"Big Ideological and Political" education model and "Internet +" teaching method
allows students to "love to watch, love to use, love to participate"
At Foshan University of Science and Technology, when talking about military theory course teaching, whether students or teachers will take out their mobile phones to show the "Yiban" APP to reporters and introduce the college's military theory online course group.
This is an online information platform promoted and used by the Ministry of Education in ordinary colleges and universities. In 2015, they took the lead in Guangdong Province to launch the ideological and political course teaching reform based on the "Yiban" APP platform, and built a cloud platform for ideological and political education for students to "love to watch, use, and participate". 100% of students in school registered and settled in real names.
Unlike other universities, the school’s military theory courses are not affiliated with the college’s armed forces department and the college’s student office, but are located in the Marxist College and included in the “big ideological and political” education game. The school leaders believe that military theory courses are part of students' moral education, so they established the Military Theory Teaching and Research Department under the Marxist Academy and arranged five full-time teachers to be responsible for the teaching and research of military theory courses.
"The teaching ideas of letting students follow you with a piece of chalk and a mouth are no longer effective," said Huang Xiaoxu, a teacher at military theory courses. Huang Xiaoxu participated in the development of the school’s military theory online classroom throughout the process. He said that relying on the platform’s “Excellent Course” class group function, the school has carried out secondary development and construction. Based on the inherent functions of the class group, combined with the actual teaching of military theory and national defense education, it has developed functional modules such as military topic discussion, military online courses, military network resources, special online examinations, practical report submission, and national defense questionnaire surveys.
The teacher of the college, Wu Zhigang, was responsible for the teaching of military theory courses for 6 years, and was personally experiencing the changes in the course teaching model. For a long time, Wu Zhigang, like many of his colleagues, was like singing a "one-man show" in class. Because the lecture content is rich in theoretical colors, it is difficult to arouse students' interest, and the classroom atmosphere is not active. He also tried to make changes, opening his own internal web pages, uploading information, and forming WeChat groups and QQ groups, but the results were minimal. After
was introduced into the online course platform, Wu Zhigang felt that teaching work had a "grabbing": using the powerful online functions of the platform, the teacher will release learning materials related to the course to attract students to learn before class; in classroom teaching, targeted teaching will be carried out based on students' online learning situation to improve classroom teaching efficiency; after class, online question bank is used to test students' mastery of knowledge and effectively improve teaching effectiveness. "In the past, homework or after-school tasks were assigned in class, but it was difficult to monitor the results, and large classroom teaching was unable to take into account every student." Wu Zhigang said.
The school’s student Zeng Xianjun has signed up to join the army. When talking about the school’s online military theory class, he opened the conversation: “I am very interested in the current military hot issues. If I don’t have time to raise them in class, I often go to the class group platform to post topics and participate in discussions. Teachers and classmates can reply to answer questions and solve problems.” Li Jielun prefers the platform’s massive teaching resources. He loves military very much. Even if he has finished military theory courses, this sophomore student will go to the military network resource module from time to time to read new materials. "There are all text, pictures, and videos, and they are carefully selected by the teacher, which is worth watching."
From "one-man show" to "big discussion", the "interactive" problem that the military theory course teachers have troubled is solved. According to the course assessment requirements, online course scores account for 20% of the weight. The platform background sets fixed objective scoring rules and weights of each module, and automatically scores based on click-through rates and other rules. For example, students who register real-name practice test questions, post discussion times, and whether to watch information on the platform are automatically scored. In addition, teachers and students also participate in the scoring process. For example, the scoring of the military practice report module is evaluated through mutual evaluation of students and teacher review. Student participation has been greatly improved in classroom and extracurricular, online and offline. Data shows that since 2017, the college has ranked top in the "military theory" category for online military theory courses since 2017, which fully demonstrates that this teaching model is very popular among students.
This summer vacation, the teachers of the Military Theory Teaching and Research Department of the Academy are busy with a major event: gather all the teachers of the Teaching and Research Department to disassemble the knowledge points and current military hot spots of the military theory courses one by one, and record them into original short videos or animations, put them on the military theory online course platform, and study and exchange with universities across the country. "I believe that with the development of 5G technology and the advent of the era of intelligence, the teaching methods of military theory courses with richer forms and more convenient interaction will surely arouse more resonance among students." said Tang Linjie, director of the teaching and research department.
adapt to the new "Outline" to write independent training tutorials
students serve as instructors and cultivate national defense reserve forces
From July 1 to 15, 160 students from the School of Science and Technology of Foshan conducted intensive training for 15 days of military training courses at the Foshan Reserve Training Base. After the summer vacation, they will take up the position of military training instructor and carry out military training for more than 4,000 freshmen in the school.
