At the first MOE press conference of 2021 held on January 27, Yu Fayou, Deputy President of the NIES, introduced an evaluation report for the implementation of the Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Teacher Development in All Respects for the New Era which was conducted by NIES.
The assessment report indicates significant advancement in the development and reform of teacher workforce in the new era, which could be concluded as follows: the Party’s leadership has been strengthened in all aspects of teacher capacity building, while teachers’ morality has largely improved. At the same time, big strides have been made in the integrated reform of teacher education, along with further optimization of teacher management and greater input into the development of teachers, making the teaching profession more appealing.
The report also identifies existing shortcomings in teacher workforce development. For example, teacher workforce development still needs to be advanced, teacher management mechanism requires innovation, and teachers’ sense of fulfillment should be further improved. Given these, the assessment report suggests improving the accountability of local government and Party committees, especially the political responsibilities of provincial Party committees in teachers’ capacity building, building a high-quality teacher education system, and deepening the integrated reform of teacher management, with a view to reducing workload for teachers and developing a long-term mechanism easing pressure on teachers.
The evaluation was conducted by NIES under the authorization of MOE’s Department of Teacher Education. In the past three years, an assessment group analyzed reports from 31 provincial-level regions, key monitoring data of 9 provinces and their 51 districts and counties, and more than 10,000 teacher surveys, and then produced an assessment report.
