General Idea

Guangdong Teachers College of Foreign Language and Arts (GTCFLA)is a state-owned full-time institute of higher education with five-year primary and pre-school teacher education as its distinctive strengths. It was founded in 2001 through the merger of GuangdongForeignLanguageNormal School and GuangdongArtNormal School established in 1978 and 1983 respectively. With distinctive features of humanities education and abundant education resources, it was granted A (Excellence) in the assessment of student cultivation project organized by the Ministry of Education in June, 2007.And in August 2013, the college has become the provincial demonstrative college construction unit.

GTCFLAwith a profound historical origin and academic tradition is an important base ofGuangdongProvince to train teachers. Our collegeis good at personnel training, according to the Guangdong Provincial Education Department and the Mycos data cooperation to carry out the "graduates of Higher Vocational Colleges in Guangdong Province training quality results tracking survey 2012 annual report", in the higher vocational colleges training quality results in six main indexes to evaluate the, these two indicators of Master graduate of core knowledge and his alma mater, satisfaction highest ranked the first place in the province's higher vocational colleges; graduates employment status of satisfaction and graduated from the grasp of the basic work ability index ranked second in the province's higher vocational colleges; graduates within half year turnover rate is low, with professional related degree high, the job stability. In recent years, the school continued to gain "advanced unit in the National Art Education in schools," the national language work advanced collective "," national language standardization demonstration school "," national college campus culture construction achievement award of excellence "," Guangdong Province vocational education advanced collective "the first in Guangdong universities campus culture construction in Higher Vocational College Award", "Guangdong Province primary and secondary school teachers' continuing education advanced unit", "hired the foreign cultural and educational experts advanced unit", "onsite Chinese language teachers outstanding contributions to schools" title.

Located in the traditional Wushan university area in Guangzhou, it comprises of Wushan Campus and Yanling Campus. Department of International Business, Department of Music, Department of Information Technology, Department of Dance, Department of Ideological and Political Theory Teaching, Department of Basic Courses and School of Continuing Education are in Wushan Campus.Department of Foreign Languages,Department of Pre-school Education, Department of Chinese Language and Culture are in Yanling Campus.

There exist 41 major (direction), 9597 full-time students, and adult education in reading 5510 students. Based upon the principle of “school-industry partnership and study-work interaction”, the college has established five groups of programs with distinctive features: teacher education, language and culture, art designing, performing and computer application. Two courses have been assessed and identified as the Elite Courses on the national scale, and six others, on the provincial scale.10 provincial excellent resource sharing class project construction course, 1 provincial excellent video open class project construction course, 4 door of Ministry of education of Vocational Higher Vocational Teaching Steering Committee courses, 2 door Guangdong Province Colleges and universities thought political theory lesson quality (construction) course; continuous Canton won the province east of the fifth, sixth, seventh higher education teaching achievement first prize.

International education school is equipped with advanced and well-facilitated practice laboratories and research fields. So far there have been 2 training bases supported by Central Finance Ministry, 13 campus training bases among which 5 are provisional key ones and 450 off-campus training bases. Its training facilities and conditions prove to be in the leading row among similar colleges in Guangzhou.

International education school is strong in teaching faculties. Of the 555 members, 372 are full-time teachers with 16 given senior title, 117 vice-senior title, 6 as doctor/master tutors, which has established a bi-lateral teaching team between school and school-enterprises guided by the concept of “mutual flow, mutual understanding, mutual cooperation and mutual supervision” and its bi-teaching proportion has reached 79.24%.At present there are 2 national outstanding teachers, 17 Nanyue outstanding teachers in Guangzhou,7 Nanyue new outstanding teachers, 1 Guangdong provisional top teachers, 1 provisional nominate and 12 school-level nominates for the project of “thousand hundred ten”, 7 school-level outstanding teaching teams, 21 leaders in specific majors and 35 ethics in researching. Besides, the college is doing its best to enlarge international academic exchanges and provide more opportunities for young teachers to further studies abroad with 1/4 full-time teachers having overseas studies. Moreover, some teachers’ works have been in the collection list of Great Hall of the People, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall,SchweizerischesLandesmuseum and so on.

