Enhancing the Affinity and Targetedness of Ideological and Political Education

The ideological and political course is a key course for carrying out the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing people [1]1 “Fostering virtue and nurturing people” (立德树人) is a core principle of Chinese education policy, emphasizing moral cultivation as the foundation of talent development., and it plays an irreplaceable and important role in the process of educating people for the Party and cultivating talent for the country. The Education and Sports Bureau of Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, deeply studies and implements General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the construction of ideological and political courses, consciously assumes the historical mission entrusted by the New Era, and continuously builds a “big classroom,” sets up a “big platform,” and builds a “big teaching force” to enhance the affinity and targetedness of ideological and political education, constructing a new work pattern of “big ideological and political courses” with Liaocheng characteristics. With lofty political faith, firm political stance, and correct political direction, it guides students to consciously listen to the Party, feel the Party’s kindness, and follow the Party.

思政课是落实立德树人根本任务的关键课程，在为党育人、为国育才过程中发挥着不可替代的重要作用。山东省聊城市教育和体育局深入学习贯彻习近平总书记关于思政课建设的重要论述，自觉承担新时代赋予的历史使命，持续建设“大课堂”、搭建“大平台”、建好“大师资”，提升思想政治教育亲和力、针对性，构建具有聊城特色的“大思政课”工作新格局，用崇高的政治信仰、坚定的政治立场、正确的政治方向，引导学生自觉听党话、感党恩、跟党走。

Focus on building the team of ideological and political course teachers. Take the construction of the ideological and political course teacher team as the focal point, improve the evaluation standards for ideological and political course teachers, and further enhance the creative and innovative abilities of the vast number of ideological and political course teachers. First, fully staff and strengthen ideological and political course teachers. Strictly implement relevant regulations, actively seek support from departments such as human resources and social security and the establishment committee, and select and build a strong team of ideological and political course teachers on a merit basis. Currently, there are a total of 10,782 ideological and political course teachers, including 3,966 full-time ideological and political teachers. By assigning ideological and political course teachers and forming lecture groups, improve the teaching level of ideological and political courses in private schools. Second, strengthen professional training and the construction of teacher ethics and conduct. Regularly organize professional training for ideological and political course teachers in teaching concepts, teaching methods, subject knowledge, etc., encourage teachers to participate in academic exchanges and seminars, broaden teachers’ academic horizons, and improve teachers’ academic levels. Carry out the “Qinglan Project” [2]2 The “Qinglan Project” (青蓝工程) is a mentorship program in Chinese schools where experienced teachers guide younger ones, named after the saying “blue comes from indigo but is bluer than indigo” (青出于蓝而胜于蓝). assistance plan, implement the shaping project for the ideological and political course teacher team, give full play to the “passing on, helping, and leading” role of ideological and political course teachers, focus on improving the political quality, professional ability, and educational level of ideological and political course teachers, and build a high-quality ideological and political course teacher team with both virtue and talent. Third, focus on innovating the evaluation and incentive mechanism for ideological and political course teachers. Establish master teacher studios for ideological and political courses, and ensure that they enjoy the same treatment as teachers of other subjects in terms of professional title evaluation and employment, on-the-job training, commendation and rewards, etc. Select 10 municipal-level annual ideological and political course teachers, 51 outstanding ideological and political course teachers, and 99 teaching experts in ideological and political courses. Select 103 teachers on a merit basis to form a municipal-level ideological and political expert talent pool, participating in ideological and political education teaching research, document compilation, teacher training, teaching evaluation, etc., to promote the innovative development of ideological and political education.

着力抓好思政课教师队伍建设。把思政课教师队伍建设作为着力点，改进思政课教师评价标准，进一步增强广大思政课教师的创造创新能力。一是配齐配强思政课教师。严格落实有关规定，积极争取人社、编办等部门支持，择优配齐建强思政课教师队伍。目前，共有思政课教师10782人，其中，专职思政老师3966人。通过指派思政课教师和组建讲师团，提升民办学校思政课教学水平。二是加强专业培训和师德师风建设。定期组织思政课教师进行教学理念、教学方法、学科知识等方面专业培训，鼓励教师参加学术交流和研讨活动，拓宽教师的学术视野，提高教师学术水平。开展“青蓝工程”帮扶计划，实施思政课教师队伍塑造工程，发挥思政课教师“传帮带”作用，着力提升思政课教师政治素质、业务能力、育人水平，打造德业双馨的高素质思政课教师队伍。三是注重创新思政课教师评价激励机制。成立思政课名师工作室，在职称评聘、在职培训和表彰奖励等方面与其他科目教师享受同等待遇。评选市级思政课教师年度人物10人、优秀思政课教师51人、思政课教学能手99人。择优遴选103名教师组建市级思政专家人才库，参与思想政治教育教学研究、文献编写、教师培训、教学评选等工作，推动思政教育创新发展。