College students become military training instructors, which is not new at Foshan University of Science and Technology. Xu Xiaozhu, the leader of the college responsible for student military training, introduced that since 2009, the college has trained nearly a thousand college student military training instructors, including students who are concerned about national defense, young students who sign up for the army, and veterans who have retired and resumed school. A total of nearly 40,000 new students have completed military training in the school, creating a strong national defense atmosphere in the school. At present, the college is applying to become a pilot unit for self-training for students in Guangdong Province.
"When this year's selection, more than 500 people signed up. After layers of screening, a total of 160 people entered intensive training, and the students were enthusiastic about participating." Xiao Xinwang, head of the National Defense Education Department of the Armed Forces Department of the College, introduced that after 10 years of exploration, the college has been able to train students' military training instructors. This year's new "Outline" has revised many contents of "Military Skills". They jointly discussed with the garrison troops to timely compile the "Tutorial for Military Skills Instructors for College Students" to adapt to the new situation. Each college student participated in the training and strictly carried out training according to the outline to ensure that they could shoulder the responsibilities and missions of military training instructors.
For a long time, student military training instructors have been held by active troops, but with the simplification and reorganization of troops and the adjustment of military tasks, the situation has changed. In 2009, the school began to explore ways to mobilize college students to participate in the training of the instructor team to assist the training of active-duty officers and soldiers of the army. The college leaders believe that college students, especially retired soldiers, can be selected as military training instructors. This is not only a kind of exercise for students, but also a school-wide national defense education. The ratio of student instructors and active-duty officers and soldiers in the first year was 1:3, and the number of people in the second year was half. By 2017, the training of freshmen in the school had been carried out by student instructors. During the military training, 10 active-duty officers and soldiers were invited to provide on-site guidance to ensure the training results.
Although the selection and management of student instructors is running smoothly now, the school is also full of doubts at the beginning of exploration: Can student instructors have a "soldier flavor"? Can students train students well? How to ensure security issues...
"It is not easy to go from a student to an instructor." Xiao Xinwang introduced that in order to encourage students to participate actively, the college has formulated the "Regulations on the Management of College Student Instructors", including military training experience in social practice and counted into credits, but at the same time, the selection is very strict, "It means that students who truly love and are willing to work hard. For 10 years, no student instructor has withdrawn from the middle."
reporter learned that student instructors have adopted a voluntary registration method. After the military training of freshmen every year, the new instructors will begin to be selected. In order to enhance their "military flavor" and "military flavor", it is stipulated that the college's armed forces department will be managed uniformly. Quan Dewei, a clerk of the Military Theory Teaching and Research Department who has been transferred to the fourth-level sergeant, will be trained throughout the process. Training will be conducted on 1 hour in the morning of Monday, Wednesday and Friday and all day on Sundays. Students with outstanding performance will be screened for half a month of closed training. Active-duty officers and soldiers will serve as training instructors and enter the college student preparation instructor database after passing the assessment. Before formally leading the training in early September, the preparatory instructors need to resume training, review military training content, and receive special training on training psychology.
Wen Guipeng has a great say in the student instructor. He entered the school in 2014. The freshman military training instructor happened to be his senior sister, but he didn't know until the training schedule was halfway through.Wen Guipeng said: "During the military training, my senior sister was very serious. She trained carefully on the training ground and relaxed a little while playing songs during rest." Wen Guipeng later joined the army and was truly a soldier in the army for two years. After retiring from the army, he naturally joined the student instructor team. "I only realized what my seniors said at that time that they were afraid that they would not be like soldiers and could not train their juniors well," said Wen Guipeng.
