What exactly is "personalized education" and what are its bad effects on children?

The mathematics group of a school in Hangzhou spent five months editing a set of school-based mathematics exercise books for students to use and help them fall in love with mathematics. Compared with the usual exercise book, this exercise book is not thick and looks good. The cover is dominated by yellow, blue, green and purple, which not only makes people feel the joy of childhood, but also exudes the unique calmness in mathematics learning. In the middle of the exercise book is a small white ball symbolizing the earth, with the words "I love learning mathematics" written on it, and four lovely animals, camel, monkey, lion and dolphin, are attached below. According to wujun, director of the Mathematics Teaching and Research Section of this school, this exercise book is specially tailored for the students of this school according to their learning characteristics.

The concept of "personal tailor" homework is not new. In recent years, schools all over the country are trying. For example, it is reported that there are 137 schools in Anhui Province that have piloted big data precision teaching to promote "personalized service" for students. After each exam, Big Data will analyze the wrong questions and then provide personalized homework to make up the gap. Students don't have to finish the whole test paper, and teachers no longer sprinkle pepper noodles by experience.

"personal tailor" homework, simply put, is to arrange different homework according to the different situations of students, so as to prevent all students from doing the same homework, resulting in low quality homework. Students with good grades should brush the questions they already know repeatedly, while students with poor grades should chew on the questions they can't do. Theoretically speaking, personalized homework can improve the quality of homework and reduce the workload. Personalized homework is a part of students' personality education.

However, from the reality, the implementation of personalized homework in schools is likely to become a thankless thing. First of all, to arrange personalized homework for different students, teachers need to accurately analyze the students' situation and then customize the plan. It is very difficult for all students to assign different homework in a school. Even if it is done, it may cause controversy. Some parents will question why the homework customized for children is different from that of "Xueba". What is the basis? Is it discrimination against your own children? Wait a minute.

Secondly, under the current examination evaluation system, can personalized homework really reduce students' homework burden? Personalized homework can reduce the burden on students, which requires the high cooperation of parents. If parents are worried that their children will do less homework than other children, which will affect their test scores, they will definitely find other homework for their children besides the personalized homework arranged by the school. For homework, many parents have the mentality of "willing but unable", which is difficult to reverse under the examination-oriented competitive education. There is a simple reason. Students do different personalized homework, but they will face the same test paper in the future. Therefore, whether it is better for students to do the same homework or personalized homework, parents will be very entangled and anxious. Under the influence of anxiety, it will be personalized homework and other homework. This is how our students' maritime tactical training came about.

Speaking of personalized homework, one-on-one training in off-campus training institutions is personalized education, which is the most personalized education that can be achieved at present. However, has the burden been reduced by choosing one-on-one trainees? The burden of students in the basic education stage in China is heavy homework, but the root is a single score evaluation system, and all students should be higher on a test paper. Therefore, the so-called personalized education is essentially personalized scoring. This is completely different from the real personalized education. True personalized education is an education that respects students' individuality and develops students' interests. It is not to put students on a track to compare winning and losing, but to give students multiple development space.

At present, in order to reduce the burden on students, all parts of our country have put forward the new concept of "improving quality and increasing efficiency". Compared with the previous practice of blindly asking schools to reduce workload and exams, it has led to the improvement of on-campus and off-campus burden reduction. Improving the quality of school education can make parents reduce the demand for off-campus training, thus realizing the overall relative burden reduction. However, in view of the fact that there is no substantial reform in the educational evaluation system, under the utilitarian educational environment of the whole society, "personal tailor" homework and "improving quality and increasing efficiency" are likely to become a new round of image engineering and tossing. In order to reduce students' burden and realize real personalized education and diversified education, we must reform the single score evaluation system and establish a diversified evaluation system to guide basic education schools and families to attach importance to students' personality and interest development.