On 13 April 2021, the Faculty of Economics and Management held a teaching-skills exchange, which coincided with a competition to select candidates for the Teaching-skills Competition of the Open University of China (OUC). Seven teachers participated in the event, and all teachers in the faculty attended to watch, and to engage in teaching exchanges and evaluations.

The activity was divided into three parts: mobilisation, exchange and presentation, and comprehensive evaluation. To begin, the faculty mobilised participation, formulated an evaluation scheme targeting its members, and established a working group. The teaching designs submitted by participating teachers were evaluated and scored in terms of content, objectives, organisation and text. The teachers drew lots to determine the order in which they would give their 20-minute presentations, and the judges and other participants scored their performances in terms of content, organisation, language, posture and manner, politics and ideology, and so on, with three teachers selected by the judges to participate in the OUC Teaching-skills Competition, and their names publicised within the faculty. The competing teachers prepared their lessons with care, and vividly demonstrated their teaching skills; there were wonderful moments and heated interactions, and an upsurge of enthusiasm for exchange among those belonging to different disciplines within the faculty.

This event has created a means of encouraging the professional growth of teachers of Economics and Management by creating positive interactions among them and enabling them to learn from each other. The selection of candidates to the OUC Teaching-skills Competition was therefore successful.

The Faculty of Economics and Management intends to make more such use of teaching competitions in the future, since preparation for them, and the competitions themselves, allow for useful observation and evaluation. It aims to integrate them with everyday teaching practices, and to continue to develop the teaching of ideology and politics, while committing to training basic teaching skills, stimulating the enthusiasm of teachers, enhancing their ability to teach ethical conduct, and promoting teacher evaluation, in acknowledgment of the centennial of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

By Pei Haiyang,photos by Yang Junhong, OUC