A strong country must first strengthen education, and a strong education must first strengthen teachers. The grand blueprint for building a high-quality education system is in full swing, and the momentum of education and teaching reform and development in the context of smart education is more rapid.
Xi'an Jiaotong University Teacher Teaching Development Center came into being in 2011, is the "new sprout" that grows on the "big tree" of Jiaotong University, the center adheres to the original intention of cultivating great teachers and improving the quality of teaching, adheres to the combination of the law of teacher teaching development and the actual situation of the school, strengthens ideological and political guidance, scientifically constructs a work system, carries out in-depth theoretical research, strives to expand the field of work, gives full play to the demonstration and radiation role of the national demonstration center, and continues to explore the road of teacher teaching development with the characteristics of Jiaotong University.
Strengthen ideological and political guidance, and strengthen the construction of teachers' ethics and style
Under the leadership of the Teacher Work Department of the Party Committee of the school, the center adheres to the ideological and political guidance in teaching and training with the first consciousness.
The center adheres to the spirit of westward migration to lead the cultivation of teachers' ethics and style. At the beginning of its establishment, the center took "inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of westward migration and guiding the way for young teachers" as its own responsibility, cultivating the ethics of "loving the country and the school, dedicating and loving students, teaching and educating people, rigorous study, serving the society, and being a role model".
With the support of the teaching and training system, the center establishes the goal of "morality + strong teachers", and runs the construction of teacher ethics and teacher style through all stages of teacher teaching and training. Carry out a series of immersion training, hold teaching and training courses for new teachers in Yan'an, and hold ideological and political education training courses for reserve teachers and ideological and political teachers in red education bases such as Jinggangshan.
Curriculum ideology and politics is an important part of teachers' teaching. Since November 2021, the center, together with the studios of famous teachers, has planned and organized 10 ideological and political training activities for backbone teachers, covering all secondary teaching units in the school, with more than 1,500 teachers participating, cultivating a "spark" for the full coverage of ideological and political courses.
Construct a teacher training system and open up the road to the advancement of famous teachers
The center continues to explore the law of teacher teaching development, and pays attention to the systematization of teacher training mode, the stage of professional growth, and the diversification of training methods. It has established a "five-stage progressive" teaching and training system for teachers with special characteristics of Jiaotong University, including "training for new teachers, training for teachers applying for courses, intensive training for new teachers, training for key teachers to improve their teaching ability, and training for reserve teachers". In 2018, he won the second prize of the National Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award. In recent years, the Teacher Teaching Development Index has been ranked among the top in the country, and the 2023 version of the index ranks sixth.
The cultivation of teachers' basic teaching skills is crucial. In the teacher training system, the first three stages of training focus on young teachers from entry to standing on the three-foot podium, create and implement the training model of "centralized training-special research-personalized customization-precise guidance", consolidate the two foundations of teachers' ideological and political quality and education and teaching ability through the teaching training of new teachers, strengthen teachers' teaching practice and teaching design ability through teaching qualification certification, and improve teachers' teaching competency and teaching development ability through intensive teaching training for new teachers. Since 2012, 2,594 new teachers, 1,952 teachers who have applied for teaching qualifications, and 915 new teachers have been fully trained. This practice has been learned and referenced by many domestic colleges and universities, and has become a "model demonstration" to lead the training of basic teaching skills of domestic teachers.
Relying on 11 famous teacher studios, the center has trained 170 national, provincial and school reserve teachers, which runs through the whole process of the growth of famous teachers. In the past five years, the school has added 7 national famous teachers, ranking among the best in the country. Jointly with 6 first-class universities to launch the National University Teacher Teaching Innovation Competition, create two tracks of tradition and innovation in the school, and vigorously promote teaching reform and innovation.
Promote the digital transformation of teaching and explore the future development of teachers' teaching
In the context of the digital transformation of education, the center has explored and formed a new model of teacher teaching development of "information technology driven, activity matrix support, virtual and real space integration, and quality evaluation guarantee" around platform construction and model innovation, and has promoted teacher training at a high level.
Construct a new type of grassroots organization for the teaching and development of teachers with a "combination of virtual and real", and consolidate the foundation for organizational construction. The university has built 11 studios for famous teachers, 6 sub-centers for teacher teaching development, and 11 virtual teaching and research departments, covering all teaching colleges related to basic courses. All national and provincial famous teachers in the school have established corresponding relationships with grassroots education and development organizations to play a leading and guiding role in teaching. Four colleges of science, engineering, liberal arts and medicine were selected to take the lead in the pilot trial to explore a new mechanism of grassroots education and development organizations to stimulate the vitality of teachers' teaching development.
In order to strengthen the guidance of the concept of digital transformation, the center held a series of activities for the digital and intelligent transformation of teaching to further strengthen the supply. Since 2022, a total of 18 presentations, seminars and workshops have been held, with a total of 2,006 participants. Implement the class schedule system and create a "five-in-one" activity matrix of "new ideas for Xianjiao teaching, I grow together with Xianjiao, teaching and academic 1+1, curriculum ideology and politics, and information technology into the classroom", which greatly enriches the connotation of the activity.
How to realize digital intelligence empowerment and further promote the digital transformation of teaching? The center actively creates a new space for three-dimensional integration, builds smart classrooms for teaching and development, attracts teachers from all over the school, and carries out 289 teaching activities; We will make every effort to upgrade the information platform of education and development, realize the five functions of "training, competition, teaching and research, consulting, and radiation", and build an interest group of "experts + teachers" to form a teaching community that breaks time and space and a ubiquitous community-based teaching development space.
Gather the regional education development community and open up a new track for internal and external integration and development
The center actively implements the relevant requirements of "playing an exemplary and leading role in the region and professional fields", builds a first-class regional education community, promotes the sharing of first-class resources, and fulfills its original mission with practical actions.
In the past 8 years since its establishment, 127 member schools have formed six major activity carriers, including "Famous Teachers in Western Universities", "High-quality Curriculum Training" and "Customized Teaching Ability Improvement Services", and held 379 activities to serve more than 60,000 teachers. While relying on the alliance platform to build an education and development community, it has explored and formed a teaching and training model of "on-campus exploration and training-off-campus display and exercise-return to school for advanced improvement", which effectively broadens the development path of teachers.
The university took the initiative to serve and integrate into the major national strategies of the Yellow River, and initiated the establishment of the Yellow River Basin University Alliance in December 2022 in conjunction with the "double first-class" universities in the Yellow River Basin, aiming to accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system around the implementation of the Outline of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development Plan, and make important contributions to promoting the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. At present, 97 member universities from 9 provinces have joined, giving full play to the "agglomeration-spillover" effect in a wider range of fields and at a higher level, and building a regional education development community.
In the future, the Teacher Teaching Development Center of Xi'an Jiaotong University will continue to be honest and innovative, answer the fundamental questions of "what to cultivate, how to cultivate people, and for whom to cultivate people" in the new era, work hard, carry out various tasks at a high level, and support the reform of school education and teaching and the construction of teachers with first-class teacher teaching development work.
*: China Education News.