The Voice of CCMU Central China Normal University conscientiously study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on education, implement the fundamental task of building morality and cultivate people, take the construction of the counselor team as an important part of the teaching team building, strengthen the management of counselor selection and recruitment, training and professional growth, continuously improve the professional level and professional ability of the counselor team, and strive to create a high-level counselor team with strong politics, professionalism, strict discipline and positive work style.
Strengthen selection management
Select the best team of counselors
Strictly control the "entry gate" of the counselors, assign a team of full-time counselors according to the teacher-student ratio of 1:200, and select part-time counselors and community counselors from professional teachers, party and government management cadres, and outstanding graduate students, forming a combination of full-time and part-time counselors, adequate number of high-quality counselors team. Strictly control the "assessment" of counselors, carry out the work assessment of counselors every year, and improve the assessment and evaluation system for the counselor team through many kinds of ways, such as, student assessment, counselor self-assessment, peer evaluation, grass-roots party committee assessment, and school evaluation and so on. Highlight the work performance and the actual effect of educating people and these will be linked to the evaluation results of the counselor's performance assessment, job promotion, professional title evaluation and employment, and evaluation of excellence, rewards and awards to counselors with excellent grades. Strictly control the "business" of the counselors, firmly establish the "student-centered" education concept, and require the counselors to do the "six ones" work, that is, to have a heart-to-heart conversation with the students no less than once a day, and to carry out ideological and political theme education no less than once every week, visit to the student dormitory no less than one every two weeks, attend classes no less than one every two weeks, teaching ideological and political courses no less than one every semester, and home visits no less than one every year. The communication between counselors and students, parents, professional teachers, and community administrators was comprehensively strengthened, and all-round care was given to the growth of students.
Strengthen training and cultivate excellence
Comprehensively improve the quality of counselors
Incorporate counselor training into the overall training plan for school teachers and cadres, formulate an annual training plan for counselors, focus on improving training capabilities, take innovative training methods as a means, and improve training quality as the goal, and strive to improve the core quality and professional ability of counselors, counselors are required to participate in at least 20 hours of training at all levels throughout the year, so as to realize the standardization, normalization, and hours of counselor training. Organizing special induction training for new counselors to enhance their job adaptability. Regularly hold "Counselor Salon", organize national ideological and political experts, ideological and political young and middle-aged backbone special report meetings, invite "the most beautiful college counselor", "college counselor figure of the year", and the first prize winner of the counselor quality ability competition as well as leading cadres who have served as counselors to exchange experience, comprehensively improve the professional knowledge and theoretical literacy of the ideological and political work of the counselor team. Carry out "immersion" education, organize counselors to experience learning in the former residence of the great man, the revolutionary memorial hall, the history museum, the red education base, and the Patriotism education base, and educate and guide the counselors to strengthen their ideals and beliefs and improve their ability to educate people. Pay attention to the role of innovation and development centers for ideological and political work in colleges and training and training centers for ideological and political work teams in colleges and universities, encourage recommending excellent counselors to pursue doctoral degrees on the job, organize counselors to participate in national demonstration training, provincial backbone training and so on and expand the coverage of training, and carry out professional quality and ability improvement training for the counselor team by topic.
Strengthen professional growth
Actively assist the development of counselors
Establish a counselor's growth file, realize "one person, one file", implement digital management and whole-process tracking, and grasp the counselor's personal development needs in a timely manner. Implement hierarchical and classified guidance, according to the professional advantages and work expertise of counselors, classify and organize eight types of counselor learning communities, including "ideological education", "business service", "mental health", "cultural practice", "network ideological and political", "academic counseling" and "employment" and “academic research” and so on. Select and recruit guidance teachers from inside and outside the school, regularly organize learning and exchange activities, strengthen professional guidance and assistance, promote the professionalization of the counselor team, and strive to cultivate expert counselor. Hold counselor quality ability competition, use competition to promote training, use competition to promote training, and use competition to enhance ability, strengthen discussion, case, simulation, and experiential practical teaching, consolidate and improve the ability of counselors to relieve psychological confusion and carry out psychological counseling and help students develop the ability to participate in coping and dealing with psychological crises. Strengthen the construction of the "smart study and work" system, strengthen the information literacy of counselors, and improve the ability of counselors to manage information-based affairs. Select and nurture the "Counselor Famous Teacher Studio", provide special financial support, equip special tutors, and strive to create a counselor work demonstration area and "model room". Strengthen the cultivation and incubation of projects, set up special projects for ideological and political work at the school level, cultivate and incubate excellent theoretical research and practical work projects of ideological and political work, and strive to create an ideological and political academic discourse system and work quality projects with school characteristics.
Source: The Voice of CCNU
Translator: Zhang Yishan
Date: May 27, 2022
