In February 1919-11, the Jiangsu Education Bureau appointed Gu Miao (Shuzhi) as supervisor, responsible for the preparation of the third government normal school. School started on September 17th, but was suspended shortly after the Wuchang Uprising broke out. School reopened in April 1912 and was renamed the Provincial No. 3 Normal School (No. 3 Normal School for short), with Gu Gao as principal (he resigned in 1921 and was succeeded by Chen Lun, director of academic affairs). Mr. Gu regarded Japanese education as the Model, rigorous school management, with "Hongyi" as its motto. The school is divided into preparatory courses (one year) and undergraduate courses (four years), and an affiliated primary school was established on September 4, 1913. A rural branch was established. The first class of the Third Normal University had 23 undergraduate graduates. By 1927, the 13th class had graduated, with a total of more than 500 teachers. He was diligent in learning and was awarded by the Ministry of Education at that time.
During the May 4th Movement, the teachers and students of the Third Division were so angry that they took to the streets to protest against the traitorous crimes of the Beiyang warlord government and launched the Wuxi Patriotic Student Movement. In June 1919, the Wuxi Student Union was established, and students from the Third Normal University were appointed as president and vice president. After the May 30th massacre, students from the Third Normal University joined forces with other schools in Taiwan to support the workers in Shanghai. During the struggle, student Wu Hengtong became the first chairman of the "Wuxi Support Association". In 1925, Communist Yun Daiying came to the school to give a speech and sowed the seeds of revolution. Many activists embarked on the road of revolution. For example, Huang Xiangbin and Guan Wenwei joined the Communist Party one after another. After 1926, there were already revolutionary underground organizations among the students, and the Third Division was quite famous in the province and even the country. In June 2007, the third normal school was renamed Jiangsu Provincial Wuxi Middle School (Xizhong). The early normal school was changed to a junior high school, the later normal school was changed to a high school normal course, and a high school general course was added in October 1932. Jiangsu Provincial Wuxi Normal School (referred to as Provincial Wuxi Normal School). During the ten years, five principals were replaced, and the school was successively replaced by Wang Keren, Zhou Fengdian, Chen Lun, Shen Peixian, and Zhou Penzai. Students set up various research groups and invited teachers to guide each other. Many famous scholars came to the school to give lectures, including: Ma Xiangbo, Li Gongpu, Hui Daiying, Tao Xingzhi, Zhang Taiyan, Shen Junru, etc. Huang Yanpei, Meng Xiancheng, Chen Heqin, Russell (UK), Dewey (USA), etc.
After the "September 18th" incident in 1931, Xizhong students organized a propaganda and lecture group of more than 200 people. They went to four villages to "awaken the villagers and fight for the national calamity", which led to a general strike across the province at the end of the year. In 1935, in the face of the Japanese imperialists' plot to play with "North China's autonomy", the entire school staff issued a declaration, which was telegraphed across the country. Determined to "die for the country, regardless of all sacrifices." During the "December 9th" movement, all students in the school ignored the "dissuasion" of the inspector, opened the iron gate, broke through the obstruction of the military and police, and plunged into the torrent of the anti-Japanese and national salvation movement. In 1933, the Xizhong underground branch of the Communist Youth League was established. In 1933, under the initiative of the underground league organization, 11 middle schools in seven places in the province launched an "anti-college examination" struggle and achieved victory.
On November 11, 1937, Xicheng Division was bombed by Japanese planes and was forced to suspend classes. On the 25th, Xicheng fell. Zhou Yuxin, the former principal, went to Shanghai and was extremely short of housing. Under difficult circumstances and after many twists and turns, it was agreed to jointly recruit students with the private Changzhou Middle School. School starts on September 1st. Later, in February 1939, in order to take care of students in northern Jiangsu who had difficulty traveling back and forth, a branch of Xi Normal University was opened in the "Xuegong" in Taixing County. After the Japanese army occupied the concession, the Wang puppet government took over the school, and teachers and students immediately protested and boycotted it. In order to protect students, Principal Zhou changed its name to "Private Civilized Middle School" in 1942. In this way, the teachers and students of Shanghai School united and persisted in running the school until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
In October 1945, the Kuomintang Jiangsu Provincial Government sent Gu Gun as the principal to prepare for the reopening of the school. After being destroyed by the Japanese army, Xishi Division was in dilapidated state and desolate. With strong support from alumni, it was basically restored in the second half of 1947, and students returned to the main campus one after another. The old teachers from the Xizhong period of the Third Normal University were hired to teach, and the students studied diligently and studied hard. The excellent school spirit since the Third Normal University has been inherited and carried forward.
