In order to promote teachers’ professional development and teaching abilities and consolidate the results of the Informationalized Teaching Competition, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Department of Basic Teaching and the Architecture and Environment Art College jointly held the training and exchange event on “improving teaching abilities and professional development in teachers” at the Room 117 of the Administrative Building on the afternoon of October 24. This event was chaired by Zhu Hongxia (the deputy director of the Office of the Academic Affairs).

Three full-time teachers, who won the awards in Competition for Teaching Abilities and Informationalized Teaching Ability in Teachers from Shanghai Higher Vocational Colleges, shared their experience of the competition and teaching achievements. Fan Guifang (an English teacher at the Department of Basic Teaching) advocated the integration of informationalized teaching elements into class, since it would make teaching contents more substantial and interesting. Shan Xiaoyi (a design teacher at the Architecture and Environment Art College) gave a presentation entitled with “Pseudoblepsia—a Demonstration of Creativity”. Li Yan, a Chinese teacher at the Department of Basic Teaching) elaborated the teaching design concepts and reflections on teaching in the competition.

Meanwhile, Associate Professor Ruan Guangce from the Department of Information Management of the Faculty of Economics and Management of East China Normal University was invited to give a lecture named “How to Design a Students-centered Teaching Plan”, which meet students’ learning needs, and demonstrated the teaching methods that should be used in designing a teaching plan.

This event provided teachers with a platform to demonstrate their classroom teaching abilities and opportunities to observe and learn from each other, and therefore helps them to strengthen the learning of education and teaching theories as well as the practical exploration of their professional development. The teachers who participated in the event said that they had learned a lot through this event. For instance, students shall be the center of teaching and be encouraged to actively join the discussion; teachers should make full use of a classroom to let students think more, do more and ask more so as to comprehensively improve the quality of education and teaching.