Recently, the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Education and Science and Technology Talent Work Leading Group issued the "Several Opinions on Promoting the Physical and Mind Development of Primary and Secondary School Students" (hereinafter referred to as the "Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health"), which for the first time made an integrated plan and deployment of students' physical and mental health, and simultaneously improved students' physical and mental health. This is a positive measure for Beijing to implement the concept of health first education, focusing on consolidating the "basic skills" of education, and mobilizing the whole city to protect the healthy growth of students.
Integrated planning and deployment of physical and mental health
Let students grow physically and mentally simultaneously
The "Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health" issued this time have five parts and 20 specific measures, focusing on the integration of five education, school-led, family education, social participation, and organizational guarantee, highlighting the construction of the environment at the three levels of school, family and society, focusing on the cultivation and optimization of the three major relationships of peers, teachers and students and parents-child, and empowering students to grow healthyly with precise support and empowering students to improve quality and efficiency through effectiveness evaluation, and systematically building a "Beijing model" for the healthy development of students' physical and mental health that meets the needs of the new era.
A relevant person in charge of the Municipal Education Commission introduced that the "Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health" has made integrated plans and deployments for the first time for students' physical and mental health, simultaneously improving students' physical and positive psychological qualities, promoting the comprehensive development of students' morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor, and cultivating new people of the times who shoulder the great responsibility of national rejuvenation.
Strengthening the integration of five educations is the focus of making students strong themselves, effectively enhancing their psychological resilience and stress resistance, so that every "education" affects students' healthy growth, and allows students to have the strong physique, psychological quality and willful qualities needed for future growth, so that students can calmly face the pressures and challenges in their future study, life and work.
Pay attention to the relationship between students and people around you
Create a comprehensive support environment for healthy growth
The "Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health" proposes to pay attention to the relationship between students and people around you, improve the interactive support system for peers, teachers and students, and parent-child, clarify specific measures such as student growth files, peer mutual assistance and teacher-student interaction mechanisms, new parent meetings, parent schools, and home visits, and create a comprehensive support environment for students to grow up healthily.
Relevant person in charge of the Municipal Education Commission analyzed that the "Twenty Measures for Physical and Mind Health" issued this time focuses on "education", pays attention to every student, continuously optimizes the pace of students' growth, guides the school to build a educational ecological environment with precise support, sustainable development, diversified and coordinated education, and runs warm education, and promotes students' powerful growth.
Home, school and community escort
Optimize the new chain of students' physical and mental health services
Regardless of school, family, or society, every environment is the key to shaping a sound personality and cultivating physical and mental health. The "Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health" clearly define these three levels of tasks, and cooperate with parent-school and social resources to build a global escort mechanism to better support and serve students' healthy growth and comprehensive development.
Beijing will promote the cultivation of physical and mental health literacy into the entire scene of campus life, encourage the creation of psychological angles, interactive walls, stress relief devices, etc. in the public areas of the school, and promote the formation of a positive, open and inclusive campus culture. We will widely gather social support, accelerate the construction of a collaborative education and education alliance between home, school and society, and create conditions for students to carry out activities that are beneficial to their physical and mental health, such as social practice and volunteer services. Establish and improve the school’s social work system, support professional social workers, volunteers, etc. to carry out physical and mental health services for students, and form a “big health” education pattern.
Grasp quantitative indicators and full-staff training
Make the "changes" after the policy is implemented sensible and accessible
In combination with the content of the "Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health", the Beijing Education System will further refine tasks and measures, strengthen the linkage between cities, districts and schools, form a plan to promote implementation, optimize the index system for students' physical and mental health evaluation, and promote the healthy growth of students, protect students' equal rights and interests, and create a harmonious educational environment as an important basis for evaluating the effectiveness of school management, so that the "changes" after the implementation of the policy can be sensible and accessible.