At that time, the persecution and the struggle against the persecution were quite intense. Fu Zhisu, a military training instructor and spy leader of the Kuomintang, implemented a fascist military management system in the school and engaged in espionage activities. In the winter of 1948, the Kuomintang military police arrived at the school to arrest patriotic students. Principal Shi Renfu went to the county police station to rescue him, but was detained. After protests from teachers and students across the school, the county magistrate ordered the release of Shi Renfu and the arrested students. On the eve of liberation, the underground organization of the New Democratic Youth League, headed by Gao Yixiao and Xu Jiliang, used reading clubs and other forms of struggle to unite progressive students, protect the school, and welcome the liberation of Wuxi.
In the thirty-eight years of old China, Xi Normal University trained more than 2,600 graduates. Most of them are working hard for education. Some were rated as special teachers after liberation. Some continued their studies and became famous scientists, artists and scholars. Some participated in the revolution and became outstanding teachers under the training of the party. cadre. Martyrs such as Zhou Shuihui, Qian Qiuyang, Wang Jianshan, Li Gu, Huang Xiangbin, Wu Hengtong, and Yang Hua dedicated their lives to the motherland and the people. They wrote a glorious chapter in the history of their alma mater.
In April 1949, Wuxi was liberated and the Xi Division entered a new historical period. In May, the Ministry of Culture and Education of the Southern Jiangsu Military Control Commission sent Comrades Tao Bai and Liu Dinghan to take over the school. First, the fascist management system of the Kuomintang was abolished and the school board was established through democratic elections, with former principal Shi Renfu as chairman.
On January 18, 1950, the Wuxi Normal University Party Branch of the Communist Party of China was formally established, with Zhou Zhizhi as the first secretary. In the same year, the regiment branch mobilized nearly a hundred militiamen and was renamed the regiment general branch.
After liberation, the teachers and students of Xi Normal University carried forward the patriotic tradition and participated in various political movements with extremely high enthusiasm, such as participating in the production self-rescue movement, actively supporting the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and participating in the Southwest Service Corps and the Land Reform Task Force. In the "Three Antis", "Five Antis" and ideological reform movements carried out from 1951 to 1952, Xishi Normal University was a pilot unit for schools in southern Jiangsu.
After a three-year recovery period, from 1952 to 1956, the school has developed significantly. In October 1952, Comrade You Ying came to the school as the principal. At the same time, key teachers were transferred from middle schools in southern Jiangsu to enrich the teaching staff of Xi Normal University. The Political Counseling Office was established and the Youth League branch was changed to the Youth League Committee: student classes were increased from the original two parallel classes to six parallel classes, with a maximum of eight parallel classes. In addition, there are quick master classes and simplified master classes. A new library and teaching building were built, as well as an east-west dining room that can accommodate more than a thousand people at the same time. A large number of teaching instruments and books and materials were purchased. Since 1953, the school has resolutely implemented the instruction that "teaching is the central work of the school", implemented the policy of comprehensive development of morality, intelligence and physical fitness, and improved the quality of teaching. The four classes that graduated in 1954 ranked first among the normal colleges in southern Jiangsu in terms of the number of students who applied for admission to higher normal colleges and their results. Everyone in the graduating class happily obeyed the assignments and contributed to the development of local education.
In December 1956, the Party branch of Wuxi Normal University was changed to the general party branch. Xue Hongchang came to the school as secretary of the general party branch and vice president. In February 1958, he was transferred to Wuxi Normal University. After graduating from college, he returned to Xi'an Normal University as secretary of the Party branch in 1965. During this period, Zhou Peiran, Xi Fan and Tao Qun successively served as Party branch secretaries. In July 1957, Liu Boqian succeeded You Ying as the principal for only half a year. Later, Sun Jingchu served as the principal until his death in December 1962. In 1957, the school began to implement the policy of "integrating education with productive labor, carry out work-study programs, shrink teaching staff, reduce teaching hours, and shorten the academic system by two years. In 1960, in the face of three years of natural disasters, the school implemented the eight-character policy and The leaders led teachers and students to work hard, and the quality of education improved after adjustments.
