China News Service, Hangzhou, September 9th: Educational Observation: Why did Zhejiang University spend millions of yuan to reward front-line teachers?
Reporter Tong Xiaoyu
For 10 consecutive years, 68 front-line teachers have won awards, and Zhejiang University's heavy rewards for front-line teachers are no longer "new" news.
On September 8th, on the eve of the 38th Teacher's Day, Professor Fang Wenjun of the Department of Chemistry of Zhejiang University and Professor Wu Fei of the School of Computer Science and Technology were awarded the Yongping Outstanding Teaching Contribution Award of Zhejiang University, and each received a teaching fund of 1 million yuan. .
Zhejiang University Yongping Scholarship was established by Zhejiang University alumni Duan Yongping in 2011 to reward teachers who have made outstanding contributions to education and teaching.
The scholarship has three categories: Outstanding Teaching Contribution Award, Teaching Contribution Award, and Teaching Contribution Nomination Award.
Zhejiang University's heavy reward for front-line teachers has become a story that colleges and universities attach great importance to the mission of teaching and educating people.
Some netizens commented, "Teachers who teach seriously should be awarded" and "Teaching and educating talents is the original intention and mission of education".
But some people think that it is the teacher's duty to give serious lectures, so is it necessary to reward them with money?
Or, why does Zhejiang University reward front-line teachers with huge sums of money?
This may be the answer to the selection of Zhejiang University Yongping Scholarship.
It is reported that the school commends outstanding teachers with solid foundation, superb business skills, excellent teaching effect, and caring for the growth of students.
The front-line teachers are rewarded heavily in order to stimulate their enthusiasm for work.
Fang Wenjun, a professor at the Department of Chemistry of Zhejiang University, explained Zhejiang University to students for the photo
For a long time in the past, teachers have always been described as candles of selfless devotion, illuminating others and burning themselves at the same time.
If things go on like this, people's concept is deeply rooted, that teachers can only talk about dedication, not material things.
The teaching profession requires feelings, and even more rewards from relevant departments, and rewards are not only verbal.
Previously, Li Qingheng, the "post-90s" courier brother, won the first place in the courier project of the 3rd Zhejiang Express Vocational Skills Competition, and was rated as "Zhejiang Technical Expert" by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security. Class high-level talents; "post-90s" Shi Dan won the title of "National Technical Expert" for winning the gold medal in the hairdressing project of the 45th World Skills Competition, and was therefore rated as a C-level high-level talent in Hangzhou.
Closely related to the C-class high-level talents, there are also 1.5 million yuan of housing subsidies and a number of preferential treatments such as settlement and medical treatment.
Good delivery, good haircut can be rewarded, let alone teaching and educating people?
Fang Wenjun, a professor in the Department of Chemistry of Zhejiang University, who won the million-dollar award this time, has devoted himself to undergraduate teaching and student training for more than 30 years.
He taught most of the most basic undergraduate general courses and experimental courses, such as "General Chemistry", and sitting under the podium were freshmen who had just entered the school.
Although this class only has 3 hours per week, Fang Wenjun has insisted on arranging 4 hours of on-site Q&A every week for many years. In order to make the students who have evening classes in time, he often waits until after 10 o'clock in the evening.
Another winner, Wu Fei, is also a diligent "Ruzi Niu".
The textbook "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Models and Algorithms", which is widely used in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in China today, is written by him, as is the information technology textbook "Preliminary Artificial Intelligence" used by students in more than ten provinces and cities including Zhejiang, Beijing, and Guangdong. written by him.
He also wrote the digital popular science book "Into Artificial Intelligence" for primary and middle school students, explaining artificial intelligence in 150 minutes, and the online platform has been played more than 100,000 times.
It is the minimum requirement of a civilized society to make teachers' remuneration match their pay and let teachers live a decent and dignified life, and it is also a need to promote educational development and thus social development.
Rewarding front-line teachers with a lot of money is also a need to improve the quality of college education.
Photo courtesy of Wu Fei, a professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University
In the impression of many people, scientific research results are the hard power of colleges and universities, and an important indicator of college rankings, but how well they do in "teaching and educating people" is not so important because they cannot be evaluated.
The consequences of this tendency are terrifying, that is, the function of teaching and educating people in some colleges and universities is weakened, the quality of higher education has declined on a large scale, professors are busy with topics and become "bosses", and some graduate students are even rarely seen.
The so-called great man is not called a building, but a master.
The Yongping Scholarship of Zhejiang University sends a positive signal: encourage teachers to pay more attention to teaching work through heavy awards, let teachers who devote themselves to teaching regain their dignity, and let colleges and universities pick up their own duties of teaching and educating people.
In fact, this is not only respect and reward for front-line teachers, but also reflects the attitude of being responsible for students and education.
As Wu Fei said in his "recognition speech": Yongping Scholarship is the best reward for every predecessor who hopes to live a more dignified life, as well as their relatives and families.
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