The key to implementing the "last mile" of the child's healthy growth action lies in the joint efforts of all teachers, parents and all sectors of society. Beijing has launched a physical and mental health education training plan for all primary and secondary school teachers, striving to achieve full coverage of three-level training at the municipal-district-school level within three years, and improve the health literacy of all teachers and the ability to serve students' physical and mental health. Through teaching alliances, new parent meetings and parent schools, all districts and schools will enhance parents' attention and awareness of their children's physical and mental health, and provide children with a good family support environment. At the same time, we will pay attention to health education for the society and create a good atmosphere in which the whole society cares for and supports the healthy development of primary and secondary school students.
In recent years, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission has always based on the laws and actual gains of students' growth, and insisted on systematic planning, overall promotion and orderly implementation. From "one quarter of an hour between classes" to "eight sports items" and "aesthetic education immersion action", to "twenty physical and mental health items"... Beijing has successively introduced reform policies, taking the lead and launching a combination of punches. Let’s take a look at the excerpts of the “Twenty Points for Physical and Mind Health” ↓↓
Several opinions on promoting the healthy physical and mental development of primary and secondary school students (excerpted from key points)
01
In terms of moral education and people
"Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health" proposed-
■ Cultivate the ideological character of being upright and kind, run the "big ideological and political courses", teach the courses of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, firmly love the Party, the country, and socialism, and establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values.
■ Strengthen ideological and moral education, carry forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, develop a good sense of the rule of law and social morality, abide by public order and good customs, and form good behavioral habits. Strengthen social practice education, build and use educational practice bases well, guide students to perceive society, love nature, cherish life, and cultivate a healthy and sunny mentality.
■ Continue to consolidate the results of "double reduction" and further reduce the homework burden and off-campus training burden for students in the compulsory education stage. Stimulate classroom vitality, adopt diversified teaching methods, enhance students' interest in learning, enhance cognitive ability and problem-solving ability. Establish a channel for students to develop diversified students.
■Take good physical education classes that can sweat. The school (group school) holds a sports festival or sports meeting in spring and autumn each year, organizes running activities for all teachers and students to participate, and carry out "class competitions" and other sports competitions for all members to improve students' psychological resilience, resistance to setbacks and teamwork spirit.
■ Create an artistic vitality classroom, highlight the aesthetic education practice of all members, and encourage the development of activities such as "singing the campus". The school holds at least two school-level exhibitions and display activities every academic year to build a normalized display platform for students such as chorus competitions, drama performances, and poetry recitation.
■ Implement the "one school, one list" system for labor education, organize students to participate in activities such as environmental greening and beautification, volunteer services, plant cultivation, and handmade production, and develop good labor habits
02
In terms of educating people in schools
"Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health" proposed-
■ Integrate physical and mental health into the entire process of education and teaching, set up physical and mental health courses and practical activities at different stages of study, and hold a series of activities that are beneficial to physical and mental health for teachers, students and parents in a popular way every year to promote the healthy growth of students through interesting interactions.
■ Improve the student growth archive system, give full play to the educational role of school cadres and teachers, encourage schools with conditions to pilot the establishment of "growth mentors", formulate support plans for students who need guidance, and provide "one-on-one" assistance and guidance.
■ Organize various class activities, actively support students in the integration of schools and groups, establish mutual assistance mechanisms such as study groups, interest groups, student clubs, and "school partners". Each student participates at least one interest group or club. Guide students to correctly understand the differences between classmates and correctly handle conflicts between classmates.
■ Encourage teachers to be "big friends" who are willing to talk to and seek help, actively discover the highlights and expertise of each student, establish communication mechanisms such as "teacher-student dialogue day", "spiritual mailbox", and "face-to-face lunch" to promote two-way communication between teachers and students.
■ Encourage the arrangement of psychological corners, interactive walls, pressure relief devices, etc. in the public areas of the school to create a "spiritual gas station", revitalize the practice scenes of health activities within the school, and promote the formation of a positive, open and inclusive campus cultural atmosphere.
03
In terms of home-school collaboration
"Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health" proposed-
■ Pay attention to family building, inherit good family traditions, establish an equal and harmonious parent-child relationship, advocate parents to "listen for a quarter of an hour and have an hour of activities" with their children every day, encourage parents to participate in parent-child sports meetings and other activities, increase companionship time, and improve the quality of companionship.
