Some areas in Jiangsu are piloting the inclusion of music and art in the high school entrance examination

Recently, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving School Aesthetic Education" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"). It is proposed that the construction of school aesthetic education courses should take art courses as the main body, enhance the comprehensiveness of the courses, strengthen practical activities, and require qualified schools to add local courses such as dance, drama, and opera. The reporter learned that Jiangsu is planning to include art in the academic proficiency test of the college entrance examination. Currently, Zhenjiang Danyang and Nantong and other places are piloting the inclusion of music and art in the high school entrance examination.

Qualified schools should add dance, drama and other local courses

The "Opinions" pointed out that rich and high-quality aesthetic education courses should be opened. In the compulsory education stage, in addition to offering music and art courses, schools should also add local courses such as dance, drama, and opera if conditions permit. On the basis of offering music and art courses, ordinary high schools should create conditions to offer teaching modules such as dance, drama, opera, film and television. In addition, we should focus on outstanding Chinese traditional culture and arts such as opera, calligraphy, seal cutting, and paper-cutting to form the characteristics and traditions of the local school.

There will also be a series of assessment mechanisms for the development of art education. The State Council requires that all localities should carry out assessments of the artistic quality of primary and secondary school students and implement a self-evaluation system for aesthetic education in primary and secondary schools. The school must conduct a self-evaluation of its aesthetic education work every school year. The self-evaluation work implements the principal's responsibility system and is disclosed to the public through the official website of the local education department.

Many primary and secondary schools in Nanjing have art school-based courses and clubs

The reporter learned that many primary and secondary schools in Nanjing have art-based school-based courses, and with a variety of clubs, they can satisfy Children with relevant interests need to give them a space to display.

Li Jianhua, the principal of Nanjing Lotus Experimental School, told reporters that the school’s art-based courses include “TV stations” and “recording studios”. "Some students are particularly interested in these, and we want to give them their own Avenue of Stars." Li Jianhua said that in these courses, students edit and create by themselves, and the actors are also themselves. The school’s radio drama club is also run by students themselves and has produced many excellent original works. Regarding the inclusion of art in the high school and college entrance examinations in the future, he said that this can make art more valued.

Many parents of children studying art welcome this. "My son is studying piano. He is now in the third grade. Because he has to attend English and math tutoring classes, I am going to stop him from taking piano lessons." Ms. Song said that she was helpless to make this decision and her child was not happy with it, but she had previously studied art. It didn't work when I entered higher school, so I had to let it go. If children with artistic expertise can benefit from the evaluation of college entrance exams in the future, I believe everyone will stick to it.

Jiangsu is planning to include art in the college entrance examination academic proficiency test

Last year, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education issued new regulations requiring the inclusion of artistic quality assessment into the students' comprehensive quality evaluation system and recording the assessment results. Enter student growth files as part of the comprehensive evaluation of student development. The artistic literacy of junior high school students is included in the academic level test, and the assessment results are included in the total score of the high school entrance examination. The comprehensive aesthetic and performance qualities of high school students are used as a reference for admission to the college entrance examination.

Relevant people in Jiangsu’s education sector said that at present, Zhenjiang Danyang and Nantong and other places are piloting the inclusion of music and art in the high school entrance examination. “In the future, the assessment and evaluation of artistic quality will also be strengthened, which is brewing in the college entrance examination. Incorporate art into academic proficiency tests. ”

After the launch of diversified aesthetic education courses, will there be enough teachers? It is reported that Jiangsu has hired 1,500 new primary and secondary art teachers this year, and is also formulating art teacher qualifications. training program. “We are also planning to issue professional qualification standards for art teachers in the near future,” said a relevant source.