Never let the top students of prestigious schools overuse their talents! National Excellent Program: Let Famous Schools Train Famous Teachers
The Ministry of Education recently issued the "Opinions on Implementing the National Excellent Primary and Secondary School Teacher Training Plan". Starting from 2023, it will organize "Double First Class" construction universities to recruit "National Excellent Primary and Secondary School Teacher Training Plan" graduate students through recommendation or secondary selection for current graduate students. While strengthening professional learning, the system will also offer teacher education module courses to cultivate a group of excellent teachers with excellent professional literacy and solid teaching basic skills for primary and secondary schools.
Why implement the "National Excellent Plan" in prestigious schools? Is it a waste of talent to have students from prestigious schools teach in primary and secondary schools? How do prestigious schools cultivate renowned teachers? On the issue of the "National Excellent Plan" that is of social concern, the reporter interviewed relevant officials and education experts from the education department, training universities, etc.
Supporting prestigious schools to cultivate renowned teachers
Half Moon Talk on Ren Youqun: High level universities such as normal universities and comprehensive universities are part of the Chinese characteristic teacher education system. The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of Teacher Team Construction in the New Era" issued in 2018 specifically proposes to support high-level comprehensive universities in carrying out teacher education. At present, there are over 700 colleges and universities in China that offer teacher training programs, and over 500 colleges and universities that offer teacher training programs outside of teacher training programs. Although the number is large, the level of education varies, especially with insufficient participation from high-level colleges and universities.
In reality, it is not news that graduates from top universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University enter primary and secondary schools to teach, but music education may not necessarily be naturally suitable for teaching. Graduates from prestigious schools also need to cultivate and train their educational and teaching abilities. The implementation of the "National Excellent Plan" means organizing high-level universities represented by "Double First Class" construction universities, undertaking the task of cultivating primary and secondary school teachers, exploring new paths for cultivating high-quality primary and secondary school teachers, forming a certain scale and leading the development direction, deepening the reform of the training mode for primary and secondary school teachers, strengthening the training of high-quality primary and secondary school teachers at the graduate level in an organized manner, promoting the continuous improvement and optimization of the Chinese characteristic teacher education system, and continuously improving the quality of teacher training.
Wen Dongmao: "The National Excellent Plan" is a fundamental and supportive specific action plan proposed to achieve the strategy of revitalizing the country through science and education and strengthening the country through talent, in the increasingly complex and severe international environment where China's scientific and technological innovation must move from following and imitating to primitive innovation. The "National Excellent Program" aims to leverage the academic advantages of high-level comprehensive universities, especially in the field of science and engineering, to cultivate a group of high-level science teachers who not only understand scientific research laws, but also have profound educational sentiments and solid teaching abilities, making them the "elite companies" in China's teaching team to overcome difficulties. This "elite battalion" has a small size of only about 1000 people per year, but it bears the heavy responsibility of cultivating truly outstanding innovative talents and future scientists.
Half Moon Talk with Ren Youqun: Basic education is the foundation of building an educational powerhouse, and primary and secondary school teachers are the sowers and caregivers of scientific seeds in children's hearts. The first batch of pilot organizations under the "National Excellent Plan" focus on cultivating science course teachers in primary and secondary schools in some comprehensive universities, science and engineering universities, and other key universities under the "Double First Class" construction. This is aimed at deepening the implementation of the strategy of revitalizing the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talent, and driving development through innovation, with the aim of strengthening teachers and teaching, and consolidating the foundation for independent cultivation of top-notch innovative talents.
Comprehensive universities should shoulder the responsibility of cultivating renowned teachers
Half Moon Talk on Wen Dongmao: Are primary and secondary school teachers just "little users"? If one is just a teacher, guiding students to practice questions, scoring high in the college entrance examination, and ranking in competitions, it is indeed just a small use; If primary and secondary school teachers truly shoulder the mission of preaching, educating, cultivating national builders and successors, and taking on the responsibility of cultivating truly outstanding innovative talents and future scientists, how can it be a small use?
Of course, such teachers should not only possess outstanding scientific research abilities and solid educational and teaching basic skills, but also have the ideal of building an education strong country, innovative educational concepts, and the courage to break educational norms. They should be able to fully explore, protect, and stimulate students' curiosity, thirst for knowledge, and creativity, and cultivate more innovative talents through their creative work.
Cultivating such teachers is precisely the original intention and mission of the National Excellent Program. For high-level comprehensive universities, this is not a case of overusing talents, but also a glorious task full of challenges.