■ Promote the effective implementation of "parent meetings, parents' classes, and home visits", build parent schools, systematically develop three-level parent courses at the municipal, district and school levels and regularly push them, use artificial intelligence technology to build family education intelligent bodies, and provide educational guidance and support for parents.
■ By establishing regular communication channels such as campus open days, principal reception days, and home-school joint meetings, parents are encouraged to enter the school, have an in-depth understanding of educational and teaching practices, and participate in students' physical and mental health activities.
04
In terms of social participation
"Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health" proposed-
■ Accelerate the construction of a collaborative education and education alliance between home, school and society, coordinate the support of education for community and social units, and public cultural facilities resources, create conditions for students to carry out activities that are beneficial to physical and mental health, and promote the whole society to care for and support the healthy development of primary and secondary school students.
■ Implement the responsibilities of government, enterprises, schools, families and social protection, and jointly strengthen the management of students' use of online social platforms. Guide students to develop the habit of using electronic devices scientifically, improve students' network literacy, and strictly implement the school's mobile phone management system.
■ Implement the student health examination system, carry out monitoring of common diseases and health-influencing factors for students, and monitoring of hyperopia reserves for preschool children, focus on and preventing myopia, obesity, scoliosis and other issues that affect students' health, and provide graded student health intervention services. Pay attention to the physical and mental health of teachers and improve support and service measures.
05
In terms of organizational guarantee
"Twenty Articles on Physical and Mind Health" proposed-
■ All districts should include the physical and mental health indicators of students in the overall plan for education development and important agenda, increase funding support and guarantee, and all primary and secondary schools should place the physical and mental health development of students in a more prominent position, and formulate a physical and mental health improvement plan for "one school, one policy".
■ Increase the efforts to train professional talents such as psychology and school health, and fully equip full-time psychological teachers, school doctors and health care teachers. Carry out physical and mental health education and training for all teachers at the municipal, district and school levels to improve teachers' health literacy and ability to serve students' physical and mental health.
■ Optimize the system of student physical and mental health evaluation indicators, and guide and urge all districts and schools to carry out their work according to local conditions. Promoting the healthy growth of students, protecting students' equal rights and interests, and creating a harmonious educational environment are used as important basis for evaluating the school's school performance.
The following is the full text of "Several Opinions on Promoting the Healthy Physical and Mind Development of Primary and Secondary School Students"—
Several Opinions on Promoting the Healthy Physical and Mind Development of Primary and Secondary School Students
In accordance with the spirit of the National Education Conference and the "Outline of the Planning for Building a Strong Education Country (2024-2035)", the following opinions are put forward.
1. Highlight moral education and lay a solid foundation for the healthy and comprehensive development of students' physical and mental health
(1) Cultivate the ideological character of being upright and kind. Run the "big ideological and political courses" well, teach the courses of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, firmly love the Party, the country, and socialism, and establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values. Strengthen ideological and moral education, carry forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, develop a good sense of the rule of law and social morality, abide by public order and good customs, and form good behavioral habits. Strengthen social practice education, build and use educational practice bases, organize all students to visit museums or red education bases at least once every semester, and carry out at least once a group spring or autumn outing every academic year to guide students to perceive society, love nature, cherish life, and cultivate a healthy and sunny mentality.
(2) Deepen the reform of education and teaching. Continue to consolidate the results of "double reduction" and further reduce the homework burden and off-campus training burden for students in the compulsory education stage. Strengthen curriculum teaching reform, build an academic advancement system that is compatible with school age and school stages, and optimize the academic achievement test methods and performance forms. Stimulate classroom vitality, adopt diversified teaching methods, enhance students' interest in learning, enhance cognitive ability and problem-solving ability. Improve the quality of after-school services, implement the reading actions for young students, and carry out various forms of distinctive science popularization activities. Improve the enrollment and training methods, promote the integration of academic stages, promote the integration of general and vocational schools, and establish a channel for students' diversified development.
