Dezhou Kindergarten (formerly Lingxian Normal School) was founded on 1966, and was renamed on April 12, 2003 with the approval of Dezhou Municipal People's Government. This school is a cooperative project of UNICEF's preschool teacher training, and it is the only secondary school in northwest Shandong that specializes in training preschool teachers.
The school covers an area of 300 mu, with a building area of 43,000 square meters and a green area of 6 1000 square meters. At present, there are 26 teaching classes with a total of 1562 students, including 18 kindergarten teachers and184 students. At present, there are 0/46 faculty members, 82 full-time teachers, including 20 graduate students, 57 undergraduates, special-grade teachers 1 person and 43 senior lecturers. There are 16 outstanding teachers and educators at national, provincial and municipal levels respectively, and l people have won the Ceng Xianzi Education Fund Award. In recent years, more than 300 papers have been published in national and provincial newspapers and periodicals.
The school has office buildings, teaching buildings, libraries, experimental buildings, music buildings, student dormitories, auditorium restaurants and other buildings, as well as teaching and research facilities such as microcomputer room, language lab, studio, multi-functional classroom, terrestrial satellite receiving system, closed-circuit television system and distance education network affiliated to Peking University. In 2003, the largest digital electronic piano room in Shandong Province was newly installed. There are more than 80,000 books and more than 220 kinds of newspapers and magazines.
Since 2000, Texas kindergarten teachers have adjusted their courses around the market and trained talents. They have successively added special courses such as home economics, etiquette, abacus mental arithmetic and multiple intelligence teaching, and established affiliated middle schools and kindergartens. Kindergarten teachers have achieved "all-weather" enrollment and employment. In 2002 and 2003, all 528 graduates were employed by more than 40 kindergartens in Beijing, Hebei, Jinan, Qingdao and Dezhou. At present, the school has established a cooperative relationship between talent supply and demand with more than 200 kindergartens inside and outside the province.
The new leadership and teaching staff of Dezhou Preschool Teachers College are full of confidence in the future. They are marching towards the goal of running a higher vocational school with a brand-new concept of running a school and a pragmatic and innovative spirit.