At a time when vocational education is attracting more and more attention from society, what matters most to vocational school principals is the status of the teaching staff. In recent years, the Vocational Education Center of Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province has taken effective measures to pay close attention to the construction of the teaching team and achieved remarkable results---

Teachers have become the most beautiful business card of the school

In Zhejiang Province At the Shaoxing Vocational Education Center, the reporter saw a set of figures: Except for one who is over 55 years old and has graduated from a college, the rest of the 171 full-time teachers have a bachelor's degree, with a qualification rate of 99.4%; among the professional teachers, the vocational skill level is in the advanced level. The above account for 87%, of which 33 have intermediate professional titles such as engineers and technicians, 5 have senior technician titles, and 16 teachers are evaluators for various professional skill level certificate assessments. An insider will know at a glance that it takes more than a day for the teaching staff of a secondary vocational school to reach such a level.

Whether a child attends a vocational school or not, what the common people care about is the teaching staff

In recent years, with the implementation of the strategy of “building an economically strong city, a famous cultural city, and a tourist city”, The economic situation in Shaoxing is getting better and better, and there is a huge demand for skilled talents. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the city needs more than 40,000 skilled talents of various types every year, including more than 5,000 highly skilled talents. On the one hand, there is a huge demand for skilled talents, and on the other hand, local people are reluctant to send their children to vocational schools. Faced with this situation, Shaoxing Vocational Education Center had already made plans. Principal Lou Jian'er said: "What the common people decide whether to let their children attend vocational schools is the teaching staff, which is related to whether the children have a future after graduating from here." Therefore, as early as 2003, the school issued the "About Strengthening Schools" "Several Opinions on the Construction of the Teacher Team" established a framework for the construction of the teacher team that is "based on the quality standards of all teachers, with the cultivation of famous and outstanding backbone teachers as the core, with the emphasis on strengthening the improvement of teachers' professional skills, and with the improvement of teachers' scientific research capabilities as the starting point" , and make some rigid regulations. For example: teachers under the age of 50 must have qualified academic qualifications, otherwise, junior teachers will not be allowed to hold teaching jobs, and the salary coefficient of the class structure of intermediate and senior teachers will be reduced by one level. The result of these regulations is that the academic qualification rate of the school’s 171 full-time teachers reached 99.4%.

Due to the expansion of the school’s scale, nearly 40 new teachers have entered the school in recent years. School leaders have put a lot of thought into how to lead this team. The teaching supervision team, composed of the main leaders of the school, special teachers and some senior teachers, not only supervises the teaching of the whole school, but also pays more attention to the classroom teaching of new teachers. Old teachers "teach, help and guide" new teachers through "teacher-apprentice pairing", and guide new teachers one-on-one in designing courseware, preparing lessons and teaching by following up on classes, and promptly correct deficiencies in their work. These measures effectively promote the overall improvement of teachers' teaching skills and comprehensive quality. The fact that teachers frequently win awards in various competitions is a good proof. Teacher Dai Zhimin won the first prize in the "Xingjiao Cup" National Secondary Vocational School Chinese Teaching Design Competition; Teacher Feng Haiyan won the first prize in the National Secondary Vocational School Computer Major Teaching Plan Design and Lecture Competition. In the second basic skills competition for teachers held in municipal schools, the school won the first place in the vocational school group, and 20 of the 24 participating teachers won the prize. With such a team of teachers, it goes without saying that the school is attractive.

Let teachers "get into the water" and master true professional skills

During the National Day holiday this year, Wang Beifang, a tourism teacher at the Shaoxing Vocational Education Center, did not take a day off. At that time, she worked as a tour guide I took a tour group with very complicated members to travel in Guilin. This group consists of 6 families, both old and young, so it is very difficult to lead them. However, Wang Beifang, who has had many practical experiences, was praised when bidding farewell to the tour group members. Wang Beifang said that she was happy to be praised by tourists, but what excites her even more is that the experience accumulated from it can enrich her teaching content and benefit students.

The school has formed a system for students like Wang Beifang to regularly go to companies for internships and training. The school requires teachers of professional courses to spend one month every year to practice in enterprises or on the front line of production services. A small number of backbone teachers spend two days a week in enterprises for temporary training; at the same time, a "double-qualified" teacher training base is established to send teachers to their counterparts. Enterprises conduct short- and medium-term exercises to improve their professional skills. The school requires teachers of professional courses to pass professional assessments and obtain professional technical grade certificates.

At present, in addition to the art major, the school has 62 professional teachers, 54 of whom have obtained vocational skill level certificates for senior workers or above.

Many of the school’s professional teachers are well-known in the industry. Six teachers were named Zhejiang Province Technical Experts; He Jianshui, a cooking teacher, was rated as a Chinese Cooking Master; Ding Wenqiong, a tourism teacher, was awarded the Zhejiang Province Tourism Industry Vocational Skills Leader, Zhejiang Tour Guide, and Zhejiang Province Tour Guide by the Provincial Tourism Bureau. The title of Top Ten Outstanding Young Job Experts; Zhou Yunshui, a teacher majoring in mechanical and electrical engineering, was named the Economic and Technological Innovation Expert of Zhejiang Province. In the recently held Zhejiang Provincial Secondary Vocational Teachers Network Skills Competition, three computer teachers from the school took the top three places.

Everything is for the students, and the teachers here are satisfactory

“Three years of study at the Shaoxing Vocational Education Center enabled me to master knowledge, learn skills, and understand how to be a human being. It makes sense." When Zheng Xiaoyun, 27-year-old assistant director of the Shenyuan Scenic Area Management Office, said this, she was filled with gratitude to the school. It can be seen that she has no regrets about choosing to attend a vocational school when she graduated from junior high school. Like Zheng Weiyun, Wang Min, who is in second grade at school, also expressed the same idea. She said that she failed in the high school entrance examination and chose a vocational education center. When school started, she was filled with low self-esteem and didn't know what to do in the future. It was the school teachers who rekindled the hope in her heart. Now, she has excellent academic performance and has obtained the tour guide certificate in advance.

"Putting students first, and focusing on the all-round development of all students." In the Shaoxing Vocational Education Center, people often use this sentence to explain the dominant position of students. The school has a spiritual website where students can express their confusions in interpersonal relationships, worries about adolescence, and worries about studying and employment.

It is not easy to be a class teacher here. They have to participate in special training and learn advanced educational concepts and methods. The school also often invites outstanding class teachers to introduce their experience and vigorously promote their teaching positions and educational work. The advanced deeds of outstanding teachers who have made outstanding achievements in the school have been carried out for three consecutive years. Faced with this, which class teacher can relax?

At the same time, the school insists on carrying out special training activities on teacher ethics every year, promotes the teacher-teacher ethics system, regards teacher ethics assessment as an important part of the annual assessment of staff, carries out child-friendly education among teachers, and promotes All round development of all students. All these have laid a solid foundation for the construction of the school’s teaching staff.