(Reported by Shen Yanhua) At 2:00 p.m., on Nov. 11, the Third Special Training Conference on Occupational Capability Upgrading Plan for Teachers of School of Arts and Communication was held in No. 1104 Academic Hall as scheduled. Associate Professor Liu Fang from School of Foreign Languages made a there-focused speech entitled Construction of Teaching-Learning-Research Community of Teachers in Universities---Theory and Practice. The conference was presided over by Party Secretary Guo Xiurong. All faculty members participated in the conference.
Associate Professor Liu Fang started her speech from the dynamic characteristics of occupational career cycle of teachers, introduced the concept of “specialized learning community” and pointed out that it was an advantageous measure for accelerating the development of the faculty members and an effective strategy for promoting the reform and development of the university.
As a lifelong learner, what should a teacher learn?
On this issue, Teacher Liu Fang shared the actual experience in the learning communities that she had initiated, participated in and School of Foreign Languages had actively implemented since 2016, such as the learning communities around the themes such as listening, speaking, reading and translation. Based on these communities, School of Foreign Languages forged an immoderate passion for learning, applied for many teaching and scientific research programs, implemented the grading teaching, published serial teaching materials, established the high quality provincial-level curriculums and many MOOC curriculums, held the academic conferences, improved the education opinions and gradually strengthened the influences in the academia. At the same time, the students had made great progress on English learning and had been granted many awards in the competitions and the percent of pass of TEM-4 had rose by 10% in recent 5 years.
Behind these enviable achievements, the teachers held together for warmth, teaching, learning and research supplemented each other: passionate teaching, conscious learning and methodical research.
Party Secretary Guo Xiurong made a concluding speech. She said that both School of Foreign Languages and School of Arts and Communication were confronted with the difficulties in development, however, the development courses in the past years and the achievements from the teaching reform set people thinking. She called upon all of the teachers to work together, actively seek for the cooperation mode and sharing weal and woe with the schools and the specialties.