Selecting college student instructors not only solves the source of military training instructors, but also creates a national defense atmosphere on campus. According to the college leaders, this instructor team has also formed campus flag guards, national defense education association and other club organizations to drive more infected students to join in and subtly inspire more young students to join the army and serve the country. Up to now, 61 people have passed the physical examination in the school, far higher than the same period last year.
introduces military professional talents, and supports full-time faculty team
opens the road to development of military theory teachers
Although the school has already had summer vacation, the teachers of the Military Theory Teaching and Research Department are not easy. Tang Linjie, Li Xiangye, Xiong Wei, Huang Xiaoxu and Wu Zhigang still have to come to the school regularly to discuss the compilation of new textbooks. According to the requirements of the new "Outline", the teaching content of military theory courses in the new semester will be partially adjusted, which puts a lot of pressure on them.
Whether the military class is effective is the key. At present, except for a few military theory teachers in local universities, most of them are officers dispatched by resident military academies, and most of them are teachers of similar majors, and there are no full-time teachers in charge, which makes the teaching effect unsatisfactory.
In 2016, taking advantage of the opportunity of the academy's reorganization, the school established a military theory teaching and research department at the Marxist Academy, and successively introduced Tang Linjie, a doctor of military science and Quan Dewei, a model of military training, to enrich the professional teaching staff of military courses.
"The 5-person small team is the school's full-time teaching and research team for military theory courses, responsible for daily teaching and scientific research work. In addition, there is a team of external part-time teachers." The school leaders introduced. The five teachers each have their own strengths, which just happens to teach five military theory courses including China's national defense, national security, and modern warfare. Among them, Tang Linjie is a postdoctoral fellow in military science with many years of military experience, and Wu Zhigang is a doctorate in history who focuses on studying border history, which can better ensure the professionalism of military theory teaching. In terms of military skills training, they specially introduced Quan Dewei, the fourth-level sergeant who had been transferred from the army teaching team, and strengthened the school's professional guidance capabilities in military skills training for college students.
The establishment of a professional faculty team cannot be separated from the attention of the college party committee. Zeng Zheng, Secretary of the Party Committee of the College, also serves as the director of the National Defense Education Steering Committee of Ordinary Colleges and Universities in Guangdong Province. The college is also responsible for the task of regularly organizing training for key teachers in military theory courses in ordinary colleges and universities in Guangdong Province. Zeng Zheng devoted a lot of energy to military course teaching. The "Military Education Tutorial for Contemporary College Students" edited and published covers military theory and military skills training, and is still recommended for use by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education.
In this atmosphere, the college’s military course research atmosphere is strong. The papers written by Tang Linjie, "The Influence and Innovation of the Self-media Era on National Defense Education for College Students" and "Exploration of Military Courses Construction in Colleges and Universities in Urbanization - Centered on Local Universities in the Pearl River Delta" written by Wu Zhigang were rated as excellent papers on National Defense Education in Guangdong Province.
The school attaches great importance to it, the teaching team is powerful, the students are welcomed, and scientific research results are fruitful, but the development of military theory teachers still faces many problems. Due to the lack of subject support for military theory courses in local universities, the application of projects faces embarrassment, the research results are difficult to be recognized, and the growth of full-time teachers is hindered. Wu Zhigang faced this "embarrassment". Although he was responsible for the teaching of military theory courses for a long time, he had to return to the history major when assessing professional titles, and he took a "detour". For this common problem in local universities, only by relying on the introduction of relevant policies at the national level can we smooth the development path of military theory teachers.
written in front
At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Education and the Central Military Commission's National Defense Mobilization Department jointly formulated the "Outline of Military Courses in Ordinary Higher Education Institutions" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline"), revising the course positioning, curriculum objectives, curriculum requirements and curriculum evaluation methods of military courses in colleges and universities, further clarifying the direction of military course teaching reform in general colleges and universities in the new era. The new "Outline" will be implemented nationwide from August this year.
As an important form of national defense education in colleges and universities, the importance of military courses is self-evident: let students understand and master basic military knowledge and basic military skills, enhance national defense concepts, national security awareness and sense of crisis, promote the spirit of patriotism, inherit the red gene, and improve students' comprehensive national defense quality... But it has to be admitted that due to the different degrees of importance of school leaders and the lack of clear subject ownership of military courses, military courses are marginalized in the teaching work of some colleges and universities.
How to take military courses in colleges and universities? For this topic, Foshan University of Science and Technology has gone through 10 years of exploration and found a military course teaching path suitable for local universities.
