On February 24, the Institute of Creativity and Innovation (ICI) held an undergraduate education teaching review and evaluation meeting at room 401. The meeting was hosted by Gan Senzhong, Deputy Dean of the ICI. Dean and Professor Qin Jian, Philip Lambert, Associate Dean of the ICI, teacher representatives from both sides and teaching assistants attended the meeting.
Before the official start of the meeting, Deputy Dean Gan Senzhong introduced the purpose and significance of this meeting, which was to further strengthen the mechanism of communication among the teachers, and discuss the training of top-notch innovative talents, teaching reform, so as to further improve the quality of education and teaching with collective wisdom.
At the meeting, teachers took talent cultivation as the starting point, proposed to optimize the third semester curriculum from the perspective of cultivation of international view and build an interdisciplinary and internationalized curriculum and experimental platform. They also proposed to accelerate the integration of courses during the process of curriculum optimization and had a discussion on this issue. Meanwhile, subject leads and teacher representatives put forward specific suggestions from the aspects of communication mechanism, teaching operation, resource support, hardware equipment, etc., so as to improve students' accessibility to various resources and motivate teachers to participate in teaching reform.
Dean and Professor Qin Jian summarized the meeting and expressed his gratitude for the questions and suggestions raised by teachers. He said that the teachers at the meeting reviewed the undergraduate education and teaching work from multiple angles, and the opinions and suggestions put forward revealed the current shortcomings in talent training, curriculum integration, etc. Dean Qin pointed out that the discussion held by teachers had reflected their common standpoint that education should be oriented by questions, and centered upon students. He also hoped that teachers would continue to actively carry out the review and evaluation work of ICI until its completion.
