About

Participants

The classroom teachers and teaching teams who are teaching students at the front of the teaching line at the Chinese colleges and universities. At present, the people whose working duty does not contain teach students in the classroom are not suitable to participate in this activity.

Selection Criteria

This contest takes the promotion of students' learning experience as the core of attention, and in the selection, it focuses on how much the students' learning experience has been improved by the innovative teaching practice of teachers. Secondly, the contest advocates and encourages innovative teaching concepts and methods that meet needs of the times and the future, and such innovation can be used by other educational practitioners for reference.

The Contest Expert Evaluation Committee will make the selection from three dimensions of the innovativeness (50%), influence power (30%) and popularity (20%). The specific selection criteria are as follows:

• Innovativeness: create new teaching concepts, policies and methods aiming at students' learning and growth needs;

• Influence power: students' learning experiences and learning outcomes have been significantly improved through the innovative practice;

• Popularity: the teaching innovation has certain universality and has popularizing value in the process of Chinese University Teaching Reform.

Enrollment Method

No fees will be charged to the participants in this contest. You can sign up in the following way, and the Contest Secretariat will  review the eligibility within 2 working days after receiving the Entry Form (please refer the “Participants” for eligibility), and will reply you by email to confirm whether you have signed up successfully.

Application Materials

The Organizing Committee encourages competitors to explain the methods and results for measuring students' benefits in detail through the process materials and data through a semester's practice. The materials to be submitted are as follows:

• Contest application form

• Written Readme

• Personal / team photos

• Micro video within 5 minutes or PPT within 20 pages

All materials are needed to be integrated into the compressed package and named in a unified way as: Teaching Contest + school name + teacher name + theme; for example: Teaching Award + XX School + Teacher XX + Research-led Teaching. For the submission method of materials compressed package, please refer to the registration confirmation email.

• Contest application form: it contains the personal resume and a written Readme at around 2,000 words (it is necessary to state clearly that in what aspects does the participants' teaching practices benefit the students and the related evidence (including the graphic display), the key innovations in teaching practices, and the popularity of this innovation) , submitted in the WORD document format.

• Photo: it must be the photo of applicant himself or the teaching team, and can be a formal suit photo or teaching scene photo.

• Micro video within 5 minutes or PPT within 20 pages: the content should include the innovation practice introduction, student assessment and teaching scene. The video is required to be with clear and stable images, reasonable composition, clear sound, etc. Name specification of video/PPT: Teaching Contest + school name + teacher name + theme; for example: Teaching Contest + XJTLU + Teacher Wang + Research-led Teaching.

• The contest organizer can provide free basic video clip services for contestants, such as video editing, related processing of audio, transformation of PPT file into video, etc. If contestants do not have video clips experience, they only need to put video, audio or picture material in a folder, mark the use order and related instructions clearly, and send them to the Organizing Committee Secretariat; the staff will complete the video production and upload within 10 working days.

Attentions

• If the first, second and third prize winners of the annual Teaching Innovation Award of the 1st and 2nd “XJTLU National University Teaching Innovation Award” sign up for this contest, they should submit different practice contents of teaching innovation from that attended the former contest.

• In the mass voting section, each voter may vote one ticket separately for at most five different contestants throughout the activity, and malicious ticket brushing behavior is strictly prohibited.

• In mass voting section, the Organizing Committee will pay closely attention to the background data of the voting, and conduct voting behavior analysis according to the aspects of overall trend of votes, voting period, voting IP sources, etc. If the contestant's votes appear non-technical abnormal situation and have the ticket brushing suspicion, the Organizing Committee will firstly suspend the contestant's voting, start the investigation procedure immediately, and request the contestant to provide the corresponding evidence in 24 hours to explain the change of the votes. If the contestant fails to provide evidence or the provided material is inconsistent with voting behavior, the Organizing Committee will have the right to deduct the abnormal votes. If the contestant has such similar situation for the second time, the Organizing Committee will have the right to cancel his/her competition.

• The organizer has the right to use the application materials provided by contestants in the contest, can public publish the relevant contest on the organizer’s official website, WeChat public number and micro-blog, and use them in the external media and publications.

• All the contestants who apply for registration are deemed to have read the rules carefully and agree to the content stated in the detailed rules.

Contest Secretariat and Contact Information

Committee Secretariat: Institute of Leadership and Education Advanced Development of XJTLU

Contest consulting: teacher Yi  0512-88161893  innovation@xjtlu.edu.cn