From March 18th to 19th, NENU’s 2022 (5th) “Creative Education” demonstration class exhibition was held in the School of Politics and Law of Jingyue Campus.
With the theme of “Creating Smart Classrooms and Building Golden Courses of NENU”, the activity showcased the collaborative quality improvement plan of Northeast Normal University and the Ministry of Education. NENU organized a group to participate in 26 classes of Baicheng Normal University, Mudanjiang Normal University and Yili Normal University. The activity invited Professor Ma Yunpeng from the Faculty of Education of NENU, Professor Gao Yuqiu from the College of Arts, Professor Bin Chen from the School of Chemistry, Professor Li Yangguang, and Professor Yin Kuijie from the School of Politics and Law as resident evaluation experts, and the heads of 19 schools (departments) serve as rotating experts. At the same time, the school also invited four student representatives as observers to participate in the evaluation of class effect.
Wei Min, director of the Academic Affairs Office of NENU, gave a speech at the opening ceremony. He said that NENU’s “creative education” demonstration class aims to thoroughly implement the fundamental task of educating people, practice the concept of “creative education”, strengthen the educational function of courses and create first-class undergraduate courses. The exhibition activities of the demonstration class have been carried out for five consecutive years, and a total of 526 demonstration classes have been built, covering 18.87% of the total number of undergraduate classes, giving full play to the leading role and effectively promoting the continuous improvement of teaching quality. He hopes that the lecturer can implement the process inquiry teaching mode that pays attention to the change of knowledge form, promote the construction of students’ knowledge acquisition and the development of their thinking in active inquiry, and realize the cultivation of students’ creativity in the process of “knowledge re-creation”.
This year’s demonstration class activities still adhere to the characteristics of “online and offline observation+online lectures with students+smart studying space”, including three parts: on-site teaching, teaching-plan presentation and expert comments, and attracting nearly 170,000 online views. The 26 classes participating in the exhibition covered 19 schools (departments) of the whole school, and the participants included 8 professors, 13 associate professors and 5 lecturers. The teaching goal of exhibition class is “value shaping, ability training and knowledge imparting”, which advocates student-centered and problem-oriented pedagogic doctrine. On the basis of emphasizing the high-order, innovation and challenge of the course, it pays more attention to its generative features.
After the exhibition, Professor Ma Yunpeng, the leader of the expert group, made comments on behalf of the judging expert group. He believes that this year’s demonstration class activities highlight teachers’ creative teaching design, focus on students’ development, embody the characteristics of teacher education, and promote the class teaching reform in Baicheng Normal University, Mudanjiang Normal University, Yili Normal University and other universities, promote the teaching reform and development of higher education, and promote the improvement of teachers’ professional quality and students’ scientific quality.
NENU’s “creative education” demonstration class activities have attracted the attention of the leaders of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the Provincial Department of Education and have been fully affirmed. Based on our experience, the Education Department of Jilin Province entrusted NENU to undertake the first Jilin Smart Class Teaching Innovation Competition and the first Jilin Normal School Teaching Innovation Competition. “One classroom leads to two competitions” effectively promotes the reform of the class teaching and innovation in the province. The measures of NENU to carry out demonstration class construction and deepen undergraduate teaching reform were publicized and reported by People’s Daily, Guangming Daily and other media.
(From News Center, translated by Wei Jia, revised by Liu Lixin)