Skillfully Using the “Grand Ideological and Political Course” to Cultivate New Talents for the Era

The ideological and political course is a key course for implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing people. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, “Whether the ideological and political

思政课是落实立德树人根本任务的关键课程。习近平总书记指出，“思想政治理论课能否在立德树人中发挥应有作用，关键看重视不重视、适应不适应、做得好不好”，“‘大思政课’我们要善用之，一定要跟现实结合起来”。“大思政课”建设是新时代思政课改革创新的题中应有之义。应通过建立联动机制、建强师资队伍、用好社会课堂等方式，推动新时代思想政治工作守正创新发展，强化思政引领力，努力培养更多让党放心、爱国奉献、担当民族复兴重任的时代新人。

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General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: “Ideological and political work in schools is not a single-line task but should be all-encompassing.” School ideological and political work involves many aspects, such as ideological and political courses, curriculum-based ideological and political education, and daily ideological and political education, and it cannot be a collection of “isolated islands.” To continuously strengthen and improve school ideological and political education in the New Era, we should focus on the overall situation, make coordinated arrangements, adhere to promoting the integrated construction of ideological and political courses in universities, middle schools, and primary schools, work together to form synergy, promote the high-quality development of ideological and political course construction, and continuously create a new situation in ideological and political education in the New Era.

习近平总书记指出：“学校思想政治工作不是单纯一条线的工作，而应该是全方位的。”学校思政工作涉及思政课程、课程思政、日常思政教育等许多方面，不能是一座座“孤岛”。不断加强和改进新时代学校思想政治教育，应着眼全局、统筹部署，坚持统筹推进大中小学思政课一体化建设，协同发力、形成合力，推动思政课建设高质量发展，不断开创新时代思政教育新局面。

Adhere to ideological guidance and strengthen top-level design. To run the “Grand Ideological and Political Course” well, it is necessary to strengthen the Party’s leadership over the construction of ideological and political theory courses. The Party secretary and president of the school should take the lead in entering the classroom, in promoting the construction of ideological and political courses, and in contacting ideological and political course teachers. Timely integrate the latest achievements of the Party’s innovative theories into the teaching of ideological and political courses, persist in using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to cultivate souls and educate people, embed value guidance within knowledge transmission and ability cultivation, and help students establish a correct worldview, outlook on life, and value system through subtle influence.

坚持思想引领，强化顶层设计。办好“大思政课”，必须加强党对思想政治理论课建设的领导，学校党委书记、校长要带头走进课堂，带头推动思政课建设，带头联系思政课老师。及时将党的创新理论最新成果融入思政课教学，坚持用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想铸魂育人，将价值引领蕴含在知识传授和能力培养中，在潜移默化中帮助学生树立正确的世界观、人生观、价值观。

Strengthen coordination and linkage, and gather forces from all sides. Ideological and political work is a systematic project that requires mobilizing all educational subjects, exploring all educational resources, and forming a powerful educational synergy. We should deeply grasp the new situation and new tasks, clarify the responsibilities and tasks of departments (units), promote the integration of ideological and political work throughout the talent cultivation system, give play to the synergistic effect of moral education through integrated, embedded, and infiltrative methods, and strive to achieve all-staff, whole-process, and all-round education.

强化协同联动，凝聚各方力量。思想政治工作是一项系统性工程，需要调动各方育人主体、发掘一切育人资源、形成强大育人合力。应深刻把握新形势新任务，明确部门（单位）职责任务，推动思想政治工作贯通人才培养体系，发挥融入式、嵌入式、渗入式的立德树人协同效应，着力实现全员全程全方位育人。

Address shortcomings and problems, and promote balanced development. To strengthen the construction of ideological and political courses in the New Era, we must not only base ourselves on the overall situation and make overall plans, but also look to the long term, make up for shortcomings, and strive to solve the problem of unbalanced development. Actively encourage universities to form teaching reform and innovation consortia with urban and rural primary and secondary schools, have ideological and political course teachers deliver lessons to the countryside, select teachers, cadres, and students for follow-up training in schools, establish a cloud platform for teaching research, learning, and resource sharing, promote the integration of textbooks, teaching, teams, and resources for ideological and political education in universities, middle schools, and primary schools, and promote the balanced development of urban and rural education.