The ten years of the Cultural Revolution were disastrous, and the Normal Education Department stopped enrolling students for three years. "Class", a two-year normal class and four new normal classes for "worker, peasant and soldier trainees", trained more than a thousand teachers, and contributed to alleviating the serious shortage of teachers in primary and secondary schools in Wuxi at that time.
After the "Gang of Four" was crushed, the school quickly returned to normal order. In June 1978, Xue Hongchang resumed his duties as Party branch secretary and principal. During this period, a company system was established, the teaching and research team was restored, teachers in the Normal Department and the Middle School were adjusted, and the focus of work was shifted to the Normal Department. A new five-story teaching building was built, electronic equipment was added, and library materials were enriched. All aspects of the school were restored and developed.
The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in 1978, and the country entered a new era of reform and opening up. On the basis of correcting chaos, Xishi continued to deepen reforms and took a new step in 1979. The junior college class and the middle school department recruited and trained junior high school teachers, and the work goal of "cultivating qualified primary school teachers" was established. In the same year, Xi Normal University was once again designated as a key normal school in Jiangsu Province and the middle school department was abolished in the summer of 1981. In 1983, Comrade Lu Maoxue came to the school as secretary of the Party branch. In 1984, Xishi Normal University was identified as a pilot unit for the province's secondary normal education reform. In accordance with the spirit of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's "three orientations", the school formulated a plan based on a comprehensive investigation. An education reform implementation plan was introduced, a group of key teachers were introduced, and it was clearly stated that through the reform, "Wuxi Normal University will be built into a national first-class normal school with high-level teaching staff, efficient management, and high-quality graduates."
In September 1985, Comrade Xue Hongchang, who had been in charge of Xi Normal University for nearly 30 years, retired, and Comrade Fan Jinxian took over as the principal. In 1986, Comrade Gao Guoqiang was appointed as the deputy secretary of the school party branch and took charge of party affairs. Since 1988, the school has carried out supporting reforms in the internal management system, including the "principal responsibility system, full faculty appointment system, assessment reward and punishment system, and total salary contract system", which has mobilized the enthusiasm of the majority of faculty and staff. In April 1989, Comrade Wei Zucheng came to the school as secretary of the general party branch. In June 1991, Comrade Wang Youjun was appointed as deputy secretary of the general party branch and took charge of party affairs. In 1994, the school was rated as the comprehensive reform of Wuxi City. Advanced unit.
During this period, the school always insisted on putting moral education first, and established a political and educational office to carry out patriotism education and student behavioral habits education through various forms, and carry out the creation of excellent classes. Through collective activities, ideological education work has achieved remarkable results. In June 1989, representatives of the National Conference on Ideological and Political Work of Secondary Schools came to the school for inspection. Since 1990, students from the National Training Course for Secondary School Principals have visited the school many times. During the inspection, the tin masters were all given a high evaluation. In January 1991, the school was rated as a model school for implementing students' daily behavioral norms by the Municipal Education Commission. In May 1991, it was rated as an advanced unit for socialist ideological education in Wuxi City, and has continued to maintain the honorable title of city civilized unit.
Since 1984, the school has comprehensively carried out classroom teaching reform, strengthened the teaching of basic knowledge and basic skills training, and effectively trained and assessed basic skills such as "three words and one word" to improve students' teaching ability. . In 1986, it was rated as an advanced collective in national popularization work.
