Our Teachers Grabbed Awards in the Second Shanghai Collegiate Teaching Innovation Competition

Lately Shanghai Municipal Education Commission released the list of winners of the Second Shanghai Collegiate Teaching Innovation Competition. One special award and two first prizes went to our university. All the three teachers recommended by our university stood out from the fierce competition. Among them, Chai Yuan, a young teacher from College of Mathematics and Physics, won the special award in the competition exclusively for those with intermediate professional titles and below from the local universities. As the first teacher of our university to run for the national contest, she will go in for the national competition to be held next on behalf of Shanghai. Wang Yufei, a professor from the College of Electrical Engineering, grabbed the first prize in the competition exclusively for those with senior professional titles from local colleges and universities. Yet Zhang Kai, a teacher from the College of Computer Science and Technology, won the first prize in the competition exclusively for those with associate professional titles from the local colleges and universities. Meanwhile the outstanding organization award went to our university too.

The Second Shanghai Collegiate Teaching Innovation Competition was officially launched in November 2021 with the theme of promoting teaching innovation and training first-class talents, which is intended to focus on establishing a high-quality educational system and impel the teaching reform oriented to higher education, to effectively help the four innovations construction, to speed up the integration and innovative development of information technology, education and teaching, to navigate the ideological and political courses in all aspects to go further in the same way so that a platform to display teaching innovation and to conduct communication will be carefully built for college teachers.

105 teachers in total from 37 colleges and universities (some are universities directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education and others local universities) participated in the competition. The recorded videos of the real teaching in the classroom and reports of the teaching results were respectively reviewed online and the reports about the teaching innovation design were examined on the spot by the judging panel, and all were checked by the Municipal Education Commission. Eventually 12 special prizes (6 of them to local colleges and universities), 38 first prizes (32 of them to local ones), 55 second prizes (40 of them to local colleges and university), and 15 outstanding organization awards were conferred to the concerned parties.

The university attached great importance to this competition with a well-designed plan in advance and an extensive mobilization among the teaching staffs. Since the contest was launched in mid-November 2021, we spared no pains to prepare for the college-based and university-based competition, and finally three teachers have been selected and recommended to participate in the Municipality-based competition. While the contestants prepared for the tournament, the Office of Academic Affairs, in cooperation with all the concerned colleges, intentionally formed a team of experts to offer them special guidance and training, and held a series of activities for them to take special training and make gradual improvement, which has laid a solid foundation for them to stand out from the competition.

The university took this event as a golden opportunity to integrate the conception of teaching innovation into the educational practice and teaching reform so that the radiation effect of the competition would be achieved. By taking this completion as a stimulus to improve teaching, to encourage all to learn and conduct academic studies, and to seek innovation, the university intended to appeal all the teaching staffs to devote themselves to the educational cause and to create a benign atmosphere for higher education. With a deepening curriculum reform and innovation at this university, a higher-quality development is believed to be made.

 

Contributor: Office of Academic Affairs