(III) Promote the spirit of courage to fight. Implement the plan for strengthening students' physical fitness, improve the school's physical fitness evaluation mechanism, deepen the unified physical fitness test for students in grades 4, 68, and drive students in all grades to strengthen their health. Take good "sweatable" physical education classes, enrich the content of one-quarter of the break and after-school sports services, and ensure that students have no less than 2 hours of comprehensive physical activity every day, including at least 1 hour of moderate or above physical exercise. The school (group school) holds a sports festival or sports meeting in spring and autumn each year, organizes running activities involving all teachers and students, vigorously develops the "three major balls" of youth, and carries out "class competitions" and other sports competitions for all members, improves students' psychological resilience, resistance to setbacks and teamwork spirit, so that students can achieve physical and psychological growth in cooperation and confrontation.
(IV) Implement the action of immersing the soul in aesthetic education. Strengthen school art and music education, promote elegant art, opera art, and national art into campuses, create an artistic vitality classroom, and guide students to understand, appreciate, and create beauty. Schools are encouraged to create aesthetic education experience spaces and create a "beautiful campus" environment. Highlight the aesthetic education practice of all members, encourage the carrying out activities such as "Singing Campus", and build brands such as "Aesthetic Education", Student Art Festival, etc. The school holds at least two school-level exhibitions and display activities every academic year, and builds a normal display platform for students such as chorus competitions, drama performances, and poetry recitation. Make full use of the ancient capital culture, red culture, Beijing-style culture, and innovative cultural resources, organize study and study visits, so that students can soothe their moods, enrich their spirits, cultivate their sentiments, and warm their souls through the experience of beauty.
(5) Strengthen labor education practice to shape people. Deepen the construction of school labor education curriculum, implement the "one school, one list" system for labor education, integrate scientific and technological elements and intangible cultural heritage skills into labor education, organize students to participate in school environmental greening and beautification, volunteer services, plant cultivation, handmade production and other activities, and develop good labor habits. Parents and students are encouraged to work together to carry out daily housework and cultivate students to master the essential life skills and labor abilities. Support students to participate in off-campus labor practice independently, guide students to participate in community governance and public welfare activities, enhance social service awareness and social responsibility, promote the spirit of labor, feel the happiness of labor, relieve stress, and regulate emotions during the labor process.
2. Adhere to school leadership and create an environment conducive to the healthy growth of students' physical and mental health
(VI) Focus on improving the effectiveness of health education. Integrate physical and mental health into the entire process of education and teaching, and establish a health education and teaching resource library covering all levels of education. Carry out health education around lifestyle, growth and development, adolescence health, sports health, mental health, nutrition and health, etc., and strengthen life safety education. Set up physical and mental health courses and practical activities at different stages of school. Elementary school focuses on habit development, self-knowledge, interpersonal communication, emotional adjustment, etc.; junior high school focuses on adapting to changes in adolescence, rationally evaluating oneself, mastering learning strategies and communication methods, and responding to setbacks and failures; high school focuses on cultivating social responsibility, improving stress resistance and communication skills, and carrying out career planning. Every year, we hold a series of activities that are beneficial to physical and mental health for teachers, students and parents in a popular way, and promote the healthy growth of students through interesting interactions.
(7) Accurately support students' healthy growth. Improve the student growth archive system, comprehensively record students' physical and mental development, academic performance, interests and expertise, growth process, teacher-student interaction, home-school communication, etc., strengthen the tracking and analysis of student development, regularly feedback to parents, and provide personalized development suggestions. Give full play to the educational role of all school cadres and teachers, and encourage schools with conditions to pilot the establishment of "growth mentors". In combination with the growth files, provide support plans for students who need guidance and provide "one-on-one" assistance and guidance. Pay attention to students' emotional and behavioral changes in critical periods such as the start of school season, school entrance season, exam week and adolescence, carry out targeted psychological counseling, health lectures, etc., and strengthen care and support.
