The concept of vocational education is "service-oriented, employment-oriented, and promoting education and teaching reform". In the past, in the old "three-stage" teaching method, students studied passively and teachers mainly explained knowledge. In the vocational skill competition, the comprehensive strength of students is the main evaluation criterion to measure vocational ability by the completion of post tasks. The concept of education and teaching has undergone a fundamental change, which makes the cultivation of vocational ability and the formation of comprehensive quality in vocational education more pragmatic. An important content of vocational education reform is to change and update the concept of vocational education and actively adapt to the requirements of employment and vocational skills, which objectively conforms to the current concept and thought of vocational education. The development of skill competition has effectively updated the concept of teachers' vocational education. Vocational education is employment education, and vocational education cultivates skilled talents, so the teaching content must be practical. Through the documents issued by the organizing committee of the Learning Skills Competition, and by visiting the production line of enterprises, experts from enterprises are invited to give on-site guidance and learn the contents of the competition day, which clearly shows the basic technical knowledge and practical skills that students in vocational schools must master, as well as the depth and breadth of the required skills. At the same time, it helps vocational schools solve the reasons why teaching is out of line with actual needs, clarify the degree of teaching content, and enhance the pertinence and practicability of teaching.
(B) the impact of skills competition on teachers' professional ability
The goal of vocational education is to cultivate high-quality skilled professionals with good professional ability, and vocational school teachers are the concrete implementers of this goal. Teachers' practical skills and practical teaching ability are related to students' professional quality and ability.
Judging from the experience of many teachers leading the competition in Zhangjiagang, it is obvious that professional teachers leading the competition can improve teachers' teaching ability. For a long time, there has been a phenomenon in China's higher vocational colleges that knowledge learning is more important than skill training. The proportion of basic courses and specialized courses is higher than that of skill operation courses. Many schools lack training bases and professional equipment. Even if there is training, it only stays in the simulation stage, which is far from the requirements of enterprises. Vocational skill competition is a good platform to promote teachers' skill learning. If teachers want to achieve good results in the competition, they must master skilled professional skills, change from simply completing teaching tasks to cooperating with enterprises to develop projects, take students for internships, and truly turn knowledge into skills. By organizing teachers to directly participate in and guide students to participate in skill competitions, teachers are urged to fully grasp the training needs of employers for high-quality skilled personnel and the skills requirements of related professional posts, update teaching concepts and improve teaching methods in time, and make vocational education truly move towards practice, enterprises and society.
In addition, teachers guide students to participate in vocational skills competitions, and schools will also organize some training, so that teachers will be exposed to many new equipment and skills, thus improving teachers' abilities and broadening their horizons. After participating in the skills competition, the teaching effect has also been significantly improved. Among the teachers surveyed, after participating in the skills competition, more than 98% teachers' teaching effect has been significantly improved, and 82% teachers' teaching evaluation has improved from good to excellent.
(c) Skills Competition for Teachers' Skills Requirements
Vocational skill competition needs teachers to become innovative teachers. There are many kinds of skill competitions in vocational colleges, but to win these competitions, we must have innovative spirit, which often requires the guidance of innovative teachers. As an innovative teacher, we should have an open mind and vision, and be good at seeking difference and innovation; Be good at thinking and studying, dare to try to study the problems existing in practical operation, or lead students to study and explore together in practice; Pay attention to the latest technology and trends in the development of enterprises in related industries and pass the latest technical information to students in time; We should actively encourage students' new ideas and help them realize the development process from conceptual innovation to practical exploration. Students' creative quality will be displayed through skill competition, and teachers' creativity will be reflected through students' creative performance. At the same time, teachers can effectively improve students' creative quality through continuous exploration of creative teaching.
In the professional skills test of teachers before and after the competition, the skill level and innovation ability have been improved to a certain extent after participating in the skill competition, mainly because teachers often go deep into enterprises, learn the most cutting-edge skills and accept the latest ideas.
Second, the skill competition promotes the development of students' quality.
(A) skills competition to improve students' professional quality
The orientation and goal of cultivating students in higher vocational colleges are very clear. They train professional and technical personnel in the production line to serve the social and economic construction and development. The work goal is to complete each task with high quality and high efficiency, and have corresponding comprehensive quality. Vocational skill competition is of guiding significance to the guidance of students' professional quality. The communication ability, teamwork ability, enterprise management concept and innovative spirit required by professional quality can be fully reflected in the competition. Only by tacit cooperation and mastering personal professional skills can the team do a good job and complete the task.
The various professional fields involved in the skills competition have integrated advanced educational concepts at home and abroad. On the premise of ensuring students' sufficient knowledge theory, the latest teaching methods and training means are adopted to gradually shift from knowledge combination learning to professional and corporate culture infiltration learning. Students change from passive learning to active learning and mastery. Determine your own goals in career planning, master good learning methods, learn to integrate and utilize various social learning resources, especially improve the application of modern information network technology, and have the ability to discover and screen the latest skills and technologies and master them quickly.