补齐问题短板，推动均衡发展。加强新时代思政课建设，既要立足全局、统筹规划，又要着眼长远、补齐短板，着力解决发展不均衡问题。积极鼓励高校与城区、乡村中小学组建教学改革创新联合体，思政课教师送课下乡，选派教师、干部和学生到校跟岗培训，建立教研、学习和资源共享云平台，推动大中小学思政教育教材贯通、教学融通、队伍打通、资源互通，促进城乡教育均衡发展。

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The key to running ideological and political courses well lies in the teachers, and the key lies in giving full play to the teachers’ enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity. We should innovate the training mechanism, refine the full-time teacher team, and improve the political quality, professional ethics, and professional competence of full-time teachers. Innovate the selection mechanism, broaden the part-time teacher team, establish a social lecturer resource library, construct a three-dimensional echelon of ideological and political course teachers, and form a “Grand Ideological and Political” teacher team.

办好思政课关键在教师，关键在发挥教师的积极性、主动性、创造性。应创新培养机制，做精专职教师队伍，提高专任教师的政治素质、职业道德、专业素养创新选拔机制，做宽兼职教师队伍，建立社会讲师资源库，立体构建思政课教师梯队，组建“大思政”教师团队。

Strengthen team connectivity and promote diversified integration. Ideological and political courses should be taught by teachers with firm beliefs, profound knowledge, and a solid theoretical foundation. We should guide the vast number of ideological and political course teachers to consciously practice their basic skills according to the requirements of “strong politics, deep feelings, new thinking, broad vision, strict self-discipline, and upright character,” teach every ideological and political course well, so that students truly like them and benefit from them for life. Coordinate resources and forces from all sides, fully equip and strengthen full-time ideological and political course teachers and counselors in universities. Form lecture groups, select and appoint “Five Elders”[1]1 The “Five Elders” (五老) refers to five categories of veteran cadres, veterans, experts, model workers, and teachers, often mobilized in China to participate in ideological and political education for youth. lecturers, heroic model figures, etc., to promote the diversified integration of the ideological and political education teacher team.

强化队伍互通，推动多元融合。思政课要让信仰坚定、学识渊博、理论功底深厚的教师来讲，应引导广大思政课教师自觉按照“政治要强、情怀要深、思维要新、视野要广、自律要严、人格要正”的要求练好基本功，讲好每一堂思政课，让学生真心喜爱、终身受益。统筹各方资源力量，配齐配强高校专职思政课教师、辅导员。组建宣讲团，选聘“五老”宣讲员、英模人物等，推动思政教育师资队伍多元融合。

Strengthen training and cultivation, and enhance work ability. To run ideological and political courses well, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of a high-quality team of ideological and political teachers, continuously improve their comprehensive literacy and teaching ability, give play to the leading role of typical teaching achievements, and let teachers deeply understand “what to teach” and “how to teach.” For example, actively carry out activities such as the selection of gold medal ideological and political teachers and the selection of excellent teaching cases; select young lecturers for follow-up learning, form high-quality ideological and political education teams, and ensure that the construction of curriculum-based ideological and political education is implemented and effective. In teaching practice, teachers should pay attention to methods and means, strive to explain the principles deeply, thoroughly, and vividly, and at the same time, combine the physical and mental characteristics of young people, comply with the development trend of technology, and enhance the timeliness and appeal of the course.

