The Reaserch On Curriculum Problems Of Non-governmental Schools For Children Of Migrant Workers

Since the education problems of children of migrant workers have come into our view, curriculum and instruction issues in non-govermental schools for children of migrant workers have increasingly isolated from the enducation problems of children of migrant workers and become forward as one of the focus study contents. At present, the curriculum problem in schools for children of migrant workers is still in the initial stage. In order to know the condition of that problem, the author takes Beijing Xingzhi primary school Gongcun branch campus and Dandelion secondary school as the respondent. With using many reaserch methods, such as literature and data study, interviewing, questionare survey, and observation around the key aspects which affact currilum a lot, and after in-depth investigation and analysis of the curriculum in Xingzhi primary school and Dandelion secondary school, the author found the curriculum current situation is as following:1.On the curriculum setting, the non-govermental schools for children of migrant workers set their curriculum according to the new curriculum standards of Ministry of Education, and both choose text books printed by People's Educational Press as the main learning materials. Comparisons with the pubilc schools, the curriculum setting is not very complete, and the teaching time is not very reasonable. Especially moral courses, mental health education curriculum, comprehensive practice activity courses and school-based curriculum lessons. What's more, the curriculum schedule designer is often the teaching manager of school. Therefore, curriculum setting is lack of outside scientific guidance.2.In the process of teaching, some of the teaching subjects and time do not match the curriculum schedule very strictly. What's more, the non-govermental schools for children of migrant workers'self-fund is finite, the venue is too small, hardware and software for instruction are lack, teacher professional quality is not high, liquidity is very frequent and students'knowledge foundation are weak, and the parents are lack of the awareness to cooperate with school instruction. All of the above reasons hinder the smooth implementation of school curriculum. Espcially the subjects such like English courses, sports programs, music courses and Comprehensive Practice Course are affected serious.3.By the comparison of curriculum between those two research schools and public school-Jinhai school in Daxing District of Beijing, we can find that the curriculum setting and implementation in the third-year of junior high school are different in some aspects. Because of the restrict of household register system, children of migrant workers can not continue their education in city when they complete the compulsory education. Dandelion secondary school takes account the different way of her students after school, so they setting the two-branch type curriculum for students who are in the third-year grade. one of the branch grasps the exam for students who can get a further study in high school, and the other branch grasps the courses of basic life skills and vocational skills for stentdents who will enter the social. In this way, all kinds of students can have different levels of development at the same time.4. The results of Curriculum setting and implementation is that after most of children of migrant workers have received education through the non-govermental schools, their basic cultural knowledge has been improved and civilized behavior become sociable, their characters become cheerful and optimistic. However, judge from the comprehensive development of students, the curriculum in that kind of schools can not deeply help students to develop their personalities and special talents because of school teachers' professional competence and teaching resources limitation.Viewing of the above findings, this paper presents some recommendations:the education authority and educational research institutes should strengthen supervision and support non-governmental schools to further standardize the curriculum setting and enhance faculty specialization for children of migrant workers; the community should help those schools to rich the curriculum resources and parents should play a role as the cooperator of the smooth curriculum implementation; and suggested that non-governmental schools do some self-reinforced construction on curriculum and improve the quality of teaching. Finally, the author hopes this study will help to promote the optimization curriculum in this kind of schools and can improve their teaching quality, which serves to train the children of migrant workers better.