CWU Holds Closing Ceremony for 7th Basic Skill Contest

China Women's University (CWU) held a closing ceremony for its 7th Basic Skill Contest for Young Teachers in April. CWU President Liu Liqun; Liu Qianghua, deputy secretary of CWU Council; and CWU Vice-Presidents Wang Lian, Liu Meng, and Wang Jingxia participated in the event.

Attendees also included some 300 teachers and middle-level cadres from different schools and departments.

Shou Jingxin, leader of CWU's Supervisory Group, evaluated the lessons from different divisions, including teaching content, teaching style, performance methods and teaching plan. While highly affirming the overall performance of the teachers, Shou gave concrete suggestions on classroom interaction, courseware design, blackboard writing standards, time allocation and other issues.

The first prize winners of the contest gave lectures on language integration, Chinese tai chi and mathematical modeling. Their exquisite coursework, dignified manners, great passion and meticulous classroom design were highly appreciated by the attendees. They showed a good professional quality and solid teaching skills. 

Zhao Ruhan, a teacher from the Communication University of China (CUC), participated in the gathering and gave a model lesson. 

Zhao shared her experiences of participating in different competitions, talked about details of the contests in an animated way and created a truly immersive experience for the attendees.

Li Mang, a professor from the Teaching Capacity Development Center of Beijing Normal University, highly appraised CWU's model of demonstration classes and thought the contest was a good platform for improving teaching equality.

Li analyzed the basic skills of teaching from five aspects of university teachers, scholars, performers, doctors and practitioners. According to his theory of "six degrees", that is, difficulty, depth, breadth, height, intensity and temperature, Li shared his teaching experiences and analyzed the concrete steps of undergraduate education. His infectious performance and professional comments impressed all the participants.

During the ceremony, those leaders in attendance presented awards to the young teachers. The judges recommended one of the winners, Lu Ping, to participate in the upcoming Beijing Municipal Competition for Young Teachers on behalf of the university. 

Liu Liqun congratulated the success of the event and sincerely thanked all the faculties, contestants, judges, co-sponsors, experts and scholars for their collaboration and efforts. 

Liu emphasized that CWU has build such a platform to continuously promote young teachers' teaching quality, improve teaching methods and build up the ranks of teachers.

Focused on how to take the opportunity of the evaluation work of undergraduate education and comprehensively improve CWU's teaching quality, Liu said classroom teaching is one of the most important parts of undergraduate education. 

The mission and responsibility of higher education is talent cultivation. As a common undergraduate university, classroom teaching is one of our most basic and most important educational positions. CWU is about to see the key link of the evaluation work, Liu said.

All the teachers should fully demonstrate the beauty of languages, sports and logic, as well as, actively lead students to innovate and explore unknown areas. Higher education is a key factor in a country's development potential, it is urgent for universities to improve the quality of their higher education, Liu added.

As higher education shoulders the major responsibility of cultivating successors for the socialist cause, it must adhere to correct political orientation. All the teachers should take the responsibility of leading advanced gender culture, strengthening students' knowledge of common sense and enhance the construction of ideological and political education, organizers said.

Hailing the contributions made by college staff involved in undergraduate education, Liu called for more efforts to foster qualified teachers, cultivate first-class talent and build CWU as a first tier women's university.

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and Edited by Gender Study Network)