Central Organization： Reforming and Perfecting Performance Appraisal Methods to Promote Teachers’ Ability to Enter and Exit

　　CCTV News:(Reporter Kang Yanlong) Recently, the editorial office of the Central Committee, together with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, issued relevant policy opinions on further tapping the potential and innovating to strengthen the management of teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools, requiring local departments in charge of compilation, education, finance and human resources and social security to co-ordinate all kinds of resources, improve the efficiency of use, and innovate the supply mode to better meet the development of primary and secondary education.

　　In some areas, there are still some problems, such as the total number of teaching staff in primary and secondary schools is not up to the national standard, and some newly-built schools are not equipped in time. Four departments, such as the Central Organizing Committee, require that the staffing of primary and secondary school staff be approved in time according to the standards within the total amount of existing career staffing to meet the needs of development. By dynamically adjusting the staffing of primary and secondary schools in different regions, urban and rural areas, schools and school segments, the use efficiency will be improved. Make good use of existing career resources and give priority to meeting the needs of primary and secondary education. Focus on the following three aspects:

　　Optimize the allocation of resources and improve the staffing efficiency of the education system

　　All localities should adjust the actual situation according to the changes of functions and tasks and the layout structure of each unit in the education system. First, they should tap the potential from the inside, revitalize the stock, and realize the maximum use efficiency of existing resources.

　　First, in combination with the reform of local institutions, we will steadily promote the integration and merger of small-scale institutions with weakened functions and tasks in the education system, and streamline and recover the compiled resources to supplement the needs of primary and secondary education.

　　Second, in combination with the urbanization process, new rural construction, poverty alleviation and equal quality education resources, we will optimize the setting of public primary and secondary schools and teaching points at all levels and rationally allocate staffing.

　　Third, according to the adjustment of the school layout structure, the population flow in urban and rural areas, and the changes in the size of students in each school section, we will strengthen the exchange and rotation of teachers and promote the dynamic adjustment of personnel and establishment between urban and rural areas, between regions, and between schools and school sections.

　　Coordinate the establishment of undertakings and give priority to ensuring the needs of primary and secondary education.

　　We will increase the overall planning of institutional resources, streamline institutional staffing through tapping potential and innovation, coordinate and adjust basic education, implement compilation standards, strengthen management and strictly compile and use, and fill the gap to meet the urgent needs of development.

　　First, all localities should, in light of the actual situation, give priority to supplementing the establishment of teaching and administrative staff in primary and secondary schools by tapping the potential of various special reforms.

　　Second, it is clearly required to increase the overall allocation of faculty and staff and the adjustment across cities and counties, and put the unified standards for faculty and staff in primary and secondary schools in place in light of the actual situation. In principle, the establishment of teaching staff in primary and secondary schools is adjusted once every 2-3 years by province, and cities and counties can adjust at any time according to the changes of students.

　　The third is to emphasize personnel and management discipline. Educational management institutions and other non-teaching units shall not mix posts with primary and secondary schools, occupy the establishment of teaching staff, and shall not lend or borrow teaching staff from primary and secondary schools for a long time to help with their work. Strictly investigate and deal with the problems of "eating empty salaries" occupied by primary and secondary school teachers, and it is strictly forbidden for public schools to teach in private schools for a long time. It is strictly forbidden to make long-term empty editors, make up for them, and employ supernumerary personnel.

　　Innovating management methods and increasing service supply

　　In recent years, many places have actively innovated and explored the management and use of teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools, and achieved certain results. On the basis of summing up local beneficial experience, we should innovate personnel management and training assessment methods, reasonably guarantee funds, increase the government’s efforts to purchase services, and support social forces to participate in educational undertakings.

　　First, encourage qualified places to explore taking the county or the administrative region at the next higher level as the unit, uniformly approve the establishment and staffing of faculty and staff, make overall use of teachers across schools, and improve the efficiency of staffing. Promote the rational flow of personnel, support teachers to teach across schools and sections, and gradually solve the problems of structural shortage of teachers in different regions, school sections and disciplines.

　　Second, all localities are required to innovate training methods, actively adapt to the requirements of new technological changes and new curriculum reform, and build a team of teachers with expertise and versatility; Reform and improve the methods of performance appraisal and the total amount of performance pay, and promote teachers to be able to go up and down, enter and leave; It is necessary to increase financial investment in education and give priority to the construction of teachers as the focus of education investment; By adopting specific policies and measures, we will guide and encourage teachers to flow to hard and poor areas.

　　Third, support qualified places to explore and utilize social resources such as universities and training institutions, and supplement courses and teaching auxiliary forces such as social practice in primary and secondary schools through government purchase of services. We will continue to deepen the reform of logistics services and gradually reduce the proportion of non-teaching personnel who use the establishment. Standardize the way of providing educational services in primary and secondary schools and attract social forces to participate. It is clear that if the local government entrusts private schools to undertake compulsory education tasks according to law, it should allocate corresponding education funds according to the entrustment agreement. Encourage sports social organizations and professional artistic talents to provide sports and art education services for primary and secondary schools to meet the needs of the development of primary and secondary education in many ways.