On December 4, 2025, the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences held the 2025 Annual Classroom Teaching Exchange Conference and the First Selection of Outstanding Undergraduate Course Teachers in Meeting Room 1615, Guanyun Building. This event served not only as a comprehensive summary of the School's classroom teaching achievements for the 2024-2025 academic year but also as a commendation and encouragement for outstanding teachers. It provided a high-quality platform for teachers to engage in deep exchange, learn from each other, demonstrate teaching charisma, and refine teaching skills, fully reflecting the School's high regard and firm determination for undergraduate education and teaching. The event invited Professor Yang Qing, Dean of the School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering at Lanzhou Jiaotong University; Professor Ma Shan, Vice Dean of Teaching at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University; Wang Minzhen, Deputy Director of the Discipline and Graduate Office of the Medical Division; Zhang Jingmin, Level I Supervisor of the Academic Affairs Office; and Professor Guan Qingyu, Vice Dean of Teaching at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, to serve as judges. Young teachers from the School attended the entire event, which was presided over by Guan Qingyu.
At the beginning of the event, Vice Dean Guan Qingyu delivered an opening address. He pointed out that in the wave of the new era, continuously improving the quality of classroom teaching is a core task for cultivating top-notch innovative talents and a key factor in guaranteeing the quality of talent cultivation in the School. He expressed the hope that this activity would further strengthen the professional quality of the School's teachers, deepen the exploration of teaching laws and innovative methods, and stimulate teachers' intrinsic enthusiasm for updating educational concepts and mastering modern teaching methods, thereby vigorously promoting the reform and innovation of the School's undergraduate teaching system and comprehensively improving undergraduate teaching quality and educational effectiveness.
The selection activity was centered on the core concept of "Teaching a Course Well", with a carefully planned selection process. It began with a broad selection based on student evaluations at the end of the term, followed by scoring from department heads, deputy department heads, class teachers, and student representatives. Ultimately, 13 instructors were selected from numerous outstanding teachers to participate in the defense. During the defense session, the participating teachers displayed their unique styles through brilliant on-site teaching demonstrations. They explained professional knowledge in simple terms, guided thinking through clever case studies, or vividly displayed teaching content using multimedia means, fully demonstrating solid basic teaching skills and unique teaching styles.
The judges, with professional perspectives and rigorous attitudes, exchanged in-depth opinions and provided detailed comments to the participating teachers from multiple dimensions, including course syllabus design, introduction of course content, application of classroom teaching models, innovation in course assessment methods, and the clever integration of artificial intelligence in classroom teaching in the digital intelligence era. They affirmed the highlights and characteristics of the teachers' instruction while also offering valuable suggestions for improvement, pointing out the direction for future teaching enhancement.
This event not only built a broad platform for undergraduate teachers to showcase themselves and exchange learning but was also an important measure for the School to actively implement the spirit of "promoting construction, reform, management, and strength through assessment" and to solidly and orderly promote the implementation of the 2023 version of the professional talent training plan. The successful holding of the event acted like a shot in the arm, injecting new vitality and momentum into the School's education and teaching work. It infused fresh energy into the construction of the School's undergraduate professional courses and provided new ideas and inspiration for the condensation of teaching achievements. At the same time, it pointed out a clear direction for the School to comprehensively deepen undergraduate education and teaching reform and promote the level of undergraduate education and teaching towards a new journey of high-quality connotative development, leading the School to continue moving forward on the path of education and create a more brilliant future.
