In recent years,With the development of popularization of higher education in Beijing,The employment pressure of Beijing college graduates continues to increase,Structural contradictions in employment are becoming increasingly prominent。Professional setting and social needs、There is a certain gap between the quality of talent training and the employer’s demand standards。Especially the employability of students and employers need to be improved。How to resolve this outstanding contradiction,Major issues facing college educators。Beijing Agricultural College is an agricultural and forestry college under the jurisdiction of Beijing,In solving this problem,Gradually explore a path of educational reform that focuses on improving students’ employability。Oriented to meet the needs of the capital and social and economic development,Continuously update education concepts and employment concepts,To adjust the professional structure、Focus on reforming teaching content,Taking strengthening and improving the practice system as the starting point,Continuously improve the quality of teaching,Improve students’ employability,Achieve full employment of students。
一、Oriented by social needs,Adjust professional structure,Reform teaching content,Improve students’ professional application abilities
20century90Era,With the development of economic globalization and the requirements of knowledge economy,There are increasingly higher requirements for talent cultivation in higher education,This forces university educators to update their educational concepts,To better adapt to the new situation。Meanwhile,Beijing’s agriculture, which only provides non-staple food for the city, begins to expand into the economy、Society、Ecological and other comprehensive functional development,Seed、Exquisite、Earning foreign exchange、Sightseeing、New agriculture such as facility agriculture and agricultural product processing has been developed,Agricultural industry in economic form、The connotation of modernization has been continuously expanded in terms of production methods and environmental capacity,The characteristics of urban modern agriculture are becoming increasingly obvious。For this,The school has an urgent need for talents in accordance with the adjustment of the capital’s economic structure and the development of high-tech industries,Integrating the development direction of urban modern agriculture,Continuously increase reform efforts,The professional structure has been adjusted successively,Reformed teaching content。
1、Organize a large discussion event on educational concepts,Education concepts for all teachers
The school always adheres to the principle of3Organize a school-wide discussion on educational concepts,Through call for papers、Symposium、Theme forum and other forms,Smooth discussion channels for teachers,Building a platform for exchange of ideas。2005Year,The school focuses on “who to train”,The fourth educational concept discussion activity was carried out across the school on the fundamental issue of "how to cultivate people"。The learning and discussion activities lasted for more than three months,Achieved remarkable results。The majority of teachers have further enhanced their awareness of actively serving the society,Established a school-running philosophy of seeking development based on society;Enhanced awareness of comprehensively serving society,Established a "student-centered" service concept;Enhanced the sense of responsibility for cultivating talents,Establish to cultivate applied and complex technologies、Education concept of business and management talents。2008Year,The school will organize the fifth educational concept discussion,Think deeply about the scientific outlook on development,A series of issues such as comprehensively improving the quality of student training。
2.Adjust the professional structure to form advantages and characteristics
The school is closely integrated with social and economic development,Using modern biotechnology、Information technology and management technology transform and enhance traditional majors,Give traditional majors new content。2003since years,bet365 online casinoOur school gives priority to the development of high-tech majors and applied disciplines,Actively explore the establishment of edge discipline majors、Interdisciplinary interdisciplinary major,Dilute similar professional boundaries,Expand professional caliber,Flexible professional direction。The major of bioengineering has been added successively、Agricultural Resources and Management、Pet Medicine、E-commerce、Urban environment art design、Food Quality and Safety、Secretary、Golf、Forestry and other new majors。At the same time,The school strengthens the educational environment through various methods,Improve the humanistic quality of students in various majors,Established emerging humanities and social science majors that are urgently needed for the capital’s economic development。According to the needs of social development trends,Separate the computer teaching and research department,Establishment of the Department of Computer and Information Engineering,Expand and strengthen agricultural information education。Adjustment of professional structure and setting of new majors,Adapted to society’s needs for different talents,Expands the school’s development space,Inspiring the school’s vitality。2003Since 15251_1526795%Above, science and engineering80%Above, employment rate95%Above.