Since September 1989, the school has been on trial basis. The new teaching plan for the three-year secondary normal school issued by the Parent Education Committee is based on classroom teaching and organically combines four major parts: compulsory courses, elective courses, extracurricular activity courses, and social practice courses. In the spring of 1985, the Provincial Department of Education designated Wuxi Normal University as the first batch of pilot units for cultivating junior college primary school teachers in the province. In September of the same year, 40 outstanding students were selected from the province's secondary school graduates to enter the "Third and Second Stage" Study in junior college classes. In 1986, a series of national seminars on primary education and college education came to the school for discussion. The school summarized the article "Exploration for the Future" and published it, which won unanimous praise from the National Education Commission, the Provincial Education Commission and the Brothers Normal School. At the end of 1986, Wuxi Preschool Education and Training Center was established. In June 1988, he was commended by the State Education Commission for “clear direction and remarkable achievements in cultivating qualified teachers for basic education”. The school strengthens external exchanges, and educational groups from the United States, Canada, Germany, Thailand, Japan and other countries have visited the school for inspections. In 1993, the Provincial Education Commission approved the school to enroll five-year college classes. In order to meet the needs of teaching reform, the school adopts various forms to improve the professional level of teachers, implements the "Blue Project" that pairs middle-aged and elderly teachers with young teachers, and holds paper evaluation and academic exchange activities every year. A team of teachers with reasonable structure and high professional quality has been initially formed. The school demolished the old school building and built a music building, student dormitory, dining hall, auditorium, laboratory building, gymnasium, and office building. It renovated the teaching building and the south building, and built new buildings such as "Drips of Water Wear Through Stone", "Respecting Teacher Pavilion", "Sailing Sail", etc. Cultural landscape and expanded green area. Educational facilities and equipment have been significantly improved, and the school was rated as "Wuxi City Landscape Unit".
In September 1994, Comrade Fan Jinxian, who had been in charge of Xishi Normal University for nearly ten years, resigned, and Comrade Li Fuxing took over as the principal. In the same year, Comrade Lin Jiankun came to the school as Party Branch Secretary and Vice President. In June 1995, the school formulated and approved the "Ninth Five-Year Plan for the Development of Wuxi Normal University and the Long-term Goals for 2010". The school actively promotes the "standardization of the conditions for running a secondary normal school, launches the modernization of normal education, and gradually realizes the tertiary education of secondary normal schools" and has achieved remarkable results. From 1996 to 1997, the school built a new science and technology building and a kindergarten teacher training center building, renovated and built original buildings such as libraries, gymnasiums, and teaching buildings, and equipped modern educational facilities such as studios in the science and technology building. . At the end of 1997, the school successfully passed the standardization acceptance of the provincial secondary school running conditions with excellent results, and became a model school for the Wuxi Education Modernization Project.
In 1996, the school stopped recruiting secondary school teachers. In 1997, it enrolled all the "five-year consistent system" and "three-two-stage" junior college classes. In 1999, it took the lead in the province Achieve tertiary education. The regulations for running the school are the best in history. The professional setting is based on the new development of basic education. Professional classes such as comprehensive liberal arts, comprehensive science, music, information technology, natural audio-visual education, and English have been formed, forming certain school running characteristics. Students graduating from junior college classes have gone to all parts of the province and become the backbone of teaching. There are many He became a famous teacher in Jiangsu Province and a provincial special teacher. Newspapers such as "China Education News" have made special reports on the school's experience in running junior colleges, which has had a wide impact inside and outside the province, and the school's achievements have been fully recognized by all sectors of society.
While promoting college education, the school has accelerated the construction of a team of famous and outstanding teachers. By the end of 2000, the school had 1 national-level expert, 3 provincial special-level teachers, 3 provincial “333” cross-century academic and technical leaders training candidates, 1 Wuxi city famous teacher, and 7 provincial and municipal subject leaders. name. Two teachers have won the National Zeng Xianzi Education Fund Award, and one has won the Provincial Sequoia Cup Silver Award. Seven graduate students have been introduced, forty teachers have participated in postgraduate courses, and four visiting scholars from the province have been sent. The overall structure and level of the teaching staff have been significantly improved.
In 1997, Comrade Lin Jiankun was transferred to the leadership of the Wuxi Municipal Education Commission, and Comrade Lu Minfu came to the school as deputy secretary of the Party Branch to preside over party affairs until August 2001 when he left office. In accordance with the spirit of the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the school updates its educational concepts, enhances its awareness of innovation, and comprehensively implements quality education. The school further strengthens moral education, deepens education and teaching reform, emphasizes multimedia-assisted teaching as a breakthrough, and implements the province’s “One, Three, Five” teaching modernization project. While strengthening professional skills training, we strive to improve students' basic scientific and cultural qualities. Extensively carry out the "Gardener Science and Technology Education Action" to comprehensively popularize modern scientific and technological knowledge, master modern educational skills, and strengthen the cultivation of computer and foreign language application capabilities and scientific research capabilities. The school attaches great importance to education and scientific research. Five topics have been included in national and provincial key projects. The mid-term research results of the school's municipal project "Research on the Theory and Practice of Five-year Consistent Quality Education for Teachers" won the honor of Jiangsu Normal University. Cup first prize for scientific research. The school has been ranked as the national advanced unit in language and writing work, won the advanced unit in moral education in Jiangsu Province, and was rated as a civilized unit in Jiangsu Province twice in a row.
In February 2000, Comrade Li Fuxing resigned, and Comrade Chen Zhigai took over as the principal and secretary of the party branch. In August 2002, Xi Normal School and Luo Normal School merged to form the new Wuxi Normal School of Jiangsu Province, with Comrade Chen Zhigui as the principal and Comrade Zou Yaoliang as the Party Secretary. In May 2005, the school became the Wuxi Branch of Jiangsu Institute of Education and was renamed Wuxi Higher Normal School, achieving leap-forward development. Xishi people adhere to the school motto of "Hongyi" and have formed a campus with the school spirit of "seeking truth sincerely, erudition and self-improvement", the teaching style of "respecting teachers and setting an example, being inclusive and accessible", and the study style of "clear ambition, advancing morality, inspiring learning and practicing diligently" Humanistic spirit.
In the new century, the school faces the challenges and opportunities of the reform and development of my country’s normal education, vigorously implements the strategy of “reviving the school through scientific research”, carries out the “Hongyi Cup” series of education, teaching and research activities, and establishes Wuxi The Municipal Xishi Training Center and Network Management Center restored the school magazine "Xinshi Education" (later renamed "Journal of Wuxi Higher Normal School"), and actively and steadily explored the reform of the personnel system and the realization of logistics socialization. Mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties and boldly explore new methods and new ways to improve the level of running schools.
Xi Normal University is now a five-year junior college. In January 2006, the school abolished the teaching and research group and established five departments: humanities, mathematics and science, foreign languages, modern educational technology, and arts and sports. Chinese education, mathematics education, information technology education, English education, art education and other majors are in a leading position among similar schools in the province. Since 2006, Xishi Normal University has developed into the only base for training bilingual teachers in Wuxi. Since 2003, the school has been cultivating five-year college students in non-teaching majors (higher vocational colleges). The scale has continued to expand, the quality has steadily improved, and it has been welcomed by the society.
The school has a strong teaching staff, including 1 expert enjoying national subsidy, 1 provincial famous teacher, 6 provincial special teachers, 2 provincial “333” project training subjects, 11 municipal subject leaders, There are 2 city academic and technical leaders, 10 city teaching experts, 7 city teaching rookies, 29 associate professors, 45 senior lecturers, 9 graduate students with master's degrees, 31 graduate students, and 35 graduates. The teachers have noble ethics, professional skills, rigorous teaching and standardized management.
In October 2006, Wuxi Higher Normal School merged with Wuxi Industrial School to effectively integrate vocational education resources. This was a new development in the history of the school after the successful merger of Xi Normal University and Luoyang Normal University in 2002. milestone. Comrade Chen Zhigai serves as the principal, and Comrade Zou Yaoliang serves as the party secretary. In June 2007, the school established a joint venture with the China Enterprise Management Wuxi Training Center. Since then, the school has reached its largest scale in history. In May 2009, Comrade Zou Yaoliang resigned and Comrade Wang Yuandong took over as Party Secretary. In April 2010, Principal Chen Zhigui resigned and Comrade Zhu Linlin took over.
Master Xi has gone through a hundred glorious years. But the glory belongs to the past. "Now we are taking steps forward from the beginning." The people of Wuxi Higher Normal University are comprehensively promoting the higher education of school management, diversification of school running forms, integration of pre-service and post-service, and modernization of school running conditions, striving to transform Wuxi Normal University It will be established as a higher education institution with distinctive features of teacher education and financial services, which is compatible with general high school and high school, normal school and non-teacher school, pre-service and post-service, and serves the basic education and local economy of Wuxi and the region.