First, unify thinking and understanding, update the concept of education and teaching
To cultivate high-quality applied talents, we must first unify our thinking and establish the talent education concept and training objectives with "application" as the leading factor. Application-oriented undergraduate education is a humanistic educational concept, with the education of "preparing for the future career of mankind" as the core, which is the promotion and development of pragmatic educational concept in reality. Therefore, its training goal is not the traditional discipline and academic standard, but the reality-oriented, which is the combination of theory and practice, production and labor, and school and enterprise. Emphasis is placed on students' autonomous learning ability and post adaptability, their skills for a professional post, and their ability to solve specific technical problems in production practice. It also has the employment competitiveness of technological innovation and secondary development, and has a high comprehensive quality to adapt to various posts in society. On the basis of deeply understanding the connotation of applied talents, the three principles of running a school are further clarified, that is, the maximum demand for economic construction is the highest criterion for running a school; Taking social evaluation as the ultimate standard to measure the level of running a school and the quality of talents; Serving the economy and contributing to the society is the fundamental driving force for the college's own development.
Two, facing the needs of society, around the goal of cultivating applied talents, optimize the talent training program.
The cultivation of high-quality students needs high-quality training programs. Therefore, it is the core and key to cultivate applied talents to improve the talent training scheme and build a talent training model and curriculum system with ability as the core. The focus of the training program should be to combine the needs of social development and professional characteristics, establish a number of course groups, and form a perfect practical teaching system to meet the requirements of training applied talents.
Taking geographical science as an example, three characteristic curriculum groups and five levels of practical curriculum system are mainly constructed. The three characteristic curriculum groups include natural geography curriculum group, human geography curriculum group and geography education curriculum group. The five-level practical curriculum system is as follows: the first level is the basic level-indoor experimental teaching; The second level is the professional level-professional field practice; The third level is the skill level-middle school education practice; The fourth level is to improve the level-graduation thesis design; The fifth level is the expansion level-students' social practice. In order to cultivate applied talents, it is particularly necessary to strengthen the professional practice curriculum system. We should take the adjustment of training scheme as the breakthrough point, take the idea of "practical application" as a new concept of geography education and run through the practical curriculum system, change the original practical curriculum structure, and establish the practical teaching curriculum content system of geography specialty with "practical application" as the main line. Through the cooperation of five levels of practical teaching, various forms of practice can learn from each other's strengths, which can maximize the efficiency of practice, improve the quality of practical teaching, enable students to master basic knowledge and skills, fully develop students' creative thinking and innovative ability, and cultivate students' innovative consciousness, practical ability, scientific research ability and comprehensive quality.
Third, strengthen the construction of teaching staff and promote the improvement of teaching quality.
The improvement of students' practical application ability needs to be supported by good practical conditions, and more importantly, a good teaching staff should adapt to it. Therefore, the construction of teaching staff is the eternal focus of university work. No matter how ambitious the goal is, no matter how good the plan is, it depends on people to implement it. That is to say, the guidance of excellent teachers is the key to cultivate qualified applied talents. Teachers have profound knowledge, teaching is confident, and students have aura. The construction of teaching staff is nothing more than the construction of quantity, structure, quality and style. In terms of quantity, the overall teachers and students in our college are relatively high, many teachers have a heavy workload, and many majors can only attend large classes, which seriously affects the teaching effect; Structurally, the proportion of teachers with practical work experience is low, which leads to the contradiction between the rigid knowledge production mode and the training of applied talents, and the goal of "learning by doing" and "learning by doing" cannot be achieved. Therefore, in terms of quantity and structure, the key points of the future construction of teaching staff are: first, the introduction of flag subject leaders and professional leaders; The second is the supplement of practical teaching teachers with practical background and experience who specialize in cultivating students' practical ability; Third, in order to comprehensively improve the existing teachers' learning ability, practical ability, innovation ability and academic ability, and promote the improvement of college teaching quality, a plan for improving the teachers' ability in the whole hospital is formulated. The core goal is to improve the practical ability of young teachers and the scientific and technological innovation ability of teachers with senior titles, and cultivating and introducing "double-qualified" talents is the key orientation for the promotion of existing teachers; Formulate specific measures such as teachers going out for training and going to enterprises for exercise; In terms of style construction, the requirements for professional ethics are clear and quantitative, which is an important condition for teachers' assessment, promotion and appointment, and promotes the improvement of teachers' work style and teaching style.
Fourth, the system standardizes management, and management ensures quality.
Teaching management is a necessary condition to ensure the teaching quality, which determines the benefit and quality. Quality control is a necessary means of teaching management and an important guarantee to improve teaching quality. First of all, we should further improve the teaching quality monitoring and guarantee system. The teaching management system and evaluation index system need to be supplemented urgently, such as improving the quality standards of main teaching links such as classroom teaching, practical teaching and graduation thesis, and focusing on meeting the requirements of "combining practical teaching with theoretical teaching"; Formulate a diversified assessment system and evaluation method based on application ability, and further improve the cooperative management measures in Industry-University-Research; Detailed rules, regulations and measures for the construction of study style. Secondly, discuss the standards to measure the quality of classroom teaching, and more specifically bring classroom teaching into the post evaluation system of teachers, so as to mobilize the enthusiasm of teachers' teaching work. At the same time, students' professional qualification examinations, civil servants, skill competitions and other indicators should be included in the assessment system of unit work. Third, enrich and stabilize the full-time teaching management team. Teaching managers are the implementers of the whole process management of teaching quality and the guarantee of the effectiveness of the system. Measures for the management of teaching administrators should be formulated to ensure that the quantity and quality of teaching administrators meet the requirements of cultivating applied talents.