Recently, the media made a survey on the summer state of young teachers in higher vocational colleges through the questionnaire network. 2459 respondents came from higher vocational colleges all over the country, of which 19.68% were teaching assistants, 53.27% were lecturers, 22.77% were associate professors and 4.27% were professors.
According to the survey, 80.68% of the respondents said they were busy studying, 64.74% were busy preparing lessons, 47.3% were busy with scientific research, 44.8 1% were busy with enterprise research and practice, and a few respondents said they were busy with academic conferences (16.75%) and part-time jobs (8.62%).
Generally speaking, nearly half of the respondents said that the arrangement of study, lesson preparation and scientific research accounted for more than two-thirds of the summer vacation, and 8.82% of them said that they occupied the whole summer vacation. Although there is a holiday, the teachers are not relaxed.
Summer "highlight": charging for the new semester
The survey shows that "learning" and "preparing lessons" are the "highlights" of young teachers in higher vocational colleges in summer vacation.
In the era of knowledge explosion, the cycle of knowledge updating is getting shorter and shorter. A study by UNESCO shows that after entering the new century, the knowledge updating cycle of many disciplines has been shortened to 2-3 years. This poses a higher challenge to the post of teacher.
In this regard, Zhang Yuwei, secretary of the Youth League Committee of Chongqing Urban Management Vocational College, was deeply touched. "The students now are very different from our students at that time. They don't like the knowledge inherent in the textbook, like the content extended outside the textbook, and like the lively life, especially the students in vocational colleges. "
According to the data, about 37.75% of the respondents who were busy preparing lessons during the summer vacation said that it was because "the current curriculum is updated faster and more challenging than before", and 30.09% said that it was to "strive for perfection in the curriculum and want to present the best results".
In Zhang Yuwei's view, teachers must keep pace with the times, "constantly learn and update the arguments in the classroom, so that students can have more sense of gain in the classroom, and as a young teacher, they will also have a sense of accomplishment." Therefore, this summer vacation, Zhang Yuwei is very busy. In addition to docking the school's social practice work and conducting teacher training, he can't delay learning and preparing lessons. Besides, he wants to continue to take exams to improve himself.
As for what to learn and how to learn, the survey shows that 43.75% of the respondents study the contents of their major, and 47.73% study the contents of other fields related to their major. In the survey of learning style, 8 1.35% of the respondents adopted "self-study", and 1 1.29% of the respondents adopted the form of enrolling in classes.
Wang Andong, a teacher of Shaanxi Railway Engineering Vocational and Technical College, pointed out that in the ordinary teaching process, teachers are constantly "dumping knowledge", and the winter and summer vacations undoubtedly provide a good opportunity for self-improvement. Teachers can constantly "load new knowledge and technology" during the winter and summer vacations in order to "preach, teach and dispel doubts" for students.
Every time the school starts, Zhang Yuwei will feel "more confident" when standing in front of the students. For him, the winter and summer vacations gave him an opportunity to review his professional knowledge and clarify his knowledge system again. "It's like throwing my dry sponge back into the ocean of knowledge."
According to the survey, 94.59% of the respondents said that they had gained something during the summer vacation, and 34.77% said that they had "gained significantly". 55.39% of the respondents are satisfied with the improvement of academic literacy in summer vacation, and 62.42% of the respondents are satisfied with the accumulation of knowledge in summer vacation.
Summer vacation has become a "golden time" for scientific research.
According to the survey, 47.3% of the respondents said they were busy with scientific research during the summer vacation. In this regard, 38. 18% of the respondents said that they "don't have time at ordinary times" and 36.54% of the respondents wanted to "improve their professional level".
Yue Donghai, a teacher of Changzhou Institute of Information Technology, belongs to the former. His school has an average of 450 classes per person per year, with an average of 12 classes per week. "There is almost no time to do scientific research, so I can only use my spare time during the summer vacation."
On August 13, Yue Donghai and his classmates went to Nanjing to participate in the "Challenge Cup for College Students" competition. In the previous 1 month, he and five classmates chose to stay in the summer vacation and prepare for the final sprint. While instructing students to debug equipment, Yue Donghai is also digging up many details behind this scientific research project and extracting patents and papers in scientific research.
In order to keep up with the competition and scientific research, Yue Donghai works 12 hours every day, and even has no time to spare on holidays. "There is no time to take care of the children."
In Zhang Yuwei's view, scientific research has no end. "For the title, you must give yourself a plan. Last year, for example, I just finished evaluating lecturers. It will take a lot of work to prepare the materials for evaluating associate professors in the next five years. For example, this holiday will complete the applied provincial and municipal scientific research projects. "
During the summer vacation, the extra time of this month is more precious for teachers with scientific research tasks. "Scientific research especially needs a meditation process to summarize, analyze and read a lot of information. At work, in the face of student affairs and activities, my mentality is impetuous, I am exhausted every day, and I have no time to calm down and sort it out. " Zhang Yuwei said that summer vacation has become a "golden time" to concentrate on scientific research.
