Zhanjiang Normal University is an ordinary undergraduate college in Guangdong Province, located in Zhanjiang, a beautiful port city at the southernmost tip of Chinese mainland. The predecessor of the school can be traced back to Leiyang Academy, which was founded in 1636. Normal education was founded in 1904, renamed Leizhou Normal University in 1965438, and upgraded to Zhanjiang Normal University in 1.
In the course of 100 years of normal education, the school has shouldered the mission of promoting learning and educating people, condensed the spirit of "respecting morality, being liberal, being ambitious and going forward bravely", trained a large number of outstanding teachers, educators and social applied talents, and made due contributions to the educational and cultural undertakings and economic and social development in western Guangdong and even Guangdong Province. In 2000, it became the first normal college in China to pass the qualification evaluation of undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education, and in 2007, it was awarded the excellent grade in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education, and was listed as the construction unit authorized by Guangdong Province to add a master's degree on 20 10. The school has successively won the honorary titles of "National Advanced Unit of Spiritual Civilization Construction", "National Advanced Unit of Mass Sports Work", "National Advanced Group of Greening", "Demonstration School of Governing Schools by Law by the Ministry of Education" and "Demonstration School of College English Teaching Reform by the Ministry of Education".
This school is a comprehensive normal college which is good at teacher education. There are 16 secondary colleges (departments) and 56 normal and non-normal undergraduate majors, covering ten disciplines such as pedagogy, literature, law, economics, history, science, engineering, agronomy, management and art, three provincial-level key disciplines such as curriculum and teaching theory, polymer chemistry and physics, and Chinese language and literature, and Chinese language and literature, chemistry. Enrollment for the whole country 15 provinces and regions, with 26,534 full-time students, including 20,796 undergraduates; More than16,000 students participated in continuing education.
? The school attaches great importance to optimizing the allocation of school resources and constantly improving the conditions for running schools. The school headquarters covers an area of nearly 1.200 mu, the school building area is 470,000 square meters, and the total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is more than 654.38 billion yuan. The library has 1.97 million paper books, more than 2,000 Chinese and foreign paper periodicals and more than 22,000 electronic periodicals. The National Key Vocational Education Teacher Training Base, Guangdong Provincial Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences, and "Western Guangdong Teacher Education Research Center" have been established, as well as Guangdong University Teachers' Education and Teaching Skills Training Center, Art Education Experimental Demonstration Center, Key Laboratory for Chemical Teaching Improvement, New Material Engineering Technology Development Center, Tropical Marginal Characteristic Plant Resources Engineering Technology Development Center, Provincial Primary and Secondary School Teachers Training Base, Provincial Vocational Education Teachers Training Base and Provincial Kindergarten Directors Training Base. There are three research institutes of education, industrial technology and local culture.
? The school insists on giving priority to excellent teachers and has a relatively strong teaching staff. Faculty 1440, including 927 full-time teachers. Professor 1 16, doctor 184, senior title teacher 4 1%? Teachers with master's degree or above account for 72%. 97 teachers have become the training targets of the "Thousand Hundred Projects" in Guangdong Province, 28 teachers have been hired as master's and doctoral tutors by brother colleges, and 55 teachers have received special government allowances from the State Council, the national "May 1 ST" labor medal, national outstanding teachers, provincial-level teaching masters and outstanding teachers from South Guangdong. Hire a group of well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad as visiting professors and part-time professors. Teachers are diligent in teaching mechanics, advocating academics and being a model for others. The school was awarded "Advanced Unit of Teachers' Morality Construction in Guangdong Province".
? The school actively innovates the talent training mode and trains high-quality applied talents with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty for basic education, vocational education and grass-roots units. Pay attention to the interaction and integration of "teaching, research and doing", and cultivate "five forces" high-quality teachers with the teaching ability to control the classroom, the teaching and research ability to experience reflection, the practical ability to collaborate and innovate, the single-minded persistence and the guidance of being a model. In recent years, students have won numerous awards in national and provincial competitions such as academic science and technology, professional experiments, normal students' skills, sports competitions, spoken foreign languages, cultural performances and social practice. The number of graduates taking the postgraduate entrance examination is increasing year by year; Graduates took root in western Guangdong, advanced into the Pearl River Delta and went deep into Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Tibet and other places for employment. It has been praised by domestic mainstream media as "crossing the river in western Guangdong" and "aiding Tibet". ? The employment rate ranks among the top universities in the province. In the "Ranking List of University Graduates' Employability in 2009" published by Max Company, the school ranks 4th among non-2 1 1 undergraduate colleges in Central South China and 24th among non-21/undergraduate colleges in China.
? The school pays attention to the international exchange and cooperation of education. 1998 began to recruit foreign students and has trained more than 300 long-term and short-term students. We have established close cooperative relations with more than 30 overseas universities and educational institutions in the United States, Britain, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. * * * We have carried out cross-cultural learning exchange activities such as academic exchange, professional cooperation, education and training, and mutual employment between teachers and students. Every year, more than 100 students go abroad for study, internship and investigation. In 2008, the school was named "Guangdong Chinese Culture Heritage Base".
? The school attaches importance to strengthening cooperation between schools and places. Give full play to the advantages in personnel training, scientific research and intellectual support, keep close contact with local government departments, enterprises, scientific research institutions, resident troops and other units, carry out all-round cooperation in education, science and technology, economy, culture, law and policy research, actively expand school resources, and continuously improve the contribution rate of schools to local economic and social development.
? At present, under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, taking the opportunity of studying and implementing the national and provincial medium-and long-term education reform and development plans, taking collaborative innovation as the guide, taking improving the quality of personnel training as the core, taking the right to award master's degrees as the driving force, and taking the improvement of internal management mechanism and school-running conditions as the guarantee, the school is implementing "dislocation competition, connotation development and characteristic development", speeding up transformation and upgrading, building happy teachers, and constantly improving the quality of education and teaching and the level of discipline construction.