Recently, the Foreign Student Education Management Research Committee of the Jiangsu Higher Education Association announced the evaluation results of the 2022 Jiangsu University Foreign Student Teaching Observation Competition. Two teachers in our school have won first and third prizes respectively, and the school has been awarded the Excellent Organization Award.
This competition is guided by the Education Department of Jiangsu Province and hosted by the Foreign Student Education Management Research Committee of the Jiangsu Higher Education Association. The aim is to deeply implement the "Opinions of the Ministry of Education and other eight departments on Accelerating and Expanding the Opening up of Education in the New Era" and the "14th Five Year Plan for Education Development in Jiangsu Province", actively promote the "Study Abroad in Jiangsu" action plan, and improve the quality of international student training in China. The competition schedule is divided into three stages: preliminary, semi-finals, and finals. The preliminary and semi-finals are conducted through expert online teaching video evaluation. After intense competition, 78 international student teachers from 27 undergraduate colleges and 13 vocational colleges in the province entered the finals. The final will be taught live through Tencent Conference, using a format of "3 minute lecture+12 minute on-site teaching". After evaluation, Professor Yu Xi from the School of Finance and Logistics Management of our school won the first prize for her course "Spoken Business English", and Professor Yuan Lingyu from the School of International Education won the third prize for her course "Urban Rail Transit Operation Organization".
Since September, our school's School of International Education has carefully prepared for this competition, organizing on-site selection and pre competition expert guidance. We have invited experienced experts to provide guidance to participating teachers in teaching design, teaching content, teaching methods, and innovation. The two participating teachers actively prepared for the competition and practiced diligently. In the fiercely competitive final, they won the recognition of the judges with excellent performance, fully demonstrating the style and ability of our school's international student teachers to teach in full English.
Teacher Yu Xi innovatively developed the "LIKE" teaching method in the course of "Business English Speaking". Starting from stimulating the interest of international students, she guided them to break through cultural and language barriers and complete the teaching difficulties; She has established a tiered teaching model of "basic learning, scenario rehearsals, business applications, and extended classrooms", delving deeper and achieving teaching objectives subtly; Simultaneously integrating ideological and political education into the curriculum, telling the "Chinese story" well in the course, so that international students can understand the realChina.
In the course of Urban Rail Transit Train Operation Organization, Professor Yuan Lingyu focused on the history and development of Cairo subway, and introduced the cooperation projects in subway construction between Egypt and China under the "the Belt and Road" master plan to the students of Egypt's order class. During the teaching process, she aimed to enhance the professional knowledge and sense of professional mission of Egyptian order class students, enhance the concept of win-win cooperation, and motivate them to grow into excellent international rail transit talents.
For a long time, our school has attached great importance to the education and training of international students, actively encouraging international student teachers to strengthen communication and learning, comprehensively deepening the reform of international student education and teaching, continuously promoting the construction of the "Study Abroad South Railway" brand, and continuously improving the quality of international talent training at our school, achieving fruitful results.
(Contributed by: School of International Education)