Nearly half of higher vocational teachers go to enterprises to "learn from the experience" in summer vacation.
School-enterprise cooperation is an important magic weapon for the development of vocational education. The Measures for Promoting School-enterprise Cooperation in Vocational Schools issued by the Ministry of Education this year and the Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Production and Education issued by the State Council at the end of 20 17 have even played a policy of "combination boxing" to improve the quality of vocational education and deepen the integration of production and education and school-enterprise cooperation.
In this context, many higher vocational colleges will organize full-time teachers to enter enterprises and learn about the specific situation of their majors in practice. Because teachers usually have classes, the time to exercise in enterprises naturally falls on holidays. The survey shows that 44.8 1% of the respondents are busy with enterprise research and practice during the summer vacation. The inspection time was mostly one month, which immediately occupied more than half of the teachers' summer vacation time.
"Enterprise exercise is a hard requirement of the school. Now engineering teachers must know what the enterprise needs, and must organize teachers to connect with professional counterparts. " Liu, vice president of Shaoyang Vocational and Technical College in charge of teaching, is responsible for organizing full-time teachers to exercise in enterprises this summer.
Under the arrangement of the school, Zhang Yanyan, deputy director of the Student Affairs Office of Chongqing Vocational College of Finance and Economics, went to small and medium-sized enterprises to learn from the experience this summer to understand the employment needs and workflow of enterprises. According to her introduction, most secretarial students in her college will choose to work in small and medium-sized enterprises after graduation. "So if we want to do a good job in teaching, we must first understand the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises for graduates. Only with practical experience can we take into account real cases in lectures, so as to adjust the teaching direction of secretarial science and better guide children's study and employment."
At present, Wang Andong has run three enterprise projects within one month of his official holiday-first, he provided technical services for a project in Beijing for more than 10 days, and then he rushed to Tianjin for another project, including a one-day forum exchange and project exchange. The day after being interviewed by China Youth Daily and Zhongqing Online, he had to rush to Gansu to accept another project.
"Holidays should be decided according to the project. If the project is tight, I will continue to run. " Wang Andong said: "So far, I haven't realized the feeling of having a holiday."
Training, meetings and teaching competitions are all concentrated together.
In addition, the summer vacation is also a "cluster" period for teacher training, meetings and teaching competitions.
In Yue Donghai's view, this has something to do with the struggle of building "double highs" in higher vocational colleges. For undergraduate colleges, "double first-class" construction refers to the construction of world-class universities and first-class disciplines. Accordingly, "double high" refers to the construction of "high-level colleges and high-level majors" in higher vocational education.
In recent years, the state has paid more and more attention to vocational education. In 20 15, the Ministry of Education issued the Action Plan for Innovation and Development of Higher Vocational Education (20 15-20 18), which clearly stated that by 20 18, it would support the local construction of about 200 high-quality specialized vocational colleges.
"The' Double High' finalists need a lot of extra points, and the school has high hopes for strengthening the training of young teachers. The' College Challenge Cup' competition we are participating in now is also an effort of the teachers and students of the school. " Yue Donghai said, therefore, the teachers and students of the project team attach great importance to it, and they have a strong desire to win glory for the school. Sometimes, Yue Donghai watches students busy until 5 pm and buys some street snacks to "reward" them. In his view, "there is a sense of honor and responsibility in my heart, which has almost become the source of motivation for the project team to go all out."
In this regard, Wang Fang, director of the Academic Affairs Office of Shaoyang Vocational and Technical College, can say that he has a deep understanding. "Generally, the teaching ability competition of the Provincial Department of Education will be held in the summer vacation. There are nearly 40 teachers participating in the competition, and only we need to train nearly 100 teachers. "
Among them, Liu, who is in charge of the organization of the teaching ability competition of the Provincial Department of Education, told the reporter, "The competition must first be selected in the college, then trained and guided, and then competed in the Provincial Department of Education. We started from the end of June until July 20, and we engaged in 1 month. "
In addition to competitions, various training sessions for teachers are also swarming.
According to Zhang Yuwei's experience, there is a "conference bombing" period in July every year. This summer vacation, he attended training sessions organized by four different departments and grew up in about 1 week. However, it is this week after week that "dismembers" the summer vacation. "When you have a little leisure, find a little holiday feeling, and train again. For example, one will end on July 28 and the other will end on August 6. "
Wang Andong described his experience of participating in the training of construction simulation technology in summer vacation. The training 10 day coincides with the hottest time in summer. "We insist on eating from 8 am to 6 pm, at noon 1 hour, learning software use in the morning, conducting actual combat drills in the afternoon, and training lecturers to answer questions, summarize and share."
In addition, although there are holidays, students are not "holidays" at work. In addition to the routine work in summer, young teachers also have the task of guiding students to do practical work in summer.
Source: China Youth Daily