"The job hunters are here." Recently, it is the peak season for Shanghai primary and secondary schools to issue recruitment lists to supplement teachers.
The pre-admission lists circulating in some exemplary high schools are particularly eye-catching. Almost all of them are domestic top "double first-class" college graduates, and many of them have doctoral degrees.
Highly educated talents from high-level research universities are willing to engage in basic education, are they overkilling?
Are the employment opportunities for normal students in traditional normal colleges being squeezed out?
What new issues will such a phenomenon raise for the transformation of my country's normal education?
Competitive positions for non-teacher students
In the past few days, the list of newly recruited teachers of a well-known middle school in this city has been widely spread.
Among the more than ten candidates, nearly 40% have a doctorate degree, and the rest are master's degrees. Many of them are from famous schools such as Peking University, Fudan University, and Tongji. Only less than one-fifth of them graduated from East China Normal University.
"In fact, looking at the city-level model high schools in the city, there is almost an unwritten agreement on recruitment in the past few years. The threshold is set at the original 211 colleges and above, and the major disciplines are basically recruiting 985 college graduates or above. Normal college graduates will also consciously apply their resumes to elementary schools. At best, they will try their luck in junior high schools.” A Shanghai high school principal exclaimed.
"On the one hand, more and more non-teacher students, especially graduates from double first-rate colleges and universities, are joining the faculty of basic education. This is definitely a manifestation of social progress." said Qi Dajiang, principal of Jincai Middle School South School. Now teachers The selection and employment of the team is becoming diversified. Among the new teachers recruited by some newly opened schools every year, non-teacher students are not uncommon; on the other hand, even the graduates with high degrees of prestigious universities have great changes in their employment outlook. Normal students do not lose face by competing for teaching positions, and to some extent this is a good job.
Whether to add a teacher professional
What's interesting is that in view of the increasing willingness of graduates from non-teaching colleges to teach, some comprehensive universities in China have begun to add teachers' majors. For example, Nanjing University has established Tao Xingzhi Teacher Education College.
Some people in the industry also said that this is not "innovation." As everyone knows, the people's educator Yu Yi graduated from the Department of Education of Fudan University in the early 1950s. However, after the adjustment of schools and departments across the country, Fudan no longer has an education major.
Of course, there are different opinions on whether or not a high-level comprehensive university should open a teacher education program.
Xiong Bingqi, deputy dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, believes that in order to give full play to the comprehensive advantages of comprehensive colleges and universities, teachers must pay attention to teaching, because comprehensive colleges and universities in my country generally have problems that emphasize academic research and neglect skills training. To solve the problem, the advantages of interdisciplinary in universities cannot be well reflected in the professional education of teachers.
Do "basic disk" to dig "live spring eye"
At present, graduates of comprehensive colleges and "double first-class" colleges and universities are willing to stay in big cities and prefer to teach in middle schools and even elementary schools. In this regard, the general evaluation of grassroots schools is that the overall quality of these students is good, but they must adapt to teaching positions. A "professionalization" process is still needed.
Wang Jian, director of the Department of Elementary Education of Shanghai Normal University, said that the ideal state should be to "let excellent people train better people", but we must also objectively see that the number of graduates from prestigious universities entering basic education positions is a small number. Nor is it the main body of basic education teacher supplement, and it is still teacher students who support the basic education teacher team.
The entry of prestigious university graduates into model high schools is conducive to achieving high-level teaching in accordance with their aptitude and early detection and early training of top innovative talents.
"A study we have just completed found that among the factors that affect their career achievements after several years of teaching for famous university graduates and normal students, the first degree is not a key variable, but the feelings for education and the love for students. , Business research and other factors determine whether they can truly become a good teacher." Wang Jian said, because teachers are a highly "clinical" profession, it is now necessary to expand and strengthen the supply of normal colleges. On the other hand, it is necessary to tap the "live springs" that are willing to teach in high-level comprehensive universities.
Chief reporter Wang Wei