Yuncheng Preschool Education College is the first batch of national upgrading college and the only preschool education college in Shanxi province. It is situated in Yuncheng city, the south of Shanxi province. Yuncheng is known as “Hedong”, which connects Beijing and Tianjin in the north, Hubei and Guangdong in the south, Henan and Shandong in the east, and Qinba area in the west. It has the reputation as “The Golden Triangle of the Yellow River” of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan province.
The college covers an area of 540 mu, with a construction area of 180.146 thousand square meters. The total value of teaching equipment is 30.3944 million Yuan, and the library has a collection of 604.9 thousand books. It has a faculty and staff of 481 people, including 50 professors and associate professors, 70 teachers with graduate degree, and 33 provincial model teachers, provincial subject leaders, provincial teaching experts. There are 2 affiliated kindergartens, 210 off-campus educational practice bases, and 7 national and provincial training bases. Currently, the total enrollment is 6855 students. The college consists of 5 departments, including Department of Preschool Education, Department of Language and Literature, Department of Art, Department of Fine Arts, and Department of Basic Teaching. It offers 12 majors, including preschool education, Chinese education, English education, music education, dancing education, fine arts education, physical education, early education, tourism English, dancing performance, art design, and hosting and broadcasting.
So far, Yuncheng Preschool Education College has trained more than 30000 talents of preschool education, with 98.7% of employment rate. With the motto of “People-Orientation, Morality First”, the college carries out construction projects of “1331” (first-class major, first-class curriculum, first-class faculty, first-class facility, first-class service, and first-class quality). In 2017, its connotative construction has achieved remarkable results, winning 7 national honors, 33 provincial honors and 28 city-level honors. In first Competition of Classroom Teaching of Excellent Teachers jointly held by Yuncheng Bureau of Education, Yuncheng Federation of Trade Unions and Yuncheng Labor Competition Committee, 5 teachers recommended by our college have all won the prizes, including 1 special prize, 2 first prizes, 2 second prizes, ranking first in four higher vocational colleges. Among them, 3 teachers have been awarded the titles of “Top Teachers of Yuncheng”. Through years’ exploration and development, with clear patterns of talents cultivation, exact orientation, scientific methods, and strong measures, the college has carried out the educational concept of “cooperation between college and enterprise” and “practice-orientation”, optimizing the structure of majors and improving the quality of curriculum and talents cultivation. The school has realized full coverage of campus network and installed intelligent water-saving facilities, shared hair dryers and monitoring equipment, equipped with modern teaching facilities and equipment and practical training projects. The quality of life and learning of students has been improved. With pleasant natural scenery and humanistic environment, and salary and welfare benefits of faculty and staff greatly improved, “four-in-one” prevention and control system of people’ air defense, technical defense, facilities defense, and institutional defense further improved, comprehensive strength of the college have been significantly enhanced and the construction of harmonious humanistic campus has enjoyed some success.
In recent years, the college has won second prize of group in professional skills competition of preschool education of higher vocational group in National Vocational College Skills Competition, first prize of group in teaching skills competition of preschool education in Shanxi 11th Higher Vocational Colleges Competition, first prize of professional group of folk dance in Shanxi 6th “Daisy Award” College Students Art Contest, first prize of college group of Chinese dance in Shanxi Students Sports Dance League, Excellent Organizational Award in The First Excellent Art Works Exhibition of College Graduation Season, second of Women's Team in the total score in Shanxi 20th College Athletics Games, Special Award in "entering new era, building grand Yuncheng, developing the city by education" singing contest held by Yuncheng Education Commission, Excellent Organizational Award in Gold Medal Tour Guide Competition, Excellent Organizational Award in Yuncheng 20th Promoting Putonghua Activities as well as Recitation Contest of Educational System, Excellent Organizational Award in 5th “Xiaqing Trophy” Recitation Contest of the Central People’s broadcasting Station, Excellent Organizational Award in Yuncheng Teachers’ s Day Conference as well as Vocal Competition of college staff, and Excellent Organizational Award in The 5th “Sanba” Reading and Soliciting Articles Activity, etc.
The college has been awarded the titles of “May 4th Red Banner League Committee”, “Excellent Organizational Unit in Shanxi Competition Area of National Youth Drug Control Knowledge Competition”, “Shanxi Advanced Unit for Food Service of Colleges and Universities”, “Yuncheng May 1st Labor Certificate”, “Yuncheng Collective First-Class Merit”, “Yuncheng Advanced Grassroots Party Organization”, “Yuncheng Top Ten Colleges for Vocational Education”, “Yuncheng 1st Top Ten Colleges for Art Education”, “Yuncheng Model Unit for Cultural Construction”, and “Yuncheng Garden Unit” etc.
