Schools adhere to the "service economy, market-oriented;" Serving students, taking ability as the standard; Serving the society, aiming at meeting different educational needs ",the main task of running a school is to cultivate high-quality skilled talents, constantly broaden the ideas of running a school, deepen the reform of education and teaching, strengthen internal management, strive for first-class quality, develop with characteristics, and comprehensively improve the level of running a school. At present, the school has formed a long-term compatibility, the combination of secondary and higher vocational education, academic education and social training simultaneously.
The school insists on teaching-centered, connotative development and "133" education quality monitoring project ("133") means that students must obtain three basic survival skills certificates such as "foreign language/mandarin", "computer" and "housekeeping" before graduation, and three professional qualification certificates related to their major before they can obtain/kloc-. Under the guidance of the school's "Expert Advisory Committee", with the overall goal of "modularization of courses, project-based skills, hierarchical training and socialization of assessment", more than 20 school-based textbooks for cultural courses such as mathematics and foreign languages and professional courses such as operation and maintenance technology of CNC machine tools and foundation of modern control technology have been actively developed and put into use. Open elective courses in an all-round way, strengthen the teaching of foreign languages such as English and Korean, and strive to improve students' comprehensive vocational ability. Actively explore classroom teaching reform with vocational education characteristics, create a "rolling" vocational skills training model, implement teaching management reform and system innovation with credit system and flexible academic system as the main contents, and strive to build a variety of ways to promote students' success. The qualified rate of intermediate workers in various professions and technologies is over 90%, and many students have won prizes in professional skill competitions for students in national and provincial vocational schools. In 2005, the school won 14 first prizes in 7 competitions, ranking first in the city. The teaching reform classes in vocational secondary schools adhere to the dual track of "further education" and "employment", and their corresponding college entrance examination scores have been among the best in the city. More than 65,438+0,000 students were admitted to Southeast University, Suzhou University and other institutions of higher learning. In 2009, undergraduate colleges in Jiangsu Province enrolled 129 students. Over the years, the school has not only delivered tens of thousands of middle and senior professional and technical talents for local economic construction, but also trained dozens of factory directors and managers who have become talents by their own efforts.
The school strengthens professional modernization, promotes the modernization of school construction with professional modernization, constantly optimizes and pays attention to the professional structure according to market changes, builds professional brands, focuses on cultivating four majors, including processing and manufacturing, electronic information, hotel service and tourism management, and trade finance, and builds three provincial-level demonstration majors, including electromechanical, computer and electronics. In March, 2004, it was identified by the Ministry of Education and other six ministries as the national training base for talents with skills shortage in numerical control technology. The school attaches great importance to the construction of training base, and has invested more than 20 million yuan to build professional laboratories and practice factories in electromechanical, numerical control, electrical and electronic, computer and other fields. It has laid a solid material foundation for improving students' practical ability. The school adheres to the road of combining Industry-University-Research, constantly enriches and expands the connotation of professional construction, and encourages professional teachers to carry out scientific research and innovation, technological development and new product research. Teachers majoring in CNC successfully completed the research and development of refitting CNC lathes from ordinary lathes, and successfully refitted CNC lathes from Guangdu system. Electromechanical teachers participated in the technological innovation of Guang Chen CNC Lathe Technology Co., Ltd. of Zhejiang University and won the first prize of scientific research reform.
High-quality teachers are the fundamental guarantee for schools to improve the quality of running schools and realize sustainable development. In recent years, the school has made great efforts to train professional leaders and "double-qualified" teachers, vigorously implemented the project of teachers' morality, teachers' ability and famous teachers, and comprehensively improved the level of professional teachers through "internal training" and "external introduction". Encourage in-service teachers to study for master's degree and master's degree in education, support professional teachers to obtain certificates of senior engineers and technicians, send outstanding teachers to study abroad, take the lead in selecting "chief teachers" in schools directly under the municipal government, set up "famous teacher studios", and strive to improve the working and living conditions of key teachers. The school also introduced more than 40 senior professional and technical personnel from enterprises as practice instructors, and built a high-quality teaching team with full-time combination and reasonable structure. Computer professional teachers won the gold medal in Yancheng Computer Skills Competition and went to the province to participate in the competition, and won the title of "Jiangsu Electronic Information Industry Technical Expert"; In 2005, the school won the first place in the three subject groups of Chinese, Mathematics and English in the provincial vocational school teachers' excellent course competition.