(B) Skills competition to enhance students' employability
Students' professional competition consciousness can be fully displayed in the competition. Good competition results are guaranteed by solid training, high comprehensive quality and psychological quality. Students participating in the competition personally realized that details determine success or failure, and their grades are influenced by professional knowledge, skills, comprehensive ability and psychological quality. If you can't make too many mistakes in the game, you must control the rhythm of the game, not be influenced by the outside world, and complete every movement seriously. The operation should be orderly and calm, and never give up lightly until the last moment. It not only cultivates students' serious working attitude, but also forms their tenacious fighting spirit and competitive consciousness. The curriculum construction of vocational college students' employability also has many connotations that adapt to the society. As long as they are selected at the provincial level, they are all first-line high-skilled professionals employed by employers, and their employment quality is quite high. Vocational schools also follow the example of these excellent students who have achieved good results, guide other students to master professional knowledge and cultivate their own abilities, so as to enter the society and serve enterprises after graduation and realize "zero distance" employment.
Through the analysis of the questionnaire survey report of some contestants in Zhangjiagang city, it is concluded that the students who participated in the competition were originally students with good academic performance, strong practical ability and good psychological quality. After intensive training organized by the school, they participated in expert lectures of industry enterprises, accepted a lot of new knowledge and mastered a lot of new skills. After intensive training, these students will greatly improve their knowledge structure, skill level, teamwork ability and psychological quality. After the national competition, we will compete with the players from the brother colleges, learn from each other's strong points and exchange learning. Their level is very different from that of the students who did not take part in the competition. These students are more favored by internship companies, and demand is often in short supply. In the follow-up survey of the graduates of the 20th13rd class, the results show that the evaluation of the students who participated in the skills competition by the employer is 100%, which is significantly higher than the 92% who did not participate in the skills competition. The main reason is that these students are obviously superior in comprehensive quality, teamwork ability and skill level.
Third, the impact of vocational skills competition on school-enterprise cooperation and training base construction.
While the results of the vocational skills competition are recognized by employers, employers also pay more attention to the needs of contestants, award-winning students, especially skilled professionals in the use of human resources. Employers in many industries and enterprises take the initiative to contact vocational colleges to find talents from the source of education and training, put forward cooperation intentions, and use the platform of school teaching resources to select outstanding graduates. From this, we will establish a cooperative relationship, build a productive training base on campus, and provide an off-campus practice base to ensure that the school will practice for six months to one year.
The training base jointly built by schools and enterprises can provide social training research and high-quality technical training services for the industry. Achieve a win-win situation between schools and enterprises. Most of the national skill competitions take several enterprise brands as the competition platform, which has industry demonstration significance, so the content of competition projects is based on the working process, and a certain proportion of basic training projects are determined. For the reform of professional courses, the construction of practice and practice teaching standards, there is a practical teaching construction goal that comes from enterprise production and is higher than enterprise production, which is a good guarantee for solidifying students' practical ability and improving employment rate.
The entry items of skills competition are often based on the actual needs of enterprises, and these are usually provided by school-enterprise cooperation units and trained in training bases. In the process of skill competition training, the training base is the best place for skill training. Therefore, in order to achieve good results, all participating schools have purchased advanced equipment and accelerated the upgrading of training base equipment. On the other hand, the acceleration of training base construction has promoted the improvement of teachers' and students' skills, so the skills competition and the development of vocational schools complement each other and promote each other. In 20 1 1 year, zhangjiagang invested a lot of money to participate in a number of national vocational skills competitions, which improved the hardware conditions of the training room, ensured the athletes to achieve excellent results in national competitions, greatly improved the teaching level of teachers, and laid a solid foundation for cultivating high-quality skilled talents. In the past six years, it has won 18 gold medals and 3 silver medals in national competitions, far ahead of the county-level cities in the province.
The skill competition is not only a test for the contestants, but also a consideration for the skill training base. Many schools have found the gap of teachers and the problems of teaching materials through competitions, which have prescribed the right medicine, accelerated the rectification and promoted the school's infrastructure work. Skills competition urges schools to attach great importance to the improvement of experimental training conditions. If the school wants students to master the practical skills necessary for first-line production, the training base must be close to the actual production. On the one hand, the school should increase the investment in training equipment and gradually build a miniaturized training "factory"; on the other hand, it should establish a stable training base among the employment groups, so that teaching can be closely linked with the actual production process.
Fourth, summary.
In a word, the vocational skills competition has greatly promoted the construction of teachers, students' professional quality and employability in vocational schools, and promoted the cooperation between schools and enterprises and the construction of training bases. In the future, China Vocational Skills Competition will further enhance the influence of vocational education in China, point out the direction for the development of vocational education, and provide enterprises with skilled talents that they really need.