Chongqing Municipal Education Commission: We must incorporate conservation education into the curriculum system and resolutely stop food waste in schools.

Original title: Chongqing Municipal Education Commission: We Must Incorporate Conservation Education into the Curriculum System and Resolutely Stop Food Waste in Schools

Recently, the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission issued the “Notice on how to resolutely stop the behavior of food waste in schools and how to practically cultivate the conservation habits of students” (hereinafter referred to as the “Notice”, requiring schools in all regions to address current campus food waste and lack of student awareness of savings and other outstanding issues, To effectively strengthen guidance and management. Schools must incorporate conservation education in the curricular system and carry out at least 2-3 times diligence and frugality experience activities each semester, and at the same time solidly carry out the “CD Action I Practice” activities.

Incorporate conservation education into the curriculum system and give a special lesson.

How to cultivate the habit of diligence and saving in students? The “Notice” proposes that a special lesson on strict economics be given. Primary and secondary schools should take full advantage of the role of the main channel in the classroom and education to prevent food waste and cultivate saving habits throughout the education and teaching process.

Insist on placing conservation education in a more prominent position and including it in the national educational curriculum system to achieve organic integration and full coverage. Each semester, the thematic education of “embarrassing waste, proud to save” will be included in the “first lesson” of the school.

Schools in all regions should focus on launching “Food Saving and Love Advertising Week” on the eve of “10.16” World Food Day. Through thematic posters, advertising columns, handwritten newspapers, electronic screens and other media, create a good atmosphere of “stop catering waste and cultivate savings habits.” Through themed class meetings, essay speeches, reading and painting, and other activities, conservation education is incorporated into building campus culture. Carry out activities like looking for “good savior boys” and striving to be “savings stars” so that strict economics can be a model and demonstration.

Do at least 2 ~ 3 diligence and savings experience activities every semester

The “Notice” requires schools in various regions to combine actual conditions and organize at least 2-3 diligence and savings experiences that are appropriate for school age each semester. Instruct students to conduct social practices, problem research, and research studies such as food production, catering consumption, and table waste. Encourage students to participate in agricultural production, and participate in work on productive practice and other bases.

Relying on universities and scientific research institutes, the special educational e-reader “Diligence and frugality with me” is compiled and printed in sections for free use in primary and secondary schools.

Adhere to the leading cadre meal system in primary and secondary schools, and promptly discover and resolve problems such as wasted meals for teachers and students. Establish a restaurant quality feedback system to reduce food waste caused by food quality and flavor factors

Improve the student evaluation system, incorporate the development of daily economic behaviors and habits into the comprehensive quality evaluation system for primary and secondary students, and treat the development of conservation education as an important content for evaluate principals and teachers.

Carry out a “CD Action” to promote the provision of small and medium meals.

The “Notice” also requires schools in all regions to carry out “Action DC I Practice” activities. Use information technology to implement refined management and do a good job of purchasing ingredients and serving food according to the number of diners. Stick to the consumption concept of “the amount of food, the CD is right” and make sure that there are not many meals, little preparation in the kitchen and no leftovers after meals, to ensure that food waste is reduced by more than 10% each year.

Each school should adjust the amount of food according to the characteristics of students of different ages and promote the provision of small and medium meals. Schools that implement nutrition improvement plans should gradually appoint full-time (part-time) nutritionists to provide as much as possible a variety of dietary combinations that students love and to avoid food waste at the source. It is necessary to widely promote the code of conduct for eating and use the “small dining table” to promote the “great civilization.”

Formulate and issue a proposal to resolutely stop food waste, build a civilized dining room, and eliminate the waste dining culture in colleges, middle schools, and elementary schools. Elementary and secondary schools should also play the primary role of students, strengthen the home-school bond, community interaction, and promote and influence family and community members to increase their awareness of diligence and diligence. saving through students’ good saving habits.

Create a batch of conservation-oriented model schools.

The Municipal Education Commission will continue to promote green school construction and will fully play the exemplary role of green schools in the tight economy. Take the development of love and food savings, diligence and frugality as important indicators for selecting and naming green schools, and strive to build 500 green schools at the municipal level by the end of 2020. All schools must take the initiative to implement the responsibility to create a green school, fully mobilize the participation of teachers, students and staff, and strive to make every school an affordable campus.