加强培训培养，提升工作能力。办好思政课，必须加强高素质思政教师队伍建设，不断提升其综合素养和教学能力，发挥教学成果典型引领作用，让教师深刻领悟“教什么”和“怎么教”。如，积极开展金牌思政教师推选、优秀教学案例评选等活动；选派年轻讲师跟岗学习，组建高质量思政育人团队，确保课程思政建设落地落实、见功见效。教师在教学实践中要注重方式方法，努力把道理讲深、讲透、讲活，同时结合青少年身心特点、顺应技术发展趋势，增强课程的时代感和吸引力。

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General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out, “Ideological and political courses should not only be taught in the classroom but also in social life.” Ideological and political courses should actively move towards the vast real world, integrate into daily life reality, engage in dialogue with history, advance with the times, and interact with practice, enhancing the guiding power of ideology and politics through the interconnection of history and reality and the combination of theory and practice.

习近平总书记指出，“思政课不仅应该在课堂上讲，也应该在社会生活中来讲”。思政课要主动迈向广阔的现实世界，融入日常生活实际，与历史对话、与时代共进、与实践互动，在历史与现实相贯通、理论与实践相结合中提升思政引领力。

Adhere to open schooling and strengthen resource integration. Schools should hold ideological and political courses in red education bases, fields, and enterprise workshops, extending them to the scenes of volunteer services, social research activities, etc., gathering online and offline, in-class and out-of-class, on-campus and off-campus resources, forming a teaching synergy and course linkage of “every course educates, everyone educates, everywhere educates.” On the basis of in-depth research, build practical education bases for the “Grand Ideological and Political Course” to highlight the effectiveness of ideological and political education.

坚持开门办学，强化资源融通。学校应将思政课开在红色教育基地、田间地头和企业车间等场所，延伸到志愿服务、社会研学等活动现场，汇聚线上线下、课内课外、校内校外各类资源，形成“课课育人、人人育人、处处育人”的教学协同和课程联动。在深入调研的基础上，打造“大思政课”实践教育基地，突出思政教育实效。

Tap into local resources and create distinctive courses. Ideological and political course teaching is a very creative task. It is necessary to carry out diversified explorations in the teaching process, continuously discover ideological and political elements around us, and achieve teaching goals through various methods. Fully utilize local red education bases and other ideological and political education resources, carry out revolutionary tradition and patriotic education activities, and organize students to participate in “ideological and political courses in venues” and “walking ideological and political courses.” Invite famous ideological and political teachers to conduct online teaching, launch high-quality ideological and political courses such as “micro ideological and political courses” and “ideological and political courses in cinemas,” and create a “mobile red classroom.”

挖掘本地资源，打造特色课程。思政课教学是一项非常有创造性的工作，要在教学过程中进行多样化探索，不断发掘身边的思政元素，通过多种方式实现教学目标。充分运用本地的红色教育基地等思政教育资源，开展革命传统、爱国主义教育活动，组织学生参加“场馆里的思政课”“行走的思政课”等。邀请思政名师开展线上教学，推出“微思政课”“电影院里的思政课”等思政精品课程，打造“流动的红色课堂”。

Broaden the classroom field and strengthen practical training. Organically combine the “small ideological and political classroom” with the “big social classroom,” take root in the vast land of China, face the fiery social practice, adhere to running ideological and political courses openly, continuously explore practical course innovations, create a batch of high-quality research routes and situational ideological and political courses that experience the fruits of practice, guide students to think and analyze the actual situation of economic and social development, understand basic principles in real scenarios, and enable students to deepen theoretical cognition, cultivate sentiments and feelings, and strengthen faith and conviction in practice.

拓宽课堂场域，加强实践锻炼。把“思政小课堂”与“社会大课堂”有机结合，扎根广袤的中国大地，面向火热的社会实践，坚持开门办思政课，不断探索实践课程创新，打造一批感受实践成果的精品研学路线和情景式思政课，引导学生对经济社会发展的实际情况进行思考和分析，在现实情景中理解基本道理，让学生在实践中深化理论认知、陶冶情操情怀、增强信仰信念。

(Author: Zhou Jing, Associate Professor at the College of the Chinese Nation Community, North Minzu University)

（作者：周晶，系北方民族大学中华民族共同体学院副教授）

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