3.Optimize the curriculum system and reform teaching content
In recent years,The school follows society’s knowledge of talents、Ability、The overall requirements of the "quality" structure and the development of urban modern agriculture on the application type、The need for comprehensive talents,Revise the talent training plan for undergraduate students。The plan focuses on highlighting the overall optimization of the curriculum system,Encourage and guide teachers’ curriculum reform;Focus on the construction of teaching and training platform,Strengthened the school、Department of two-level urban higher agricultural backbone courses and quality courses construction;Streamlining theoretical classroom time,Strengthening practice、Cultivation of innovative capabilities;Strive to promote education and teaching reform,Established a "platform+Module "Diversified training model focusing on majors。For example, "Introduction to Environmental Science" related to the social development situation、“Introduction to Urban Modern Agriculture” and other courses have been included in the school’s public basic teaching platform (the first teaching platform),The teaching content of the professional foundation (second teaching platform) and professional characteristic teaching platform (third teaching platform) of agriculture-related majors has also gradually adapted to the social development situation。The agronomy major of the Department of Plant Science and Technology combines the characteristics of this major with the needs of suburban development,Except in the second、The third teaching platform has added "Urban Agriculture Evaluation Case Analysis"、"Urban Agriculture Development Plan"、"New Rural Construction Plan"、"Agricultural Project Planning"、"Urban Agricultural Culture and Industry" and other courses closely related to urban modern agriculture and new rural construction。By reforming teaching content,Transforming traditional majors,The school has added a new direction of urban agriculture in line with the agricultural development trend in the capital,Focus on cultivating students’ basic ideas and skills in the development of urban modern agriculture and the construction of new rural areas。The reformed curriculum system enables students to understand modern agricultural and forestry management、Development of urban modern agriculture、Agricultural project management、High-tech modern agricultural park、Agriculture, cultural industry and other fields and departments,Engaged in planning、Management、Understanding about planning and other work,Broadens students’ knowledge,Gradually improved his grasp and application ability。
二、Oriented by social needs,Continuously improve the practical teaching system,Improve students’ practical and innovative abilities
1, Establish a professional practice system
The school focuses on urban modern agriculture and applied agriculture、The need for comprehensive talents and the positioning of running schools,Through the construction and development of practical teaching bases inside and outside the school,Built a practical teaching system with “four years of continuous practical teaching”,Clear the overall training goals of practical teaching,And decompose it into bet365 online casinoteaching experiments、Graduation internship、Course Design、Graduation internship、Scientific research training and graduation thesis (design)、Military training、Go to various practical links such as public welfare labor and social practice。The practical teaching system is fixed in the teaching plan as relatively independent modules,Throughout the whole process of undergraduate teaching,Become an important link in cultivating students’ practical ability and innovative spirit。
Each major has established a practice system suitable for students in this department through continuous exploration, reform and innovation based on its own characteristics and on the basis of in-depth research。
The "Fundamentals of Agricultural Practice" course hours for the Agricultural Major of the Department of Plant Science and Technology are from the beginning225Course hours increased to300Class hours, from4semester extended to6semester。The characteristics of which improve students’ practical teaching method reform in teaching: students’ classes or teams contract school experimental land in the name of “small operating companies”,Under the guidance of the teacher,Arrange business projects。Students are both producers,At the same time, he also serves as the manager of a certain position in the "company",The whole operation is like a small agricultural production enterprise。Students practice through such teaching,Not only master professional production skills and techniques,And enhanced business and management awareness。
The landscape major of the Department of Landscape Architecture will use the garden planning, design and construction projects undertaken as a classroom for students’ graduation projects and practical teaching,Students participated in garden engineering design and on-site construction hosted by teachers。In recent years,More than a hundred students have completed their graduation thesis in actual projects,If students participate in the design and construction of Tsinghua University’s “Green Garden” and “Second Hospital”、Huihuayuan Central Square Construction、Zhaitang Town Tourism Resources Survey and Planning, etc.,Inspiring students to participate in scientific research、Positiveness of design,Strengthened students’ scientific research training。
The Food Science and Engineering major of the Department of Food Science explores a practical teaching model suitable for professional characteristics。Established a method that can simulate industrial production and processing、Comprehensive laboratory with pilot scale,Let students obtain practical production operation training,Combined with laboratory small experimental product design and graduation thesis (design)、Graduation internship and other contents,Building a practical teaching system。At the same time,Establish a teaching model for technical skills training with the main purpose of strengthening practical skills and management capabilities: centralized teaching → operational training → food production management → market feedback → seminar summary → comprehensive assessment。Third,Established a product design teaching model with the main purpose of cultivating innovative abilities: student selection → design process route → product production → completion of design report → New Food Grand Prix (assessment)。Students’ production management abilities have been trained in the practical teaching system,Innovation capabilities have been improved。
2.Actively explore the reform of primary semester teaching
School since2007Exploring primary semester teaching work at the beginning of the year。Change the normal teaching time of each semester from the original18week changed to17week, specially set aside1week as a small semester。Practice society、Innovative Practice、Social Survey、Building a new countryside、Course Design、Practical activities such as teaching visits and internships are concentrated in the primary semester,Focus on cultivating students’ practical ability and innovative consciousness。In order to promote the smooth development of primary school work,The school has formulated assessment standards,Supervise the laboratories of various colleges (departments)、Development of practical teaching activities,Promote the reform of teaching methods and examination methods,Enable teachers to make full use of teaching time and teaching resources,Improve students’ practical ability,Cultivate students’ sense of pioneering and innovation。