The school attaches great importance to promoting enrollment and employment placement of graduates through smooth employment output. Signed contracts with more than 30 large and medium-sized enterprises, such as AUO Optoelectronic (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Jincheng Group and Kia Group of Da Yue, implemented "order" education, introduced modern corporate culture and "5S" management concept into campus, established experimental practice bases with large enterprises, and established classes named after enterprises. Improve the implementation of the graduate tracking service system, regularly go deep into the enterprise to understand the working and living conditions, and constantly adjust the teaching requirements according to the actual employment and student development of the enterprise to ensure the seamless connection between the school and the enterprise. Over the years, the employment placement rate of graduates has reached 98%, and the counterpart employment placement rate has reached over 85%. In order to further enlarge the quality education resources, the school has continuously expanded its service functions and actively carried out social training, re-employment training for laid-off workers and rural labor transfer training. Establish long-term cooperative relations with enterprise groups in economically developed areas such as southern Jiangsu, take the initiative to marry local pillar industries, implement "order-based" training, and realize the organic connection between vocational training and employment. More than 30 training courses on numerical control, computer and electronics are held every year, and more than 500 people are trained and employed/kloc-0.
The school adheres to the rule of law and implements scientific and democratic management. Since 1984, the "three-system" reform with the principal election responsibility system, faculty appointment system and post responsibility system as the main contents has been implemented, and three principals of No.8 Middle School have been elected for more than 20 years. The teaching staff democratically elected the principal, and the principal openly hired the vice principal, middle-level cadres and teaching staff, which realized the transformation of school personnel from identity management to post management and from administrative management to contract management. The faculty members have a strong sense of participating in and discussing state affairs, a high enthusiasm for work, and a growing sense of professionalism and responsibility. The school's democratic management experience is often reported by the media and commended by the higher-level government and education authorities. In order to fully implement the central, provincial and municipal spirit of deepening the reform of personnel system in primary and secondary schools, further promote the reform of education personnel system and promote the sustainable development of education in our city, at the end of June 2004, the Party Committee of the Municipal Education Bureau took the lead in implementing the pilot reform of "democratic public promotion and differential direct election" for principals in the whole school and achieved success.
In recent years, the school has been commended by the superior government and the competent authorities as provincial and municipal civilized units, provincial and municipal demonstration schools, national advanced units of vocational and technical education, national advanced units of ideological and moral construction in primary and secondary schools, provincial advanced collective of party building in primary and secondary schools, provincial advanced collective of teaching and scientific research, provincial advanced school of moral education, provincial advanced unit of publicity of school affairs, and municipal advanced collective of legal education for young people. The municipal party committee, the municipal government and the national, provincial and municipal education authorities pay close attention to the development of this school. Wang Bintai, Director of the Provincial Education Department, Zhang Jiuhan, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Municipal People's Congress, and Liu Zhanshan, Vice Minister of Education, visited the school on the spot and fully affirmed its achievements. In order to further strengthen and expand the school, the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government and the Municipal Education Bureau decided to relocate the new school. The new campus covers an area of 500 mu, with a building area of 1.3 million square meters, a total investment of more than 200 million yuan and 7500 students. It is the first school in Yancheng to move into a vocational education park. The new campus was put into use in September 2006. The construction of the new campus fully embodies the concepts of humanities, science and technology and environmental education, integrates intelligence and informatization, and will become a diversified comprehensive higher vocational and technical school integrating education and training, scientific and technological research and product development.