Chongqing Second Normal University is a multidisciplinary local general undergraduate normal college with a focus on literature. Founded in 1954, it has gone through three periods: Chongqing Secondary School Teachers' Spare-time Training School, Chongqing Teachers' Training College, and Chongqing Education College. In March 2012, approved by the Ministry of Education, it was transformed into Chongqing Second Normal College on the basis of Chongqing Education College.
In recent years, the school has always insisted on serving the economic and social development of Chongqing as its own responsibility, vigorously implementing the transformation and development strategy, doing fine and excellent teacher education, specializing and strengthening non-teacher education, and actively fostering the school-running characteristics of "serving the growth of children aged 0-12" , And strive to promote the integrated development of teacher training and non-teaching education, forming a development positioning for basic education and Chongqing's strategic emerging service industry. After unremitting efforts, the school cooperated with the Ministry of Education Planning and Construction Center to establish the country's first "Children Research Institute", which is the "13th Five-Year" Production and Education Integration Development Project Planning Project" and one hundred applied undergraduate colleges and universities, and the Ministry of Education "Yunshu The first batch of pilot colleges and universities of the “Integration of Science and Education Innovation” project, member units of the National University of Applied Technology Alliance, Chongqing’s first batch of pilot universities for transformation, the National Collaborative Innovation Experimental Base for Teacher Development, the National University Student Cultural Quality Education Base, Chongqing Teacher Education Innovation Experimental Zone, Chongqing Primary and Secondary School Teacher Development Center, Chongqing Civilized Unit, Chongqing's first batch of civilized campuses and advanced schools for the creation of national civilized campuses.
The school has two campuses, Xuefu Avenue and Nanshan, covering an area of 742,300 square meters, with a building area of 392,800 square meters, and a total value of 109 million yuan in teaching equipment. There are 9 experimental training centers under the jurisdiction of various experimental training rooms 94 As of the end of 2020, it has a total of 1,983,500 books and various digital resources that support the school’s teaching and research.
The school has always insisted on serving the locality and continuously optimizing the layout of disciplines and majors. The school is organized around Chongqing education, information, commerce, culture, health and other five key industry service areas. There are 37 undergraduate majors covering education, literature, science, engineering, management, economics, art and other disciplines. Focusing on the three major areas of education services, health services, and business services, we will build a special professional cluster "serving the growth of children aged 0-12", and vigorously promote the integration of teachers and non-teachers and the coordinated development of multiple disciplines. 1 first-level key discipline in Chongqing, 2 key cultivating disciplines in Chongqing, 3 national first-class undergraduate professional construction projects, 4 first-class professional construction projects in Chongqing, 1 Chongqing characteristic discipline professional group, Chongqing 6 special undergraduate majors.
The school always adheres to the quality of the school, and constantly improves the quality of talent training. The school firmly grasps the lifeline of talent training quality, and continuously deepens the reform of the training model of high-quality applied talents. Classroom collaboration "one center, two integration and two coordination" talent training model. It has successively built 1 national quality resource sharing course, 12 municipal quality video open courses, 8 municipal first-class undergraduate courses, and won 1 second prize of national teaching achievement in basic education; won Chongqing Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award 8 items, including 1 first prize. In the past five years, students have won 1,755 national and municipal awards, including 684 national awards. The employment rate of graduates has stabilized at around 90%, which is higher than the average undergraduate level in Chongqing.
The school has always insisted on strengthening the school with talents, and the construction of the teaching staff has achieved remarkable results. Since the reconstruction, the school has promoted both introduction and training, strengthened the construction of the faculty, and basically formed a faculty with excellent overall quality, a more reasonable structure, and a good development trend. There are 631 full-time teachers, among which 47.54% are teachers with senior professional titles; 87.96% are teachers with doctoral and master's degrees; and 23.77% are teachers with dual qualifications. There are 2 national outstanding teachers, 1 national model teacher, 1 national outstanding educator, 1 young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions in Chongqing, 3 model teachers and educators in Chongqing, 1 advanced worker in Chongqing, Chongqing 1 city "May 1st" labor medal winner, 1 Chongqing teaching teacher, 2 Chongqing excellent teachers, 1 Chongqing professional ethics construction model, 1 Chongqing outstanding female gardener, 2 Bayu scholar lecture professors , 2 Bayu scholars and young scholars, 1 Chongqing talent and innovation leader (in the field of education), 1 Huang Danian teacher team in Chongqing colleges and universities, 1 innovation research group in Chongqing colleges and universities, 2 Chongqing talents and innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration teams .
The school has always insisted on scientific research to promote the school, and the ability to serve the society has been continuously improved. Relying on its own school-running resource endowment and social development needs, with the construction of pedagogical specialty disciplines as the starting point, integrating talent training, scientific research, and social services, focusing on "serving the growth of children aged 0-12", and enhancing the school's social contribution And influence. Obtained the approval of the Ministry of Education to build the "National Teacher Development Collaborative Innovation Experimental Base", and cooperated with the School Planning and Construction Development Center of the Ministry of Education to build the country's first interdisciplinary and cross-field comprehensive scientific research platform for children's growth, the Children's Research Institute, and the establishment of Chongqing Humanities The key social science research base "Chongqing City Coordinating Urban and Rural Teacher Education Research Center" and Chongqing Teacher Education Innovation Experimental Zone, building functional food collaborative innovation center, children's big data Chongqing Engineering Laboratory and Qizhi Zhongchuang Space, etc. Research and development platforms such as the Municipal Government, the Municipal Education Commission, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, and the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau. In the past five years, school teachers have presided over 11 national self-science, social science fund, national education science planning projects, 475 provincial (ministerial) level scientific research projects; publicly published 104 monographs, edits, and translations, and published 1924 academic papers. ; Won 2 Chongqing Science and Technology Progress Awards and 2 Chongqing Social Science Outstanding Achievement Awards. There are 7 scientific and technological innovation teams in Chongqing.
The school has always insisted on opening up schools, and the situation of cooperative education has been deepened. With the promotion of the integration of production and education as the traction, we will cooperate in educating people through the joint education of talents, the joint construction of platforms, the sharing of tasks, and the sharing of results. It has successively established ZTE Institute of Communication and Shuguang University of Big Data, and has carried out school-enterprise cooperation projects with companies such as Phoenix Media, ZTE Corporation and Dongfang Yuxin. It has carried out exchanges and cooperation with more than 80 colleges and universities and educational institutions abroad, established an international college, and introduced educational resources from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain to carry out cooperation in running schools. Jointly conduct personnel training, scientific research, and production services with 313 local governments, industry organizations and enterprises.
Over the past 67 years, the school has formed the school motto spirit of "Perseverance to the best" and the school spirit of "Being self-improvement, innovation and truth-seeking", and cultivated the excellent teaching style of "Being upright, virtuous, knowledgeable and educated", "Diligent learning, thinking, discerning and acting". Style of study. Facing the new era, the school will follow the central "five in one" overall layout and the "four comprehensive" strategic layout requirements, fully implement the fundamental task of Lide and foster people, and closely focus on the "two-point" positioning and positioning proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping in Chongqing. The "two places" and the "two highs" goals, the "three roles" and the important directive requirements of creating a good political ecology, comprehensively deepen comprehensive reforms, accelerate the modernization of the school governance system and governance capabilities, and intensify the construction of high-level undergraduate education. Actively integrate into the construction of the dual-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, and strive to build the school into a high-level applied general undergraduate normal college with status in Chongqing, influential in the western region, and unique across the country.