CESE Organizes Faculty for 2024 Seminar on Environmental Teaching Reform"

From November 15 to 18, 2024, the 2024 New Era Symposium on Environmental Teaching Reform and Innovation in Universities was held in Tianjin. The symposium aimed to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 2024 National Education Conference, promote the integrated development of education, science, and talent cultivation, strengthen the training of top-tier innovative talent, accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system, and build a highly competent and professional teaching workforce. Our faculty organized a delegation of over ten representatives to participate and exchange experiences on cultivating outstanding environmental talent with educators from universities across the country.

The symposium focused on several key topics, including the construction of environmental disciplines and the independent cultivation of top-tier innovative talent, the integration of artificial intelligence in innovating and applying teaching materials for environmental courses, the development of higher education teaching materials in strategic emerging fields during the "14th Five-Year Plan," and the cultivation and development of teaching design and practical abilities for young university educators. Faculty members from our college, including Chen Ling, Liu Jia, Meng Xiangzhou, Xie Li, Zhang Hua, Tang Xianchun, and Peng Wei, actively participated in discussions on various topics. They shared Tongji University's achievements in areas such as curriculum-based ideological education, environmental monitoring, solid waste experiments, and the compilation of teaching materials for environmental microbiology during the breakout sessions.

Additionally, our faculty submitted several teaching reform papers, which were included in the Proceedings of the 2024 New Era Symposium on Environmental Teaching Reform and Innovation in Universities.

It is noteworthy that the predecessor of the New Era Symposium on Environmental Teaching Reform and Innovation in Universities was the University Environmental Courses Forum, initiated by the Higher Education Press in 2006. Held annually since then, it has become the most influential national conference in the field of higher education teaching for environmental disciplines.