The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education held a press conference on June 5438+06, saying that as a supporting measure for this round of new curriculum reform in colleges and universities, the evaluation and appointment of professional titles in colleges and universities will be tilted towards teachers with excellent teaching work; The person in charge of colleges and universities also needs to carry out "teaching debriefing" every year, focusing on reporting and exchanging classroom teaching innovation, and bringing classroom teaching innovation into the teaching performance evaluation of colleges and universities as a key work.
"Teaching is the fundamental task of colleges and universities. We hope to promote teachers to pay more attention to classroom teaching and give full play to students' subjective initiative in learning. Wu Yongliang, spokesman of Zhejiang Education Department, said.
It is understood that at present, the proportion of elective credits in Zhejiang undergraduate colleges is 25% to 30%, and that in higher vocational colleges is 15% to 20%. After the increase in the proportion of elective credits, Zhejiang requires colleges and universities to establish a course withdrawal mechanism, eliminate "water injection" courses in time, and focus on building a professional core course that is popular with students, namely "Tiger Course".
In addition, Zhejiang requires to increase the proportion of small class teaching in the total class hours, and it is planned that by July, small class teaching in colleges and universities will account for more than 40% of the total class hours. "Small class teaching means that the focus of classroom teaching should be changed from imparting knowledge to cultivating ability." Han Jian, director of the Higher Education Department of Zhejiang Education Department, said that classroom teaching in colleges and universities will be divided into classes, with lectures in the big class and seminars in the small class, so as to change students' passive learning into active learning.
This round of new curriculum reform in Zhejiang has also put forward the timetable of "hierarchical teaching", which requires that by July, the courses of hierarchical and classified teaching account for more than 40% of the current total. Han Jian said that the purpose of grading the same course according to its professional nature, training direction and degree of difficulty is to help students choose the learning level according to their interests, learning ability and career orientation, so as to achieve the goal of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude.