On December 9th, the results of Shaanxi First Classroom Teaching Innovation Competition were announced. Teachers of XPU achieved great success in the competition: Ren Yan from School of Textile Science and Engineering won the first prize, Niu Yi from sports department won the second prize, Tian Mi from School of Management won the third prize, and Du Guoxiang from School of Humanities and Social Scienceswon excellent prize. Vice President Yin Yongjian, Deputy Director of the Personnel Department Zhang Weidong, Deputy Director of the Academic Affairs Office Zhang Keying led the team to Shaanxi Normal University to attend the awards ceremony.
Wang Jianli, director of the Shaanxi Provincial Office of Education, gave the speech at the closing ceremony. He emphasized that classroom teaching was the main way for personnel training. Meanwhile, it is the core for strengthening morality and fostering talents in universities, and constructing a high-level talent training system. This competition reflected the new requirements, ideas and thoughts of university’s classroom teaching and personnel training in the information age. Wang Jianli deemed that all universities should strengthen the construction of teachers’ morality anda bility, reform teachers’ evaluation system, and create a high-quality and innovative teacher team. He also said that universities should deepen the classroom teaching management system, and continuously improve the ability of talents cultivation. Universities should keep innovating to create a batch of "golden lessons" and build the first-class undergraduate education for cultivating the besttalents with “classroom revolution” as the first step.
The contest started in May2018, attracting 54 undergraduate colleges in Shaanxi province. After several roundsof competitions, 27 first prizes, 50 second prizes, 71 third prizes, 97 outstanding awards and 10 outstanding organization awards were selected. XPU ranks top among the high-level universities in Shaanxi province with achieving all levels of awards in this contest.
