With the development of society and the change of social demand for talents, our college adjusts the guiding ideology and school-running concept of adult higher education specialty in time. While adhering to the excellent educational tradition, we should actively absorb advanced modern educational concepts, and strive to build an open and forward-looking adult higher education system and a diversified and characteristic talent training model, so as to steadily improve the quality of education and comprehensively develop the quality of students.
Construction of teaching staff: After the introduction and training in recent years, the structure of professional titles, academic qualifications, professional structure and age structure of pedagogy teachers tends to be reasonable, and the quality of scientific research has been greatly improved.
There are 46 full-time teachers of pedagogy, including professor 10 (accounting for 0.73% of the total number of teachers), associate professor 17 (accounting for 36.96% of the total number of teachers) and 27 teachers with senior titles (accounting for 58.70% of the total number of teachers). 19 lecturer (41.30% of the total number of teachers); Among them, 17 people obtained doctoral degrees (accounting for 36.96% of the total number of teachers) and 28 people obtained master's degrees (accounting for 60.87% of the total number of teachers); There are 8 teachers over 45 years old (17.39%), 24 teachers aged 35-45 years old (52. 17%), and young teachers under 35 years old 14 (30.43%). On this basis, four teachers with doctoral degrees were introduced in 2008. 20 10 years, 1 people go to other schools to study for a doctorate.
Improvement of teaching conditions: since the establishment of the specialty, in order to strengthen the construction of brand specialty, the investment of the school in brand specialty construction is twice that of the provincial special subsidy. The first phase of matching funds, vocational and adult education college in February 2007 supporting construction funds of 30,000 yuan, education science college in March 2008 supporting construction funds of 60,000 yuan, the second phase of matching funds in place in the first half of 2009.
In terms of improving the basic conditions for running a school, the College of Educational Sciences invested more than 60,000 yuan to acquire four sets of multimedia teaching equipment, more than 20,000 yuan to buy a book, and the school invested more than 500,000 yuan to buy more than 20 sets of teaching instruments and equipment for pedagogy and psychology courses, which greatly improved the teaching conditions of this major.
Reform of teaching content and curriculum system. In recent years, the college has taken teachers' participation in the construction and application of top-quality courses as the main basis for teaching evaluation, especially the selection of excellent teaching quality awards. After several years' efforts, the college now has four excellent courses at or above the school level, among which educational psychology has won the characteristic course of provincial adult higher education.
Actively carry out the construction of multimedia curriculum resources, and all professional courses have multimedia teaching courseware to meet students' autonomous learning needs. All young teachers have received professional training in adult education and modern educational technology training, are familiar with the laws of adult education and can skillfully use modern educational technology.
In terms of textbook construction, according to our actual situation, the principles of textbook construction are determined: where there are prize-winning textbooks, "textbooks for 2 1 century" or "textbooks for the 11th Five-Year Plan", try to choose such textbooks or textbooks newly published in the last three years, and the proportion of textbooks published after 2007 accounts for 65%. Teachers are also encouraged to compile their own teaching materials according to the learning characteristics of adult students, and in the past three years, they have completed the research on the basic theoretical problems of adult education, the general situation of the development of adult education, and the sociological research on adult education.
Revision of syllabus and teaching plan: In recent three years, in order to adapt to social development and students' actual learning needs, all teachers have revised the syllabus again, and at the same time, in order to facilitate students' self-study, all courses have high-quality self-study guides that match the teaching materials.
Teaching management: In order to strengthen the teaching management of adult higher education and improve the teaching quality. Our college has carried out a series of reforms in the teaching management system. If teaching management continues to adhere to the responsibility system of the class teacher. The establishment of correspondence teachers' professional files makes the teaching management of adult higher education in our college step by step into a scientific, institutionalized and standardized development track, with orderly teaching management and increasingly remarkable teaching benefits.
Teaching quality: The education major has clear training objectives, effective work measures, solid students' basic theories and skills, and achieved good teaching results. Students' ideological and moral cultivation has been strengthened and their ideological quality has been significantly improved. By offering special lectures on ideological and political education and teachers' professional ethics education, giving full play to the geographical advantages of Confucius and Mencius' hometown and the edifying effect of civilized campus, our graduates have high ideological and moral quality and have been well received by all walks of life. According to the survey of 20 10 grade 154 correspondence students and employers in our school, 98.05% of them think that the political quality and professional quality of the correspondence students have been greatly improved after graduation, and they are satisfied or relatively satisfied with their current work, reaching100%; More than 99.35% of the students spoke highly of the professional teachers in our school, thinking that the correspondence management in our school is strict and they are generally satisfied with the quality of correspondence education in our school.