In order to implement the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of the Construction of the New Era Teachers' Team", further promote the basic theme of teaching work, improve teacher’s teaching quality, demonstrate the basic teaching skills and capabilities of young teachers in the School of Foreign Languages, and improve young teachers' teaching skills through competitions, the "Teaching Competition for Young Teachers of School of Foreign Languages (SFL)" was held in the Foreign Language Building on August 15, 2022. This competition was hosted by Fang Ying, Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, and judges were members of the teaching committee with rich teaching experiences.
The competition was preceded by mobilization, training, and a selection process run by various departments of the College. It was also affected by the closure of the school during the summer vacation which meant participants did not have sufficient preparation time. Four teachers took part in the competition, and they were fully prepared with fluent expressions, clear thinking, and detailed content. Combining multimedia courseware, blackboard writing, and physical demonstrations, they fully demonstrated the good teaching methods and professional qualities of the young teachers of the College of Foreign Languages.
Using animation, Sun Jingjing, a teacher from the Japanese Language Department tried to help the students understand the "bow", perhaps the most representative body language in the Japan culture. Teacher and students explored the evolution and specific meaning of daily bows in Japan, and then reflected on the form and history of Chinese salute, cultivating the habit of actively studying Chinese culture and eventually achieve the goal of tellinng Chinese stories using the Japanese language.
Sun Zhuang, a teacher from the English Department, pointed out that there is a deficit in China's international communication capacity and told the students that we should love our country as we are connected together by blood and be consciousness that our destiny is tightly linked with the people. He encouraged the students to be mindful of contemporary Chinese knowledge absentia and contemporary Chinese expression aphasia, in order to become foreign language talents worthy of the great rejuvenation of the nation in the new era.
Pan Ning, a Japanese language teacher, took Japan’s monster culture as a starting point and used interesting interactive activities such as "I describe, You guess" to motivate students. She explained to students how the introduction of Chinese mythology influenced Japan’s monster culture, allowing students to be proud of and love their own culture in order to obtain the ability to tell Chinese stories well in foreign languages, achieving the goal of combing ideological and political education in academic courses.
Teacher Bi Junru from the Russian Literature Department led everyone to read the novella "Cancer Ward", analyzing and summarizing the image characteristics of female medical workers in the novel, guiding students to correctly interpret Solzhenitsyn's identity as a writer, understand the stylistic characteristics of Solzhenitsyn's novels, and experience the charm of Russian literature.
After the presentation of the four teachers, the judges and experts referred to the scoring indicator system to carefully and objectively evaluate and quantitatively score the participating teachers in terms of teaching content, teaching methods, teaching effectiveness, blackboard writing, and lesson plan preparation. The judges and experts fully affirmed the teaching skills of all four participants, while also putting forward higher expectations and requirements for them from aspects such as curriculum design, teaching interaction, and courseware preparation. Finally, it was determined that Teacher Pan Ning won the first prize, Teacher Sun Jingjing and Bi Junru won the second prize, and Teacher Sun Zhuang won the third prize. Three teachers, Pan Ning, Sun Jingjing and Bi Junru, were recommended to participate in the 10th Youth Teacher Teaching Competition of the Jilin University.
On September 24, 2022, the Teaching Development Center organized the final of the 10th Jilin University Youth Teacher Teaching Level Competition. 97 teachers from 37 teaching units in the school participated in the offline competition. After intense competition, our school's teachers performed well, with Pan Ning winning the first prize and Bi Junru winning the third prize.
In the finals, Teacher Pan Ning not only led the students to learn basic language knowledge during the course of explaining Japanese monster culture, but also reminded them not to forget to pay attention to our own culture when learning foreign languages and cultures. They should use Chinese wisdom to interpret the cultures of different countries in the world, and become international foreign language talents of the new era equipped with patriotism, global perspective, and professional skills.
The Young Teachers' Teaching Level Competition is an important measure to improve the basic teaching skills of young teachers and strengthen the cultivation and construction of teachers. The launch of the Young Teachers' Teaching Level Competition has established a platform for young teachers in our college to learn and communicate with each other, creating a teaching atmosphere of "promoting teaching through competitions, promoting reform through competitions", and playing a positive role in promoting the quality of teaching and teacher development for young teachers. Our college will take this competition as an opportunity to further strengthen publicity, organize and lead our young teachers to learn together, examine shortcomings, make up for weaknesses, and effectively improve our undergraduate teaching level.