三、Oriented by social needs,Establish a full-process guidance system,Improve students’ career planning abilities
current,What makes it difficult for college bet365 online sports betting mobilestudents to find employment as a whole is that graduates’ employment concepts are relatively outdated,High expectations。Especially agricultural college graduates tend to flock to big cities、Governments and institutions,Unwilling to work in rural areas and at grassroots level,Thus losing competitive advantage。Meanwhile,The composition of students and their psychological status have changed a lot compared to before,Especially20century80The group of college students born after the 1990s has some new characteristics,Concentrated on the worship of consumerism,This makes it even more necessary to change the concept of employment for college students,Improve their career planning capabilities。In recent years,The school carries out typical education for students、Full-process employment guidance, etc.,Continuously update students’ employment concepts,Improve students’ career planning abilities。
1.Pay attention to typical education and update the employment concepts of school students
A typical character is a flag,It is a spirit,It’s even more of an effect。The school digs deep into outstanding graduates,Take typical education as a powerful fulcrum to update school students’ employment concepts,Make full use of the role models of outstanding graduates。The school serves the grassroots every year,Take root at the grassroots level、Making outstanding contributions is the selection criterion,Selecting a group of outstanding graduates。Invite them to school。By telling your own personal examples,Tell me about your feelings at the grassroots level,In order to encourage the enthusiasm of fighting at the grassroots level in schools,Cultivating students to work hard、The concept of serving the grassroots,Updating the old concept of graduates finding employment in cities。2005Year,The school selected Jia Hui、Guan Zhongxin、Cao Yanchun and other typical figures taking root in rural areas;2006Year,In conjunction with the school’s 50th anniversary,Via self-recommendation、A method that combines mass recommendation and organizational recommendation,Selected ten outstanding graduates including Li Zhenru;These advanced and typical deeds deeply affect every college student in the school,Encouraged and guided school students to seek employment at the grassroots level。Dedicate your youth,Service at the grassroots level,It has become a broad consensus among college students to develop their careers in remote suburban counties。
2.Establish a full-process employment guidance system
The school develops a detailed career guidance education plan,Put employment education throughout the four years of college。Each department in the school is providing education for freshmen,Publish the knowledge and information about employment education and career planning of college students to freshmen,Use various opportunities and occasions to publicize the current situation of grassroots development and the pros and cons of college students going to grassroots development;Sophomore year students are encouraged to love their majors,Work hard to learn professional basic courses,Use summer vacation to get in touch with society,Carry out social practice,Learn about the current job status of former alumni,Understand what kind of talents are needed in suburban counties and rural areas,Let them understand the grassroots,Love the grassroots;Learn about the current job status of former alumni,Through rational understanding of society,As well as outstanding deeds report meeting and symposium,Determine your career direction,Know your own strengths and weaknesses,Thus improving employment competitiveness;The senior year is mainly for graduates to learn about employment policies and various preferential policies,Training and practicing graduates’ employability,such as interview coaching、Resume coaching、Pre-exam tutoring for civil servants, etc.。By analyzing the current employment situation,Convene a campus job fair,Enable graduates to clarify their thinking,Gradually establish a correct outlook on career choice and employment expectations,Attract their attention to the grassroots in Beijing。With the deepening of learning,Employment guidance classes are also integrated into the course study,The teacher will introduce the application of the professional knowledge learned in the professional field,And various rules that should be followed in the application,To enable students to have a clear understanding of future positions。As I approach graduation,In order to let students experience employment experience,Increase job search experience,The bet365 online sports bettingschool invited outstanding graduates from the past,Teach job hunting experience、Interview skills and other experience。2007Year,The school has established an entrepreneurship education teaching and research section,Student Entrepreneurship Fund established,And conducted entrepreneurship education for school students。At the same time,It has also established a base for college students to establish entrepreneurial bases for college students,Establishing a teaching team,Perfect curriculum system,Encourage students to start their own businesses,Encourage students to start their own businesses。Vote through implementation of full-process employment guidance,Enable students to gradually establish a correct outlook on employment,Improved students’ career planning abilities。
The school updates students’ employment concepts,Implement full-process employment guidance,The employment positioning of graduates is more clear。In recent years,The number of school graduates who go to work at the grassroots level accounts for the total number of graduates50%Above. since2006Beijing recruits village party branch secretary assistants from college graduates、Since Assistant to the Director of the Village Committee,Our school has it every year35%Graduates above are registered.
The school is oriented to social needs,By renewing ideas,Deepening the reform of education and teaching,Improved students’ career planning abilities、Professional application ability and practical development and innovation ability,Thus satisfying society’s demand for composite types、The need for application-oriented talents,Greatly improve the competitiveness of graduates in the job market。In recent years,In an environment where it is difficult for graduates to find employment,The employment rate of our school graduates reaches95%Above, traditional agricultural majors have even reached a contract signing rate100%, employer satisfaction rate for our school graduates94%Above.
(Author’s unit: Beijing Agricultural College Wang Xiaoxia is the deputy secretary of the party committee)