From March 25 to April 9, the Center for Faculty Development of Jiangsu University undertook the “Teaching Innovation Competition Training” on campus. The Training was organized in response to the call of the National University Faculty Teaching Innovation Competition, and for the purpose of providing comprehensive information for competitors and getting well prepared for the coming competition. Feng Xu and Wang Zhigang, members of the University Training Team, gave lectures at the training camp. Zhang Xiaojun of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, the founder of the National University Faculty Teaching Innovation Competition, was invited to give online guidance. The training added up to 78 person-times.
The three topics of this Training are: 1) teaching concept, that is how to present the highlights of teaching innovation; 2) teaching design, involving how to innovate teaching design and integrate ideological and political elements into the course; 3) the sharing of competition experience, which covers the preparation and on-site demonstration of the innovation competition.
The National University Faculty Teaching Innovation Competition is a national competition sponsored by the Higher Education Department of the Chinese Ministry of Education and undertaken by the Chinese Society of Higher Education. The theme of the competition is “promoting the teaching innovation and creating first-class courses”, and the concrete goals include “implementing the principle of undergraduate courses-based education, promoting the action of professors giving classroom instruction to students, and creating the intelligent education and strengthening the learning community”. The Competition is not only an important starting point for classroom instruction reform in the new era, but also an important opportunity to promote the reform and innovation of undergraduate education of Jiangsu University.
The University attaches great importance to the leading role of this competition, hoping that the faculty will take the opportunity to actively explore new ways of classroom instruction reform, truly change the teaching concept and mode, stir up the inner passion of students for learning, activate the transformation of classroom instruction from teaching-centered to students-centered, effectively improve their teaching capability, and promote the quality of talent cultivation of the University.
