Yao Wei, a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) with a master's degree, and 32 years of teaching experience, teaches ideology and politics at Mianyang Radio and Television University (RTVU). She has been named an “Excellent Teacher” of Sichuan Province, and was elected a delegate to the sixth Mianyang City Congress of the CPC.

I. Exercising loyalty and leadership as a Party member

Yao Wei loves open education, supports the leadership of the CPC, and implements its educational policies. She adheres to the core socialist values, and strictly abides by the laws of the country and regulations of the university. Since joining the Party in 1996, Yao Wei has several times been named an “Excellent Party Member” and “Outstanding Worker of Internal Party Affairs” by the CPC Mianyang Education Bureau.

Yao Wei has never neglected her ideals and responsibilities. As a Party member, she is ready to face difficulties and even danger, and is always hardworking.

At the beginning of 2020, with the outbreak of Covid-19, and as secretary of the Party branch, she organised volunteers to deliver masks and disinfectant to the residences of retirees and staff, and conduct door-to-door screenings in cooperation with the community. They were on duty around the clock, disseminating information, and playing a key role in fighting the epidemic

II. Loving and respecting her job of fostering virtue through education

Since coming to the RTVU in 2003, Yao Wei has devoted herself to open education.

She has provided face-to-face teaching in the courses Introduction to the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Ideological and Moral Cultivation and the Law, and Introduction to the Principles of Marxism, and taught 10 online courses, including Political Economics. She is qualified to teach Preschool Education, Computer Management, Political Education and Administrative Management, and does so while acknowledging the real-world situations of her adult students. Her clear language and vivid expression have made her very popular with them.

She is good at developing and using resources from inside and outside the university to bring ideological and political theory to life.

 

Yao Wei has mobilised teachers and students to promote patriotism at teaching bases, give theory practical relevance, and provide students a sound ideological and political orientation.

 

In 2020, she participated in the first presentation of classes in ideological and political theory at the Open University of China (OUC), and the design of Ideological and Moral Cultivation and the Law at Sichuan Open University. She brings her teaching of ideology and politics to life by basing it on experience, and her teaching plan came second among those in the presentation.

She was named an “Excellent Tutor” in 2004, an “Excellent Teacher of Mianyang City” in 2005, an “Excellent Teacher of Sichuan RTVU” in 2005 and 2007, a leader of the discipline of political science in Miangyang City in 2007, and an “Excellent Teacher of Sichuan” in 2009.

III. Both a teacher and a friend

Yao Wei treats her students as family, keeps track of their relationships and health, and gives those from low-income households new clothes, towels, and schoolbags. For some busy students who live far from the university, and have a hard time coming there for materials, she pays from her own pocket to send the materials by express mail.

Yao Wei is loving and patient with her students, and helps them with any problems they encounter in their studies.

As a host of the undergraduate-dissertation defense for Preschool Education majors at the OUC, Yao Wei tutors about 10 undergraduates and 10 diploma students in the writing of their graduation dissertations every semester. Since this kind of writing is new to them, she often spends her winter and summer vacations giving one-on-one tutoring in her office to help them master it.

She spends most of her vacation time on this task.

IV. Enthusiastic about public welfare, and giving back to society

The RTVU is an open university, and uses distance education to serve the community and society. Yao Wei, enthusiastic about public welfare, uses her learning to give back to society.

 

She has a class called Dance and Life Science for professional women and older adults based on the pedagogy of Deng Kunlun, a member of the China Dance Association. It has been well received by both students and leaders, and was included in the "Brilliant Life: A Lifelong Learning Plan for Women" project of the Mianyang Women's Federation in 2020. Since November 2020, Yao Wei has extended her class to counties and cities such as Fucheng District and Jiangyou City.

Her enthusiasm for public welfare has led her to serve society in other ways as well. Yao Wei has donated books and teaching to Yuying’s Second Community of Mianyang City, including the textbook From Villager to Citizen which she compiled. She has also lectured on "The Images of Heroes in Revolutionary Songs".

V. Standardisingmanagement to achieve outstanding results

In management, her approach is defined by care, and she is adept at discovering and solving problems.

For Yao Wei, it is important to train students in relation to their real needs. In the 5th, 6th and 7th RTVU Cup professional-skills competitions at Sichuan Open University, they came first in their group every time. Between 2010 and 2016, she was named a Sichuan RTVU “Advanced Individual” in teaching and teaching management four times, and in 2019 an “Excellent Individual” in teaching affairs by the OUC.

When it comes to managing research, Yao Wei has been effective at mobilising the enthusiasm and initiative of the teaching staff of Mianyang RTVU.

VI. A model researcher

Yao Wei keeps a diary of her work and studies, has published a monograph and over 40 papers in publications such as People's Tribune, Education and Training of School Teachers, and Guangming Daily, and has edited two college textbooks, one community-education, and one teacher-training textbook.

Although she is an ordinary RTVU teacher and Party member, she is at the vanguard of Party members in fostering virtue in teaching, management, and service to society. Her extraordinary achievements have been highly praised from all corners.

 

By OUC News Network