From "Who Am I" to "Where to Go": Yang-En Teachers' Workshop Unlocks New Paths for Career Development

      To help teachers clarify their career development directions, systematically plan their growth paths, and effectively improve the quality of education and teaching, on the afternoon of March 26, the Yang-En Teachers' Workshop held an activity themed Career Development Path Planning for Teachers at the Lecture Hall on the first floor of the library in the Third Teaching Zone. Bao Yingyu, Member of the University Party Committee and Director of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office, delivered the keynote speech, and some teachers attended the activity.

      Bao Yingyu guided the participating teachers to reflect on Who am I? and explored the profound significance of teachers' career development in depth. She pointed out that teacher development is a comprehensive concept covering four aspects: professional development, teaching development, personal development, and organizational development. She emphasized that teachers should be lifelong learners, and highlighted the importance of career planning for teachers in light of the current national policy orientation that attaches importance to the professional development of university teachers.

      Regarding how teachers identify their career starting points, Teacher Bao quoted the famous saying by Nikolay Chernyshevsky: The man who should shape students into a certain kind of person must be that kind of person himself. She also helped teachers better understand the characteristics of teaching objects by analyzing the university's admission data in recent years. The workshop outlined a clear career development blueprint for teachers, addressed the core question Where am I going?, and proposed four major classified development directions: teaching-oriented, research-oriented, practice-oriented, and Party affairs, administration & ideological and political work-oriented, together with their corresponding realization paths. Encouraging all teachers with wise sayings of sages, she urged them to uphold a kind heart, abide by the legal and moral bottom lines as educators, advocate the truth-seeking spirit of I love my teacher, but I love truth more, and achieve common growth of individuals and career through accumulated efforts.

      In the group discussion session, young teachers exchanged views on topics such as the application and boundaries of AI-assisted teaching, the selection of classroom interaction topics, and the screening and effect precipitation of teaching methods, expressing their concerns and reflections on the teaching process.

This workshop was systematic in content, detailed in data and clear in paths. It effectively responded to key issues of teachers in career development and played a positive role in promoting the overall quality and teaching level of the university's teaching staff.(Text and photos by Teacher Development Center)