(8) Actively build good peer relationships. Organize various class activities to allow students to participate in class management, cultivate team awareness, and enhance class belonging. Actively support students to integrate into schools and groups, establish mutual assistance mechanisms such as study groups, interest groups, student clubs, and "school partners". Each student participates at least one interest group or club, providing students with more opportunities for communication and interaction, learning communication skills through cooperation between different groups, and promoting mutual trust, friendship, unity and mutual assistance. Guide students to correctly understand the differences between classmates, correctly handle conflicts between classmates, effectively prevent and resolutely eliminate campus bullying.
(9) Promote the establishment of harmonious teacher-student relationship. Adhere to equality and democracy, common growth, build a teacher-student relationship with each other with mutual respect, understanding, tolerance, trust and appreciation, encourage teachers to be "big friends" that students are willing to talk to and seek help, and actively discover the highlights and strengths of each student. Establish communication mechanisms such as "teacher-student dialogue day", "spiritual mailbox", and "face-to-face lunch" to promote two-way communication between teachers and students. Explore interactive, heuristic, inquiry, experiential and other classroom teaching, encourage students to actively participate in classroom activities, and enhance teacher-student interaction and understanding in the teaching process. Support and motivate teachers to pay more attention to students' physical and mental health, select typical cases, and play a demonstration role.
(10) Build a good campus support environment. It is encouraged to arrange psychological corners, interactive walls, pressure relief devices, etc. in the public areas of the school to create a "spiritual gas station", revitalize the practical scenes of health activities within the school, and promote the formation of a positive, open and inclusive campus cultural atmosphere. Strengthen the construction of "civil defense, physical defense, and technical defense" on campus safety, improve the school's infectious disease prevention and control and food safety management system, and improve dining conditions and meal nutrition quality. Optimize the physical environment such as campus infrastructure and safety facilities to create good learning and living conditions.
3. Strengthen family education and form a joint force for parents and schools to promote students' physical and mental health
(11) Guide and establish a scientific concept of nurturing. Pay attention to family building and inherit good family traditions. Parents should understand and respect the characteristics of their children's physical and mental development laws, set growth goals reasonably, and encourage their children to make independent choices, self-manage and self-service. Guide parents to pay attention to their children's physical and mental health, advocate a healthy lifestyle, arrange dietary nutrition reasonably, ensure that their children have sufficient sleep, and promote the development of good living and learning habits. Establish an equal and harmonious parent-child relationship, advocate parents to "listen for a quarter of an hour and have an hour of activities" with their children every day, and encourage parents to participate in parent-child sports meetings and other activities, increase companionship time and improve the quality of companionship.
(12) Strengthen family education guidance services. Promote the effective implementation of "parent meetings, parent classes, and home visits", hold new parent meetings at different stages of school, add special lectures on physical and mental health and sports, and use case teaching, parent salons, seminars, discussion interactions, experience sharing and other methods to enrich the form and content of parent meetings. Build a parent school well, systematically develop three-level parent courses at the municipal, district and school level and push them regularly, use artificial intelligence technology to build family education intelligent bodies, and provide educational guidance and support for parents. Implement the home visit system in detail, and ensure the "six must-visit" for six types of situations such as special families, abnormal behavior, emotional changes, academic difficulties, social disorders, and life changes.
(13) Establish an effective mechanism for parent-school co-education. Optimize the school’s parent committee system, regularly collect and absorb rational suggestions, and allow parent representatives to participate in school matters consultation and supervision. By establishing regular communication channels such as campus open days, principal reception days, and home-school joint meetings, parents are encouraged to enter the school, have an in-depth understanding of educational and teaching practices, and participate in students' physical and mental health activities. Carry out the "Parent Volunteer" activity to assist the school in doing a good job in daily work and form a good relationship between home and school.
