In the first week of school in the fall of 2024, Yuhua District, Changsha City organized teacher representatives to come to the district’s Smart Education Design Center to take artificial intelligence learning as the “first lesson” to improve teaching quality. This is the epitome of the district’s use of artificial intelligence to promote the construction of the teacher team.
There are more than 10,000 teachers in Yuhua District. “The core of the construction of the teacher team is to focus on teachers’ ethics and teachers’ abilities.” Cao Fen, Chief of the Political Work and Personnel Section of the District Education Bureau, said that Yuhua District relies on its strong artificial intelligence foundation to promote the transformation of the teacher team and has successively won the title of “National Online Learning Space” Application Demonstration Zone", "National Experimental Zone for New Teaching and Learning Model Based on Teaching Reform and Integration of Information Technology", "National Online Education Innovation Application Demonstration Zone" and other honors.
Focus on teachers’ ethics and independently design and develop the “E-Platform for Teachers’ Ethics Cultivation Education”. Click to enter the platform. The series of high-quality courses on "Excellent Traditional Culture Cultivating Teachers' Morality" allows teachers to "recharge" at any time. Through the online platform, a scientific evaluation data collection and analysis channel is established to implement learning content, learning process and inspection feedback to create a "portrait" of teachers. 410 teacher ethics trainers were selected to build a three-level teacher ethics training echelon of "chief trainer, trainer, and key teacher".
Grasp teachers’ abilities and build “one platform” (smart education management platform), “two centers” (smart education experience center, smart education data center), and “three applications” (physical education, reading, and classroom teaching applications). Teachers walk into smart classrooms, record the teaching process independently, "capture" students' expressions, analyze students' psychology, and transmit it to the evaluation system. The system analyzes data such as teacher lecture time, interaction time, classroom atmosphere, and student feedback, and "one-click" "Generate" teaching evaluation report, allowing teachers to review at any time to achieve precise teaching. Yuhua District also took the lead in launching the identification of artificial intelligence teachers in the country, established studios for famous artificial intelligence teachers in primary and secondary schools, and established training communities in 28 schools.
Whether the teaching team is good or not, artificial intelligence brings a new way of evaluation. The district uses a data-based, process-oriented, accurate and efficient "teacher competency evaluation model" to conduct in-depth analysis of nearly a thousand classes, making the evaluation process more objective.
The district currently has "National Model Teacher" Yan Min, "National Outstanding Teachers" Hua Yufeng and Kuang Haibin, Yu Yan, a leading subject teacher from the Ministry of Education, "China's Good Person" Tan Yingtian, and Soong Ching Ling Early Childhood Education Award winner Deng Yiyun, etc. There are 5 people selected into the Provincial Famous Teachers and Principals Project, ranking first in Changsha District (County); "One teacher, one excellent course, one class, one teacher" has 182 provincial and ministerial-level excellent courses, ranking first in the province, district (county).