Research into “1+6+N” Coordinate Development Model and its Application of Fujian Elementary School Mathematics Teachers’, a project hosted by QNU Associate Professor Su Mingqiang, won the 2nd Prize of National Teaching Achievement Award, as announced by the Ministry of Education of the PRC . It is a historic breakthrough as it is the first time QNU has been bestowed such an honor.
The project has lasted 15 years, going through 3 main phases of exploitation, development and culmination. Its long-time teaching reform and practice brought forward valuable experience and grown into a coordinate development model, which had been put into an 8-year-long application in Jiangsu Province, Guizhou Province, and Fujian Province since 2010. It aimed at the shaping of a basic coordinate development model between college teachers and primary school teachers. Such model was focused on coordinate development of college teachers and primary school teachers, and devoted to the nurture of primary school mathematics teacher’s professional skills, such as their subject knowledge understanding ability, subject curriculum interpretive ability, textbook analysis ability, class ethos research ability, teaching design ability and introspection ability. Prof. Zhang Dianyu, one of China’s most distinguished mathematics educator, highly valued the project’s involvement of college teachers in elementary teaching research, coordination between two levels of faculty and the achievement it had already made.
NTAA is the only national-level educational award approved by China’s State Council. It began in 1989 and was held every 4 years. It is meant for the organizations and persons that have made outstanding achievement in education. Therefore, this award is attached great importance by schools and educators from the whole educational circle. NTAA stands for both the highest level and highest award in the field of education, whose counterpart in the field of scientific research is National Science and Technology Award. Since 2018, NTAA has been categorized into three types: elementary education, vocational education and higher education. The Ministry of Education ratifies winners of the first prize and the second prize whereas the State Council sanctions special prize winners.
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