Vigorously promote the reform and innovation of “big ideological and political courses.” Adhere to the construction concept of “ideological and political course is the first course,” consolidate and integrate the ideological and political resources of the city’s universities, middle schools, and primary schools, fully promote co-construction and co-research, improve the level of integrated development of ideological and political courses, and promote the collaborative education of school “small classrooms,” social “big classrooms,” and online “cloud classrooms.” First, focus on resource integration. Deeply explore red resources and advanced model typical resources, strengthen integration and fusion, and strive to build a curriculum material system rich in Liaocheng’s local characteristics. At the same time, strengthen curriculum integration, create a teaching method of “ideological and political courses + curriculum ideology and politics” with two-way interaction and collaborative education. Organize a series of ideological and political theme education activities and ideological and political course exchange and display activities, and 4 courses were awarded Shandong Province school ideological and political “gold courses.” [3]3 “Gold courses” (金课) is a term used in Chinese education reform to refer to high-quality, exemplary courses that are rigorous, innovative, and effective, as opposed to “watery courses” (水课) of low quality. Second, innovate methods and carriers. Innovate teaching processes, innovate teaching carriers, explore the introduction of modern information technology means into the classroom, enhance the novelty and attractiveness of classroom teaching design from aspects such as course introduction, interdisciplinary integration, and classroom interaction, ensuring that classroom teaching has both rich content and “flavor and nutrition.” Make good use of digital resources, build a cloud-based ideological and political big classroom, launch 8 Liaocheng ideological and political micro-courses with local characteristics, and build a broad online learning platform for students. Third, build a sharing platform. Establish the Liaocheng City Research and Guidance Center for the Integrated Construction of Ideological and Political Courses in Universities, Middle Schools, and Primary Schools, establish the Liaocheng City Alliance for the Integrated Construction of Ideological and Political Courses in Universities, Middle Schools, and Primary Schools, and promote the integrated construction of ideological and political courses in universities, middle schools, and primary schools through various methods. Release the first batch of 3 categories and 12 Liaocheng City big ideological and political course theme routes (classrooms), covering 59 points, providing a cooperation and exchange platform for realizing the integration and collaborative education of universities, middle schools, and primary schools. Fourth, create characteristic brands. Tap local ideological and political resources, actively build the “Two Rivers Ideological and Political” brand, simultaneously promote the construction of “one county (city, district) one ideological and political brand,” forming brands such as Dong’a Yellow River Culture Ideological and Political Gold Course, Dongchangfu District’s “Red Education in Dongchangfu,” Chiping District’s “Chiping Broad Thinking,” Shen County’s “Ideological and Political Moistening Shen County, Cultivating Virtue and Gathering Hearts,” etc., achieving good educational and publicity effects.

全力推动“大思政课”改革创新。秉持“思政课是第一课”建设理念，凝聚整合全市高校、中学、小学的思政资源，全力推进共建、共研，提高思政课一体化发展水平，推进学校“小课堂”、社会“大课堂”和网络“云课堂”协同育人。一是注重资源融合。深挖红色资源、先进模范典型资源，加强整合融合，努力构建富有聊城地方特色的课程素材体系。同时，加强课程融合，打造“思政课程+课程思政”双向互动、协同育人的教学方式。组织开展系列思政主题教育活动、思政课交流展示活动，4门课程被授予山东省学校思政“金课”。二是创新方式载体。创新教学流程，创新教学载体，探索将现代信息技术手段引入课堂，从课程导入、学科交叉、课堂互动等方面增强课堂教学设计新颖性、吸引力，做到课堂教学既有丰富内容，又有“味道营养”。用好数字资源，搭建云上思政大课堂，推出8节具有地方特色的聊城思政微课，为学生搭建广阔的线上学习平台。三是搭建共享平台。设立聊城市大中小学思政课一体化建设研究指导中心，成立聊城市大中小学思政课一体化建设联盟，多种方式推进大中小学思政课一体化建设。发布首批3类12个聊城市大思政课主题线路（课堂），涵盖59个点位，为实现大中小学融会贯通、一体化协同育人提供合作交流平台。四是打造特色品牌。挖掘地方思政资源，积极打造“两河思政”品牌，同步推进“一县（市、区）一思政品牌”建设，形成东阿黄河文化思政金课、东昌府区“红育东昌府”、茌平区“茌思广益”、莘县“思政润莘立德聚心”等品牌，取得了良好的教育效果和宣传效果。

