On April 8, the final of the Third Zhejiang Province College Teachers’ Teaching Innovation Competition, which was guided by Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education and led by Zhejiang Higher Education Society, was successfully concluded in Zhejiang University. A total of 269 teachers (teams) from 57 colleges and universities in the province participated in this competition. After fierce competition, the teachers (teams) recommended by Taizhou University won one first prize, one second prize and three third prizes. Among them, Ms. Chen Yuefen from the School of Electronics and Information Engineering won the first prize in the new engineering category, which was a breakthrough for our university in this competition.

Ms. Chen Yuefen from the School of Electronics and Information Engineering

The university attaches great importance to this event and has carefully planned and organized preparation for it. The Teaching Administration Department started the teacher selection through holding a university-level competition last November, and has carried out school selection and recommendation, online preliminary evaluation, university-level competition, special training, recommendation of candidates for provincial competition and performance improvement. In order to improve teachers’ teaching innovation ability, the Teacher Development Center (TDC) held a series of activities themed on “Teaching Innovation Competition Training Camp” and special training lectures tailored for the competition, and invited many experts from inside and outside the university, including university teaching supervisor Cai Peiyang, to conduct several rounds of competition instruction and material polishing, providing strong support and service for the participating teachers.

Since the launch of the university-level competition, the faculty members have responded enthusiastically, with a total of 35 teachers participating in the competition. The TDC will continue to improve the clout and appeal of the competition, making it an important platform for young and middle-aged teachers to improve their teaching ability and a “reservoir” and “resource pool” to continuously cultivate renowned teachers and courses.

It is reported that the organizing committee of the competition organized experts to conduct online evaluation and finally determined 103 participating teachers (teams) as finalists in the provincial competition. The competition was divided into 6 categories, namely, the construction of new engineering, new agriculture, new medicine and new humanities, basic curriculum, ideological and political education, each of which was further classified into three sub-categories according to the professional and technical titles of the participating teachers, that is, professors, associate professors, and lecturers and below, totaling 18 subcategories. After fierce competition, 18 teams were awarded first prizes, 26 teams second prizes, 58 teams third prizes and 25 universities excellent organization prizes.

Written and photographed by Chen Nan / Reviewed by Jin Linghong / Duty editor: Jin Rouya