how to add points to physical education in the college entrance examination to affect every student. In this way, this policy system can be established to truly stimulate students’ enthusiasm.” He said.
Wang Dengfeng said that the goal of school physical education reform is to achieve a perfect combination of strengthening people’s physical fitness and improving the level of Chinese sports competition in school physical education. He said: “Every student is healthy, and the national fitness is realized. Every student has mastered sports skills, because we have regular and regular events. It must be a blowout for excellent athletes to stand out, and it is not good for Chinese competitive sports to improve.”
Wang Dengfeng believes that the reform of school physical education has many clues and difficulties. It is an orderly and gradual process and cannot be achieved overnight. He said: “When our incentive mechanism continues to be improved, it takes time to change customs and change places. It needs to be gradually improved. We can’t eat a fat man. But first, we must define our goals, path and tasks. I think if we move forward step by step, there must be new changes every year.”