Small-class Seminar: The Core Element of Undergraduate Elite Education- Taking Yao Class of Tsinghua University as an Example
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.220404.062How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Tsinghua Yao class; small class seminar; elite education
- Abstract
The small-class seminar is a kind of teaching organization widely used in world-class universities and a key measure to improve the quality of talent cultivation. This paper mainly takes The “Yao Class” of Tsinghua University as the entry point, uses the way of table comparison and examples to study the advantages and disadvantages of the small class seminar for an undergraduate elite education and the reform plan. The advantage of small-class seminars is that teachers have more time to focus on each student, expand and deepen the content of the course, teach students according to their aptitude, enhance class cohesion, and increase communication opportunities among students and their interest in learning. The high student-to-teacher ratio, traditional teaching methods and lack of teaching investment are the restrictive factors of elite education in China. Reforming small-class education requires rational planning of classroom utilization rate, strengthening of classroom infrastructure construction and increasing investment. Meanwhile, teachers should take students as the center, innovate teaching methods and cultivate students’ critical thinking.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Shuangyue Ma PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/18 TI - Small-class Seminar: The Core Element of Undergraduate Elite Education- Taking Yao Class of Tsinghua University as an Example BT - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Creative Industry and Knowledge Economy (CIKE 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 331 EP - 335 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220404.062 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220404.062 ID - Ma2022 ER -