A Brief Introduction to Cangzhou Preschool Teachers College
Cangzhou Preschool Teachers College, which carries out the education of junior college level, is a state-owned full-time college approved by Hebei Provincial Government and filed with the National Ministry of Education. The college grew out of the No.9 Provincial Normal School in Zhili Province, a very famous historical school with glorious revolutionary tradition which was founded in September, 1925. After the founding of new China, the name of the school was changed into Hebei Botou Normal School. In July, 2000, the school changed its name into Cangzhou teachers’ College, Botou Branch and began to recruit full-time junior college students and carry out junior college education. In April, 2009, the school was upgraded into an independent college and its name was changed into Botou Vocational College. In May, 2021, the name of the college was changed into Cangzhou Preschool Teachers College. Over ninety-six years of educating experiences, the college has handed its school culture down from generation to generation and has formed its own good school spirit, teaching spirit and learning spirit. By now, the college has trained a large quantity of excellent talents for Hebei province and for the whole country, and made great contributions to the national liberation, the birth of New China and the economic construction of our country. The college has long been called “the cradle of revolution south of Tianjin” and has a good fame of “the Huangpu Military Academy in Cangzhou City”. The college is located in the city of Botou which has long been called “the famous casting city in China ”, “the hometown of automobile mould” and “the first town of Chinese Ya pear ”. With Bohai Sea on the east, Beijing City and Tianjin City on the north and the ancient Grand Canal flowing through the urban district, the city has a good geographical position, and the transportation is also very convenient. The college covers an area of 571 mu, among which the building area is 176,000 square meters. The college owns a total fixed assets value of RMB 260 million Yuan, The main campus of the college is located at No.150, West Jiefang Road, which is in the central district of the city. In the college, there are 4 classroom buildings, 4 practical training buildings, 9 students’ apartment buildings and 4 students’ dining halls. There is also an administrative building, a library building, a high standard sports stadium on the campus. With a greening rate of more than 40%, with a large area of green trees, green grass, beautiful flowers and many graceful pavilions, the campus has a very nice and charming campus environment. The college has been entitled “garden school” and “provincial green school” by Hebei provincial government. It is indeed an ideal place for schooling and education.
The development goal of the college is to take the specialties of educations as its main body, and the specialties of economic management, equipment manufacturing, arts and social services as its auxiliary wings, to stand at Cangzhou City and Bohai New District while facing the whole province and radiating to the Circum-Bohai-Sea Region, to serve the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Integration and regional economic development, to insist on the school-running orientation of “application-oriented, open style, with characteristics and high level”, to construct a diversified talent cultivation system, to train a large number of high-quality skilled talents for the society, and to provide intelligent support and human resource guarantee to the regional economic and social development.
The college has the educational institutions of Primary Education Department, Preschool Education Department, Art Department, Economic Management Department, etc. In these departments, there are 10 specialties or majors for students to choose. Among these specialties, the specialty of preschool education is identified as the provincial backbone specialty construction project, the specialty of mould design and manufacturing, the specialty of logistics management and the specialty of art design are the key specialties financed by the national central finance. The professional teaching team of the bag data and accounting (which belongs to the category of finance and business) and the professional teaching team of preschool education (which belongs to the category of education and physical education) are named as provincial level professional teaching innovation team for vocational education.
The college owns strong faculty strength. In the college, there are 345 faculty members and 273 of them are full-time teachers. There are 80 teachers with senior academic title and 122 teachers with master’s degree or above. Up to 60% of the faculty members are double-professionally-titled teachers. For teacher’s training, the college has held many academic activities like “vocational education lecture”, “vocational education forum”, “Qing-Lan Project” and “the young teachers teaching skill competition”, which help to create an excellent team of faculty with noble morality, high professional quality and perfect professional teaching skills. The structure of the faculty is reasonable.
The library of the college is an independent four-storey building which covers an area of 2,987 square meters. The library owns more than 438,000 paper books, tens of thousands of e-books and more than 600 periodicals from both China and foreign countries. The college endeavors to create a warm and elegant reading environment and strong literate atmosphere for the students to read and study happily and grow up healthily.
The college insists on the principle of employment-orientation in the educational work, takes “practical education talents with profound knowledge, noble morality and good teaching skills” as its talent cultivation objective. The college always insists on the talent cultivation mode of “Industry-Education Integration, College-Enterprise Cooperation and working-learning combination”, and attaches more importance to the promotion of the students’ comprehensive quality. In the aspect of professional education, the college highlights the feature of “professionalization and practicality”, carries out “double educations”(education in both practical knowledge and skills), “double cultivation”(cultivation in both comprehensive quality and strong points), and “double training” (training in both behaving and learning). In recent years, the graduate employment rate is up to 94%, the degree of satisfaction from the employers of the graduates is up to 93%, and the college has received good social evaluations.
The college takes the lead to establish “Industry-Education Alliance for Preschool Education in Cangzhou City”, and joins the Maker Space Alliance of University in Hebei Province. The teachers and students from all specialties have taken part in all kinds of vocational skill competitions and always won awards. The college has undertaken all the previous preschool education professional skill competitions taken part in by the vocational colleges in Cangzhou City and won the first prize each time. And also, the college has taken part in all the professional skills competitions in the preschool education in Hebei Province and won the first prize each time. In 2020, the teachers and students of the college won more than 40 awards, including the National first prize in “Xuechuang Cup” University Student Entrepreneur Comprehensive Simulation Competition, the team second prize on the interior design specialty in vocational skill competition in Hebei Province, the third place on preschool education in the professional education skill competition taken part in by the universities and colleges in Hebei Province, the second prize on teaching ability contest in the vocational skill competition taken part in by the vocational colleges in Hebei Province, and the “Sportsmanship Morality Prize” in the first Ice and Snow Games in Hebei Province.
The college actively builds a new pattern of big logistics service and guarantee, and further strengthens the safety and service management for the student accommodation, food, medical care, direct drinking water, constantly raises the ability of service and guarantee and the students’ degree of satisfaction. The college owns the qualification of “Grade A” for the food and safety in the catering industry in Cangzhou City, and each dining hall in the college is “The Provincial Level Standardized Dining Hall in Hebei Province”
The college always sticks to the college-running principle of “running college by law, democratic management, human orientation and scientific development”, takes the construction of high-level specialty group as the lead, the construction of teaching staff as the central task and the curriculum construction as the basis, and continues to deepen the connotation construction, accelerates the pace of specialty layout optimization and adjustment, endeavors to construct the college into a high-level practical preschool education talents cultivation highland.