Consolidate the school front of “big ideological and political courses.” Strive to build a work pattern with unified leadership of the Party committee, joint management of the Party and government, and respective responsibilities of relevant departments. First, consolidate leadership responsibilities. The main leading comrades of the Party and government take the lead in giving ideological and political courses, and the Party organization secretary and principal of the school strictly fulfill the responsibilities of the first person responsible for the construction of ideological and political courses, taking the lead in doing a good job in the construction of ideological and political courses. Support rural schools to explore methods such as teachers “teaching by walking” and “sending teaching” to give good ideological and political courses. Improve the assessment and evaluation mechanism for school Party building, school-running quality, and discipline construction, take the construction of ideological and political courses as an important indicator of assessment, and provide support for running ideological and political courses well. Second, fully ensure guarantees. Adhere to opening up ideological and political courses, encourage Party and government organs, enterprises and institutions, etc., to connect with schools nearby, establish and hang signs for ideological and political course practice teaching bases, promote the combination of ideological and political course practice teaching with student social practice activities and volunteer service activities, and the combination of small ideological and political classrooms and big social classrooms, expanding multi-dimensional space for the construction of ideological and political courses in the New Era. Coordinate and plan the three-level collective lesson preparation system of “municipal demonstration + regional coordination + school promotion,” promote the sharing of teaching resources and the exchange of teaching experience, and form a good pattern of integrated leadership, professional operation, and collaborative education. Third, strengthen supervision and assessment. Focus on comprehensively evaluating the teaching performance and teaching effects of ideological and political course teachers, formulate quantifiable scientific standards such as teaching quality, teaching content, teaching methods, and student satisfaction, and adopt more operable methods such as student evaluation, peer review, and expert assessment to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of ideological and political course teachers from multiple angles. Pay attention to the application of supervision and assessment results, and promptly feedback the supervision and assessment results to the teachers themselves to help them improve and enhance.

筑牢“大思政课”学校阵地。着力构建党委统一领导、党政齐抓共管、有关部门各负其责的工作格局。一是压实领导责任。党政主要负责同志带头讲思政课，学校党组织书记、校长严格履行思政课建设第一责任人的职责，带头抓好思政课建设。支持乡村学校探索教师“走教”“送教”等方式上好思政课。完善学校党建工作、办学质量和学科建设考核评价机制，把思政课建设作为考核的重要指标，为办好思政课提供支撑。二是全力抓好保障。坚持开门办思政课，鼓励党政机关、企事业单位等就近与学校对接，挂牌建立思政课实践教学基地，推动思政课实践教学与学生社会实践活动、志愿服务活动结合，思政小课堂和社会大课堂结合，为新时代思政课建设扩展多维空间。统筹规划“市级示范+区域协同+学校推进”三级集体备课系统，促进教学资源共享和教学经验交流，形成一体化领导、专业化运行、协同化育人的良好格局。三是加强督导考核。着眼全面评估思政课教师的教学表现和教学效果，制定教学质量、教学内容、教学方法、学生满意度等可量化的科学标准，采用学生评价、同行评议、专家评估等更具有可操作性的方式，从多个角度对思政课教师进行全面评价。注重督导考核结果运用，将督导考核结果及时反馈给教师本人，帮助改进提升。

The ideological and political course bears the major mission of forging souls and nurturing people. The Liaocheng City Education and Sports Bureau will continue to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the Party’s education policy, and do a good job in the great article of ideological and political courses with a sense of responsibility that “if not me, then who,” contributing more Liaocheng strength to the construction of a strong educational country and a strong educational province.

思政课担负着铸魂育人的重大使命。聊城市教育和体育局将持续深入学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想，全面贯彻党的教育方针，以舍我其谁的责任担当做好思政课这篇大文章，为教育强国、强省建设贡献更多聊城力量。

(The author is the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Education Work Committee of the Liaocheng Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Education and Sports Bureau)

（作者系山东省聊城市委教育工委常务副书记，教育和体育局党组书记、局长）

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