4. Deepen social participation and establish a pattern of protecting students' physical and mental health from multiple parties
(14) Build widely to gather social support. Accelerate the construction of a collaborative education and education alliance between home, school and society, give full play to the role of the working committee for caring for the next generation, coordinate the strength of the community and social units, and public cultural facilities resources to support education, and create conditions for students to carry out social practice, volunteer services and other activities that are beneficial to physical and mental health. Establish and improve the school’s social work system and support professional social workers, volunteers, etc. to provide physical and mental health services for students. Strengthen health publicity and education, and promote the whole society to care about and support the healthy development of primary and secondary school students.
(15) Guide students to use the Internet healthily. Implement the responsibilities of government, enterprises, schools, families and social protection, and jointly strengthen the management of students' use of online social platforms. Guide students to develop the habit of using electronic devices scientifically, improve students' network literacy, and strictly implement the school's mobile phone management system. Strengthen family education guidance, encourage students and parents to jointly carry out the "Screen-Off Action" to reduce excessive dependence on electronic products. Increase the supervision of information content on online platforms, carry out a series of special actions for "clear" cyberspace, and provide a civilized and safe network environment.
(16) Improve the quality of students' health services. Implement the student health examination system, carry out monitoring of common diseases and health-influencing factors for students, and monitoring of hyperopia reserves for preschool children, focusing on and preventing myopia, obesity, scoliosis and other issues that affect students' health. Improve the psychological screening mechanism that combines teacher-student reports, student and parents’ feedback, psychological assessment and professional interviews, provide students’ health intervention services in a graded manner, and formulate care and support plans. Use artificial intelligence technology to build a monitoring platform for students' physical and mental health, comprehensively analyze students' daily exercise duration, exercise load, nutritious diet, etc., and provide students with precise health services. Pay attention to the physical and mental health of teachers and improve support and service measures.
(17) Improve medical and health care service capabilities. Improve the consultation mechanism for students' physical and mental health grading medical consultation, and improve the multi-channel medical consultation service system. Support second-level and above comprehensive hospitals to open pediatric and psychological clinics, support community health service centers (township health centers) to provide pediatric and mental health services, and strengthen the construction of regional primary and secondary school health institutions and school health rooms (health rooms). Psychiatrists are encouraged to serve as health consultants in district-level psychological counseling institutions and schools, give full play to the professional advantages of vice principals of health and health, and strengthen professional guidance on physical and mental health work in schools.
5. Strengthen organizational guarantees to provide strong support for students' healthy growth
(18) Strengthen organizational leadership. All member units of the Municipal Party Committee’s Education and Science and Technology Talent Work Leading Group should attach great importance to the physical and mental health development of students, improve the communication and coordination mechanism between departments, strengthen policy support for students’ physical and mental health work, and improve the multi-channel investment mechanism. All districts should include it in the overall education development plan and important agenda, include it in the assessment and evaluation of school secretaries and principals, and increase financial support and guarantee efforts. All primary and secondary schools should place the healthy development of students' physical and mental health in a more prominent position, formulate a physical and mental health improvement plan for "one school, one policy", clarify the leading departments and tasks division, and mobilize all teachers to jointly promote the healthy growth of students.
(19) Build strong professional strength. Increase the efforts to train professional talents such as psychology and school health, and fully equip full-time psychological teachers, school doctors and health care teachers. Carry out physical and mental health education and training for all teachers at the municipal, district and school levels to improve teachers' health literacy and ability to serve students' physical and mental health. Regularly organize full-time psychological teachers to study and practice in professional medical institutions. Build and use municipal-level students' mental health development research centers and service bases, and strengthen the standardization of district-level and school psychological counseling institutions. Make good use of the power of universities and institutions in Beijing, deepen theoretical and practical research on disciplines related to physical and mental health, promote the transformation and application of scientific research results, and improve the level of physical and mental health work for students.
(20) Pay close attention to the implementation of work. Optimize the system of evaluation indicators for students' physical and mental health, guide and urge all districts and schools to carry out their work according to local conditions, and implement various measures. Promoting the healthy growth of students, protecting students' equal rights and interests, and creating a harmonious educational environment are used as important basis for evaluating the school's school performance. Timely summarize and promote good experiences and practices, build a communication platform at the city and district levels, and create a good working atmosphere.
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