1May 965, William, then Minister of Education of Canada? Willian Davis introduced the "153 Act" aimed at establishing community colleges in all provinces, aiming at providing excellent tertiary education for those students who have reached the university entrance level but do not want to go to university. Their school age is set at 18 to 30 years old and they have a high school diploma. The college is independent of the education system and based on associations. The basic starting point of teaching is to meet the needs of industry and commerce for various technical talents. In August, 1966, Shenglijia College was officially announced at the first board meeting. On September 6th, 1967, Shengli Jia College officially opened its doors to enroll students. William? Newham was the first dean. Since then, St. Ricard College has embarked on the right track and embarked on a unique road of teaching and management.
Shengli College is a national higher vocational and technical college with the fundamental teaching goal of cultivating all kinds of applied technical talents. After graduation, students can look for jobs directly, or go to famous universities in the United States, Canada and other countries that have cooperation agreements with St. Ricard College for further study. These universities include the three most famous universities in Toronto: York University, University of Toronto and Wilson Polytechnic University. Therefore, Shengli Jia College not only undertakes the training of daily students' employment skills, but also undertakes the dual task of professional training of the skills needed for further study.
Curriculum: Basic courses and specialized courses are comparable to Qi Fei.
At present, Shengli Jia College has five colleges, 14 campus, with accounting, commerce, trade, marketing, computer programming, aviation flight technology, court and trial, insurance, fire fighting technology, nursing, property management and other majors. Courses are spread all over North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and China. More than 70 countries and enterprises have links with Shenglijia College, and vocational and technical colleges in China and other regions have cooperated with them. At present, Shenglijia College has more than14,000 full-time students and more than 90,000 part-time students from 75 countries and regions. One of the reasons why Shengli Jia College can attract so many students from home and abroad to distance learning is that it has its own unique curriculum. Under the market orientation of meeting the global professional needs, the college pays attention to the theoretical renewal and practical ability training in all aspects of curriculum and teaching. The school always takes building students' professional language foundation and cultivating students' practical ability as its fundamental task. Most of its five branches have special "English and General Education" to evaluate and cultivate students' professional English level in order to achieve the purpose of literacy. The setting of this basic course plays an important role in laying the foundation for students to study in all aspects of their major smoothly, and effectively ensures that students are involved in relevant knowledge and information in their professional study.
Shenglijia College has an international professional learning system and real-time updated professional teaching materials. The college has a special market development department, which is engaged in the development of international courses and constantly supplements the courses of new industry projects appearing in the market, so as to cultivate talents to meet the global professional needs. It is this curriculum that enables her graduates to absorb the fresh knowledge of vocational projects in time, learn advanced vocational skills, and have a broader employment field and space to display their talents, which is also the key to maintain a high employment rate for graduates of Shengli Jia College every year. The content of teaching materials not only comes directly from the actual production line, but also is updated in time according to the development and changes of production. The professional knowledge of teaching materials is highly targeted, from which students can gain the most professional knowledge with the characteristics of the times, and they can adapt to the developing working environment immediately after graduation, avoiding the disadvantages of being out of touch with production practice because of the lagging teaching materials, thus solving the dilemma that students can not meet the needs of enterprises after graduation.
In addition, many majors in St. ricard College specially arrange students to study alternately through the combination of specialized courses and paid internships until graduation. This teaching design fully ensures that students have solid professional skills and rich practical experience when they graduate, and it is also of great benefit to improve students' professional theoretical literacy.
Training mode: two choices of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude
There are two main talent training modes in Shengli Jia College: one is the short-term on-the-job personnel orientation training mode set according to the urgent needs of enterprises. This kind of training is mainly aimed at the skills urgently needed by on-the-job personnel, and flexible skills training with different lengths of time is also called "apprenticeship teaching mode", which is suitable for on-the-job personnel who intend to receive training and study in a limited time for their own skills. The other is CBE (Competency-based Education) mode based on cultivating students' abilities. This model pays attention to the evaluation and cultivation of students' ability, and implements personalized teaching mode according to different training objects. Course content and study time can be arranged flexibly. Students can choose their own professional projects to receive professional education according to their own characteristics, as long as they complete the required credits within seven years, and there is no mandatory study period. These two teaching modes are unique vocational education and training modes in Canada, and St. Ricard's College has brought them all into full play to give play to their unique advantages for different students.
However, similar schools in China can't pay full attention to the individual differences of students, which makes the teaching too rigid and lacks individuality. Shengli Jia College provides us with a talent training model for reference.
Teachers: Teachers' Professional Development with the Times
Shenglijia College constantly improves and guides teachers' teaching ideas, so that they can master the most cutting-edge educational development trends and the latest software teaching skills. In Shengli Jia College, teaching seminars are held every year to exchange teaching experience and solve teaching problems. Participating teachers should not only provide a successful teaching experience for everyone to learn, but also put forward the biggest difficulties encountered in teaching and seek help, which will undoubtedly directly promote the improvement of teachers' teaching quality and become the driving force for teachers to keep forging ahead. College teachers take the teaching orientation of close contact with the actual production demand, take samples from real production, and then teach in class, so that students can contact the real production process, and pay attention to cultivating students' practical ability and problem-solving ability in the learning process. The teacher takes students' homework seriously and gives a pertinent evaluation. In classroom teaching, different majors use different teaching tools, but the most advanced tools are the same, such as using the latest computer teaching software and the latest management flow chart of enterprises. It is precisely because the students of Shenglijia College can get full exercise in the study closest to actual production and benefit for life that the teaching advantage of Shenglijia College can be maintained for a long time.
Shengli Jia College has established a perfect teaching system and school-enterprise cooperation mechanism, which has greatly promoted the improvement of teachers' teaching level, ensured students to learn practical and useful things in a short learning time, and avoided the disconnection between teaching content and production practice. It is one of the important characteristics of Shenglijia College to closely combine the cultivation of students' grades with the actual needs of enterprises.
Although the history of St. ricard's College is not long, in the past 40 years, she has not only maintained a leading position among similar Canadian universities, but also made continuous efforts to connect with the world and further integrate into international vocational and technical education. In the coming years, although Shengli Jia College still has a long way to go, her development shows us her bright future.