From a Western perspective, Oxford University and Cambridge University in the UK, Harvard University and Stanford University in the United States generally have the responsibility of cultivating teachers. Since the establishment of modern education system in our country, in the early days, separate normal schools and universities were mainly established to cultivate new types of teachers. Some comprehensive universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Southeast University also participated. In recent years, comprehensive universities have participated in teacher training in China, which was implemented in the past two years in comprehensive universities such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Nanjing University.
Wang Linyuan: As a pioneer in providing teacher education for high-level comprehensive universities, the School of Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University was established in November 2020. The college takes it as its responsibility to cultivate outstanding teachers who are oriented towards the future, and has carried out some practice in teacher education. It has explored and formed the "Jiaotong University Plan" in terms of curriculum, system, and mode.
We have pioneered a new model of "3+3" teacher education and training, building a collaborative education system between universities and secondary schools. The first "3" is the tripartite integration of the Education College, Discipline College, and Practice Base, while the second "3" is the collaborative education and guidance of a team of three mentors: Education Mentors, Discipline Mentors, and Practice Mentors. Specifically, during the two and a half years of master's studies, students will receive education related professional courses and characteristic courses offered by the Education College, while the Discipline College will teach professional courses in subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. Teaching skills will be trained and learned in the middle school practice base, and each student will receive collaborative guidance from three mentors with different focuses. Unlike normal universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University implements a one-year and full-time educational internship, allowing students to experience the complete education, teaching, and management of a high school throughout the entire process and in all aspects.
To cultivate students' innovative qualities, we also make full use of the school's advantageous resources and cooperate deeply with the "National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base" - Student Innovation Center, encouraging students to participate in interdisciplinary education and practical activities such as experience science and technology innovation competitions during winter and summer vacations, improving their scientific and engineering literacy, and cultivating interdisciplinary curriculum design and practical skills.
Facing the challenges of future social development to education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has always been thinking about the development trend of basic education in the future and the demand for teaching staff capacity. We adhere to a problem oriented and goal oriented approach, and in the context of the era of intelligent education, we conduct research on the development trends of curriculum design, educational teaching concepts and methods, creating eight characteristic curriculum modules such as "mental health education", "future education", and "art education", so that students can enrich their hearts and grow their abilities, and prepare for future educational changes.
Encourage and support graduates to truly teach in primary and secondary schools
Half moon talk about being too holy: This really needs to be considered. We should build a bridge between the present and the future for them during the training process, so that they can have a more sense of direction during their graduate studies.
Firstly, play the important role of teacher educators and continuously strengthen the teacher identity of graduate students in the National Excellent Program. Although these graduate students were aware of the policy objectives of the National Excellent Program from the beginning, they still need to continuously strengthen their curriculum teaching and practical activities, making primary and secondary school teachers an important identification for them, and continuously enhancing their recognition of this identity.
Secondly, leverage the exemplary role of role models to guide graduate students in their career planning under the National Excellent Program. Excellent primary and secondary school teachers can be invited to serve as their practical mentors, setting a professional development model that they aspire to, allowing them to feel the happiness of these mentors being loved and filled with love and wealth, thereby strengthening their confidence in teaching and planning their career path with dedication.
Thirdly, deepen cooperation with high-quality employers and implement "order based training" with high satisfaction. Employers can establish scholarships for graduate students under the "National Excellent Program" in universities to attract them to carry out practical teaching activities, and encourage both parties to engage in "order based training" cooperation based on in-depth understanding.
Half month talk about Zheng Xiuyu: Graduates from prestigious schools may not necessarily become famous teachers. In recent years, Shenzhen has introduced many outstanding graduates from prestigious schools to the front line of teaching, accumulating experience in the four word formula of "breeding and management" in this regard.
One is to select the best among the best. During the recruitment of fresh graduates, written tests and interviews are organized to assess their professional knowledge in the subject, and interviews are conducted to assess their teaching beliefs, professional potential, and comprehensive qualities; The second is to cultivate meticulously, through methods such as internship and on-the-job training, pre service general education training, and post service targeted training, to guide new teachers to cultivate a strong sense of education, improve teaching ability, and quickly stand on the podium; The third is to use appropriate materials, fully leverage the professional advantages of outstanding graduates from prestigious schools, provide diverse development opportunities, and enable them to showcase their strengths and talents to the fullest; The fourth is to strictly manage, establish relevant systems, and put forward specific requirements and quantitative evaluations for teacher preparation, teaching assistance, and exam reform. Graduates from the "National Excellent Program" have received systematic education and teaching professional training, and local and primary and secondary schools have consciously cultivated them, believing that they can quickly grow in education and teaching positions.
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