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On the Significance of Tutorial System in Modern Undergraduate Education Reform
On the Significance of Tutorial System in Modern Undergraduate Education Reform

Paper Keywords: undergraduate tutorial system reform

Abstract: The significance of undergraduate tutorial system lies in institutionalizing and concretizing teachers' teaching and educating people. Its effective implementation contributes to the maturity of students' ideological education management, the promotion of students' interest in scientific research and the formation of students' professional quality. This paper attempts to start with the implementation and optimization of the tutorial system for undergraduates, analyze the existing problems and feasible methods of the tutorial system, and find a suitable way to optimize the tutorial system for undergraduates, so as to realize its significance in education reform.

First, it is helpful to realize the transformation of undergraduate education from social standard to human standard.

1. ideologically. Freshmen who have just entered the university gate are generally in a period of physiological and psychological changes. The transformation of intense study in high school into relaxation on campus will make some students feel at a loss. All kinds of illusions about the university in high school and the actual situation of university life will have a certain psychological gap. Before going to college, many students regarded being admitted to college as their great motivation. After entering the university gate, this motivation disappears and it is easy to lose yourself. The educational model of universities is that counselors are mainly responsible for managing students' daily lives. The ideological status of some students often seems to be inadequate in the face of one-to-many management by counselors.

2. On the construction of values. During the four-year undergraduate education, students are in the process of forming and trimming their world outlook, outlook on life and values. As the development object of higher education, college students must be educated according to the curriculum law of college students' personality and psychological development. The age of full-time undergraduates tends to be mature, which is also an important period for the formation of values, outlook on life and world outlook, and both physiology and psychology are in an unstable development period. For college students, after being in the rapid development period of physiological and psychological changes and getting rid of the shackles of parents and schools at the same time, there have been problems such as poor self-control, obvious lack of life and social experience, and obvious lack of political and ideological stability. These factors will affect their study and life from different aspects, and even their mental health. When students are faced with such problems, it is particularly necessary for tutors to communicate and guide them in time. Mentors' words and deeds, through examples of scientific research, may be more meaningful than counselors' simple ideological and political management.

3. Professional guidance. Nowadays, college students are in an era of individuality, and the appeal of seeking common ground while reserving differences among students is particularly obvious, so there are obvious differences in hobbies and even personal qualities. After the implementation of the tutorial system, tutors not only serve as their academic tutors and friends, but also have a wider impact on their lifestyles and attitudes towards life, helping freshmen learn from the transition of university, making them adapt to university study and life faster and better, and enabling them to better play their subjective initiative. For those senior students who have certain adaptability to college life, tutors can help students build their majors from the perspective of professional development and overcome the blindness of topic selection, especially in the process of topic selection, which can closely combine students' interests and hobbies, and at the same time, tutors can guide them to grasp the key issues in the stages of topic selection, research, basic research and thesis formation, so that the teaching quality can be effectively guaranteed.

Second, the significance of tutorial system in modern education reform

1. Tutorial system promotes the organic combination of "teaching" and "educating people". It can be seen from the current undergraduate teacher setup. Teachers in existing university education are obviously divided into two parts. Educating people has become the task of counselors and classroom teachers, and professional teachers only have the role of teaching professional knowledge. Nowadays, university teachers lack the educational function in a certain sense, and pay more attention to imparting knowledge from books. In a narrow sense, this is the transmission of the meaning of teaching materials, only teaching, but lack of interaction with students. Especially in university education, there is an important drawback now, which is the lack of proper teaching communication between teachers and students. Teachers come to class and leave after class, and there is a lack of proper interaction between teachers and students. The management of students' life in undergraduate education is completed by full-time counselors, which is basically divorced from teaching and scientific research and has become a very clear division of labor. Teachers are only responsible for teaching and scientific research, and counselors are responsible for the management of students. This is not conducive to the growth of college students, nor to the role of teachers in teaching and educating people. The implementation of tutorial system can organically combine the two, so that students can learn knowledge, increase their knowledge and improve their quality through example teaching and life guidance.

2. Broaden professional knowledge and cultivate interest in scientific research. An undergraduate university with educational spirit and transmission ability should not only impart knowledge and skills to students, but also cultivate their scientific research and innovation ability. Tutorial system conforms to this modern educational concept. The implementation of tutorial system can make use of the different research fields of professional teachers, so that undergraduates can stimulate their interest in scientific research as soon as possible, accumulate certain practical experience and cultivate their innovative ability, and also set a good learning direction for graduate students and cultivate their hobbies in professional fields. Tutorial system is a flexible training system that teaches students in accordance with their aptitude. Under the subtle influence of the tutor, the comprehensive quality of students has been greatly improved. Under the operation mechanism of tutorial system, students get rid of the negative influence of traditional education and learn to study independently under the guidance of tutors.

Thirdly, several types of tutorial system are feasible.

1. Study the tutorial system. The so-called scientific research tutorial system is an educational system in which tutors guide students to carry out scientific research activities such as subject research and social practice, take scientific research as a platform, and use tutors' scientific research ability to cultivate and enhance students' scientific research consciousness and ability, thus enhancing students' innovative ability. The ultimate goal of scientific research tutorial system is to improve students' interest in scientific research and their scientific research ability. This appeal undoubtedly has higher requirements for the academic ability and scientific research ability of the tutor. The characteristics of scientific research tutors are: first, there is good interaction between tutors and students, so that tutors can really teach students according to their characteristics and interests; Secondly, classroom teaching and scientific research teaching, including social practice, can be actively linked; Third, give full play to the positive role of tutors and students and the subjective guiding role of teachers.

2. Elite tutorial system. The so-called elite tutorial system, also known as elite student tutorial system, is a kind of talent education thought, which allows outstanding students to make full use of the best resources of the school and get the guidance of the best tutor to cultivate the best talents. As a representative type of undergraduate tutor, it aims to cultivate students with high comprehensive quality and strong innovation ability, keen analytical ability and solid theoretical foundation among college students. Through the double selection mechanism between teachers and students, we can provide college teachers with rich teaching experience, solid theoretical foundation and high academic level as mentors for such students. This is of great significance to optimize students' knowledge structure and cultivate their innovative ability and divergent thinking.

3. A complete tutorial system. The so-called complete tutorial system means that all undergraduates, except counselors and class teachers, are provided with special counseling in study, life, psychology and thought. In the mode of complete tutorial system, the main reason is that the members are obviously different from the first two tutorial systems. This tutorial system includes educational administrators except teaching and scientific research, and the number of students is also more than the other two tutorial systems. The characteristic of this tutor model is that it can provide educational guidance for college students in a large area, comprehensively and fairly. This kind of counseling can not only be in the classroom, but also include the promotion of scientific research interest, the improvement of life planning and so on; This is not only conducive to the growth and progress of students, but also to the close relationship between teachers and students. However, this mode must be combined with the other two modes to realize targeted, distinctive and hierarchical batch development. The introduction of tutorial system into undergraduate education is a tentative exploration process, which is a useful supplement to the current undergraduate education management system and helps to further improve it in daily teaching practice, so as to provide strong support and help for undergraduate education.