The library covering nearly 12984.09 square meters has a collection of 991500 books, 16 databases and 10752.4GB image data. In addition, a considerably large-scaled campus web has been set up and covered the two campuses with 11200 network information point in total.

Education Plan

International education school is dedicated to the construction of “high strong big” talent cultivation system (high professional quality, strong employability and big potential) so as to develop more “double-core” talents (Professional core ability&major core ability).Additionally, a principle for such system building has been put forward that “logically located, scientifically planned, teaching effective, faculty qualified and managed well. What’s more, school gets rid of the past dull cultivation mode of “teacher, textbook and class” and replaces it with “4+1”curriculum system, 4 representing curriculum for core professional ability. basic qualities, major basics and core major,1 for major extension curriculum mode. It’s carrying out the diversity cultivation mode including class lecturing, experience class, research class, experience class and self-studies.

Through building up “3 committes&2 centers” respectivelyuniversity-enterprise cooperation management committee, professional guidance committee and teaching guidance committee; employment core ability development center and program teaching center) to be the main tool for integration of various resources, school aims to improve the current system and higher vocational talents of different durations training and form a transfer system from secondary vocational high school to higher vocational talents.

School is the deputy director of primary school teacher education committee in national education association,director chief of Guangdong higher vocational educationforeign language teaching guidance committee, director chief of Guangdong higher vocational education teaching guidance committee,director chief of Guangdong higher vocational educationarts performance teaching guidance committee, director chief of Guangdong higher vocational education pre-school teaching guidance committee and director chief of Guangdong higher vocational educationsecretory teaching committee, and so far has been “Guangzhou training bases for primary principles”, “training bases for primary teachers”, “training bases for ‘hundred、thousand、million’ talents project”,“training bases for high school and associate college teachers” and so on, and entitled to carry out the task of the newly project of basic education teachers’ cultivation called “‘hundred、thousand、million’ talents. As one of the first institutions to promote Chinese traditional culture, school has set up a series of organization like “Lin Xianhui Guangdong Music Research Center” and “100 WomenHCTMG”, finished the “Guangdong music exhibition museum” which is the 1st one to center around Guangdong music and integrate collection、exhibition、research and teaching altogether and taken active part in all cultural activities including the Eighth National University Games,The Eighth National Ethnic Games, The 9th China art festival and The 16th Asian games。Also as the only one associate school among the 6 members doing well in teaching education, school has been given an assignment by Guangdong government to start the cultivation of 5-year-long primary normal education in area of Kashgar of Xinjiang and later in 2012 the assignment to prepare those unemployed higher education graduates for working in mainland, making a huge contribution to the project of education helping Xinjiang and Xinjiang further development.

Located in the forefront of China's reform and opening up, school persists in the tradition of "open and pragmatic" and are doing positive practice in college future blueprint witha more broad international vision. In the past years, school has been active in international cooperation by forming friendly relationships with many world top universities, namely The American College of East Texas Baptist University, Mississippi, the University of Northampton, Canada’sNorth Island College in Sydney, Australia’sNorth College, South Korea’s University of Ulsan, Japan’s Osaka JikeiAcademy, Ukraine’s Odessa National Music College, Russia’sTula National Normal University, ChaoyangUniversity of Technology in Taiwan, KunshanUniversity of Science and Technology, LonghuaUniversity of Science and Technology andGlobal University of Technology. Meanwhile to strengthen the inter-school relationship, different exchange activities have been carried out like principle bi-lateral visits, faculty and students exchange, teachers mutually enjoyed and overseas program, which in turn enhances school reputation greatly. Since 2008, school has been the host of Overseas Chinese Preschool Teacher training courses for five times and cultivated 157 qualified pre-school teachers for ten countries and areas including Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei,Costa Rica,Cambodia, the Philippines,South Korea and Canada. In 2013, school was authorized to be one of the only five high vocational colleges in Guangdong province as the test college to admit students from Hongkong.