Author(s)

Hongwei Ding, Hongmei Li, Ying Ou

Corresponding Author

Hongmei Li

Abstract

Local universities in China are confronted with a transform to application-oriented type, so teacher development idea for local universities needs a change accordingly. Scientific teacher development ideas should correspond to local universities' orientation which reflects on the aspects of teaching, scientific research and social service. As for teaching, all the curricula, teaching materials and teaching methodology should orient to application. As for scientific research, applied researches and teaching research should be given priority. In term of social service, local region and grassroots should be the main service objects. Nowadays, people still have some misunderstandings on local university teachers' development ideas and results in some incorrect practice, which need to corrected by renewing ideas, reforming guarantee system and strengthening operation mechanism.

Keywords

Local University, Application-oriented University, Teacher development idea