Recently, results of the 11^th Young Teachers’ Teaching Skills Competition and the 5^th English Teaching Competition in Xiamen University finally came out. Teachers from International College stood out and got great awards. Lecturer Ms. Lin Yingting won the first prize in Art Group in Young Teachers’ Teaching Skills Competition. Lecturer Ms. Zeng Shufan won the Best Course-ware Prize in Flipped-Classroom Group. In the English Teaching Competition, Assistant Professor Ms. Chen Jing won the second prize in Art Group and Lecturer Ms. Gong Rongxiu won the second prize in Art Group and also the Best Course-ware Prize. All of those excellent teachers bring great honor to our college!

                                 Lecturer Ms. Lin Yingting from International College

There are lots of teachers participated in this competition, 55 teachers from 23 different colleges with specific academic background in Xiamen University eventually entered the final competition. Seasoned teachers with 26 years teaching experience took part in this competition as well as 7 professors (including Thousand Talents Program, Minjiang Scholars Distinguished Professor), made the competition with the greatest number of professors participating ever. Under such tough circumstances, it was fairly difficult for our young teachers to win prizes.

In addition, the Flipped-Classroom Group was first showed up in public. 6 teachers participated in this competition within 2 of them from International College. Talking about the Flipped Classroom Competition, Group Leader of Art Research Group, Lecturer Ms. Zeng Shufan said that exchanging roles meant turning the process of teaching and learning completely, making students study on their own. This teaching method was of great charm, requiring more excellent teaching ability, which was a really kind of teaching student in accordance with their aptitude. It was a long process of choosing the topic, shooting the video and the final discussion, which was also a process of self-learning. This kind of teaching method made very high request of teachers’ controlling ability and fundamental quality. Lecturer Ms. Zeng Shufan said she had got further improving space and objectives during this process. It was not only a challenging competition, but also a glamorous study opportunity.

Lecturer Ms. Zeng Shufan

Lecturer Ms. Li Li

Regarding as a training field and contest site, leaders in our college have paid great attention to the Young Teachers’ Teaching Skills Competition for a long period of time. In June, our college held young teachers teaching skills competition to select appropriate candidates to compete with teachers from other colleges. With strict standards, college leaders’ concern and teachers’ exchanging thoughts and experience, teachers from our college performed very well in each competition during these years. Details are as follows: