Second, a brief introduction to Hubei Second Normal University
Hubei Second Normal University is located in Wuhan, Hubei Province, which is the thoroughfare of nine provinces. It is a provincial-level ordinary undergraduate college with teacher education as its main feature and supported by disciplines such as pedagogy, science, engineering, literature, management and art, and it is one of the important bases of teacher education in Hubei Province. The school's predecessor was Hubei Institute of Education founded in 193 1. In 2003 and 2009, Hubei Technical School and Hubei Economic Management Cadre College merged as a whole. In 2007, it was restructured and renamed Hubei Second Normal University, and passed the undergraduate teaching qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education on 20 12. Hubei Province's primary and secondary school teacher training management institutions-Hubei General Education Cadre Training Center and Hubei Primary and Secondary School Teachers' Continuing Education Center are located in schools, which play an important role in serving and leading the reform and development of basic education in the province. Since its establishment more than 80 years ago, the school has trained nearly 200,000 outstanding graduates and made outstanding contributions to basic education and regional economic and social development.
The school is located in the core area of China Optics Valley, with beautiful scenery and convenient transportation. Campus area 17 18 mu, with a building area of 437,000 square meters. Second-level college 15, 52 undergraduate majors, full-time students15,000 people. At present, there are 763 full-time teachers, including 343 teachers with senior titles and 224 teachers with doctoral degrees. 8 1 Teachers are employed as tutors for master students in Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Huazhong Normal University and other universities, and enjoy the State Council allowance, provincial government allowance and 15 honorary title of National Excellent Teacher. External high-level talents are 7 1 person, including 2 academicians of Chinese academy of sciences, 2 academicians and chutian scholar 15.
The school adheres to the development direction of "holding high the banner of teacher education, taking the road of application development, and cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial talents" and constructing a distinctive application-oriented talent training system. At present, there are five national and provincial comprehensive professional reform pilot projects, eight strategic emerging (pillar) industry talent training programs, Jingchu outstanding talent collaborative education program, 1 provincial pilot colleges, 1 provincial key experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 6 provincial practical training bases, 16 national and provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers. It was rated as "National Model School of Language Standardization". We will hold experimental classes of teaching reform, such as Xingzhi experimental class, compound talent experimental class and innovative talent experimental class, so as to continuously improve the quality of talent training. In the past three years, students have won 3 17 awards in various national discipline competitions, among which they won the gold medal in the "Creating Youth" national college students' entrepreneurship competition. Since 2008, it has jointly trained professional masters with Huazhong Normal University, Hubei Normal University and other universities.
The school adheres to the provincial-level advantage and characteristic subject cluster of teacher education as the leader, and combines the needs of basic education and regional economic and social development to build six subject clusters: teacher education, information technology, emerging industries and regional economy, bioengineering, new material engineering and cultural creativity. At present, it has three provincial-level key disciplines, namely pedagogy, applied economics and computer science and technology, six "Chutian Scholars" disciplines and Hubei Key Laboratory for Purification and Application of Plant Anticancer Active Substances, Hubei University-enterprise Joint Research and Development Center for New High-performance Environmental Protection Wall Materials, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Basic Education Information Technology Services, Hubei Education Cloud Service Engineering and Technology Research Center, and expert workstation of Hubei Terahertz and Photoelectricity Institute. In recent years, the school has won 39 national self-taught examination funds and social science fund projects, 22 scientific research projects such as the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, more than 500 provincial-level projects such as provincial government intellectual achievement procurement projects, provincial science and technology department support projects, provincial self-taught examination funds and social science fund projects, more than 0/00 provincial science and technology progress awards, 8 provincial social science awards, patent authorization and software works copyright. Gravitational waves were first detected in February, 2065438+2006. Dr. Fan Xilong, a young school teacher, is one of the core members of the international scientific research team. Many achievements have produced great economic and social benefits in the application.
The school has carried out extensive international exchanges and cooperation, and established cooperative relations with more than 20 universities and scientific research institutions in the United States, Britain, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Kazakhstan and other countries. There are Chinese-foreign cooperative education projects such as electronic information science and technology, computer science and technology and hotel management. At the same time, college students are sent abroad to participate in study tours, social practice projects or short-term internships every year. The school is a university designated by the Provincial Department of Education to send overseas volunteers of Chinese teachers. It is a national Hanban high-quality student source school, which sends outstanding students overseas to teach Chinese as a foreign language every year.
In recent years, the school has comprehensively strengthened party building, and all work has shown a good development trend. It has been rated as "provincial civilized unit" and "provincial comprehensive management (safe construction) excellent unit". The school will adhere to the motto of "learning high, integrity, honesty and practicality", adhere to the school-running concept of "integrity and talent, student-oriented", concentrate on tackling difficulties, and strive to build an application-oriented normal university with distinctive characteristics to provide talent and technical support for regional basic education and economic and social development.