Teaching is the central work of colleges and universities. Teaching management has always been a very important part of college management, and every college attaches great importance to it. However, many colleges and universities attach importance to the management of teaching work and ignore the people engaged in management work; Pay attention to system construction and ignore human construction. Based on the main problems existing in the teaching management team in colleges and universities at present, this paper talks about the qualities that teaching managers in colleges and universities should have and some thoughts on how to strengthen the team construction.
Paper Keywords: colleges and universities; Teaching management; Team building?
Teaching is the central work of colleges and universities, and cultivating high-quality talents needed by society is the foundation of colleges and universities. Teaching management is the guarantee to create a good teaching environment and maintain normal teaching order, and it is the basis to improve teaching quality. The level of teaching management directly affects the quality of talent training in schools. Especially after the enrollment expansion of colleges and universities, the number of students has doubled, but the number of teaching managers has not increased accordingly, which is undoubtedly a challenge for teaching managers in colleges and universities. Therefore, how to adapt to the new situation, do a good job in teaching management and improve teaching quality has become an urgent problem for colleges and universities.
First, the main problems existing in the teaching management team in colleges and universities at present
1. Cognitive bias
For a long time, in the eyes of some people, teaching is the central work of the school, which is beyond doubt, but who will operate and manage it is insignificant. People generally have misunderstandings about the construction of teaching management team, which are mainly reflected in two aspects: First, they have insufficient understanding of the importance of teaching management in colleges and universities. Many schools pay more attention to the construction of teaching and research teams in terms of concepts and policies, but ignore the construction of teaching management teams, and put teaching management teams in an auxiliary position; Second, the scientific understanding of teaching management in colleges and universities is insufficient. I think that teaching management is a purely routine work, and anyone can do it, but I don't know that teaching management should be guided by scientific theory, follow the objective laws of education and teaching management, study and deal with the problems in school teaching management with a scientific attitude, and manage teaching work with modern science and technology and scientific means.
2. The overall quality is uneven and the structure is not reasonable.
According to the author's investigation on the teaching management team of a comprehensive university, at the educational level, the educational level of the teaching management team is obviously low, with few graduate degrees, and most of them are undergraduate or below. Secondly, from the perspective of professional titles, there are fewer people with senior professional and technical positions, mostly intermediate and below; Thirdly, from the perspective of knowledge structure, the proportion of people who really graduated from education management or related majors in the teaching management team is extremely low, and most of them have not received systematic training in education management, and they lack sufficient understanding and in-depth research on higher education management.
3. The team is unstable and the personnel change frequently.
Management has its particularity, school teaching can run normally, and the responsibility and pressure of teaching managers are relatively great. At the same time, there is a great pressure on the professional titles of management posts, and it is difficult to promote posts under the current situation of fixed posts and quotas, which has dampened the enthusiasm of teaching managers to some extent, so some people are not at ease with teaching management. In particular, the teaching management personnel at college (department) level change frequently, which greatly affects the continuity of their work.
4. The ability to use information technology is not strong
With the rapid development of network technology and the substantial increase in the number of students, the traditional management mode of "one pen, several sheets of paper" has been unable to keep pace with the times. Mastering modern teaching methods is not only a requirement for teachers, but also a requirement for managers. Nowadays, many colleges and universities have used the teaching management system, which can arrange courses, register students, register grades and query online, greatly improving work efficiency. According to the author's observation of teaching administrators in a university, it is found that most administrators can only perform simple operations, and few people are proficient in and use the functions of computer systems to manage, which also affects the efficiency of management to some extent.
Two, the quality of teaching management team in colleges and universities should have
First, we should have a high sense of responsibility and dedication. Teaching management is often cumbersome, often working overtime, and it is not easy to achieve results. Therefore, practitioners must have a high sense of responsibility and dedication to work in order to keep this "loneliness".
The second is to have good information communication and communication skills. Barnard, the founder of modern organizational theory, defined organizational elements as organizational purpose, willingness to cooperate and information exchange. He believes that the individual's willingness to cooperate and the organization's goals can only be linked and unified through information communication. In the process of teaching management, in order to ensure the smooth progress of teaching, teaching managers need to have the ability to coordinate teachers, students and communicate with personnel in teaching-related departments, and accurately convey school policies and regulations to teachers and students.
The third is to have a certain spirit of reform and innovation. With the change of the external environment and management object of the school, the management mode should be adjusted accordingly. This requires managers to have a certain spirit of innovation, to explore a more advanced, people-oriented management model to meet the requirements of the times.
The fourth is to establish the concept of lifelong learning. Peter Senge pointed out in his fifth discipline: "When the world is more and more interrelated and business activities are more and more complex and interactive, work must be learning." Today, with the internationalization of higher education, teaching administrators should not only learn and master relevant professional knowledge and educational management knowledge, but also master modern management knowledge theory to keep pace with the times.
Third, ways and measures to strengthen the construction of teaching management team in colleges and universities
1. Correctly understand the importance of team building
Teaching management has always been a very important part of university management. First-class universities need first-class management, and high-quality and efficient management is the guarantee of talent training. The quality of teaching management team directly affects the teaching work of the school. Every university attaches great importance to it. The problem is that many colleges and universities attach importance to the management of teaching work and ignore the people engaged in management work; Pay attention to system construction and ignore human construction. Therefore, we must correct the deviation in understanding, overcome the idea of "emphasizing teaching and scientific research but neglecting management", and take effective measures to strengthen the construction of teaching management team and teachers team. Specifically: first, strengthen the professional training of teaching management personnel; The second is to create opportunities to encourage and support teaching managers to continue their studies; Third, strengthen the exchange of learning between brother colleges and universities, adopt the way of "going out, please come in" and invite experts in teaching management to come to the school for guidance; The fourth is to enrich those teachers who have both ability and political integrity and management skills into the teaching management team.
2. Establish and improve the incentive mechanism of rewards and punishments.
How can teaching management norms be guaranteed by the system? It is necessary to strengthen the system construction of teaching management, clarify post responsibilities, formulate corresponding management measures, strictly assess discipline, conduct regular and irregular, qualitative and quantitative, multi-level and multi-form assessment and supervision mechanisms for managers, and combine work performance with professional title evaluation and year-end assessment. Give necessary material and spiritual rewards to those who pass the examination as excellent, and take certain measures to those who pass the examination as poor. Increase the sense of responsibility and urgency of teaching managers through reward and punishment incentive mechanism, and improve management efficiency.
3. Realize the professionalization of teaching management team.
How to judge a person's (or team's) professional level, Schulman, an American educator and chairman of Carnegie Teaching Promotion Association, believes that there are the following criteria: service concept and professional ethics; Fully master academic and theoretical knowledge; Able to operate and practice skillfully within a certain professional scope; Judging the actual situation with theory; Establish a professional team for professional learning and personnel management. According to this standard, the professionalization of teaching management team is to build a team that is proficient in relevant professional knowledge, understands the laws of education and teaching, has high quality, is relatively stable, and knows and knows management. At present, in the teaching management team of colleges and universities, many of them belong to "double shoulders" cadres. On the one hand, they undertake certain teaching and scientific research tasks; On the other hand, they undertake heavy teaching management. Some "double-shouldered" cadres believe that management is the dedication during their term of office, and teaching and scientific research are their foothold. Under the guidance of this idea, it is difficult for them to improve their management and become real management experts. Therefore, it is particularly important to build a professional teaching management team.