YNU helps Jinghong city build physical education studios

The inauguration ceremony for new Physical and Aesthetic Education Master Teacher Studios – located in Jinghong, Southwest China's Yunnan province – was held in the city on June 3.

The facilities were built by Jinghong and a team from Yunnan University, or YNU – based in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province – which went to Jinghong to help with the construction.

At the inauguration ceremony, Wu Jian, vice president of Yunnan University, and Wei Wei, director of the Jinghong bureau of education and sports, presented plaques to the first seven studios.

At the inauguration ceremony, seven studios are unveiled. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

During the event, selected master teacher candidates from seven schools in Jinghong – including Xiaojie Central Primary School in Menglong town, Jinghong – engaged in discussions.

These were on advancing the development of master teacher studios, integrating physical and aesthetic education with moral and intellectual education and other topics.

The teacher candidates also exchanged their experiences with team leaders from Yunnan University, further clarifying and detailing the goals and tasks for building the master teacher studios.

As one of the first universities in Yunnan province to assist schools in various regions with physical and aesthetic education, YNU is providing targeted support to Jinghong city in the province's south Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture.

The university is guiding the establishment of master teacher studios in physical education, music and art in Jinghong.

The plan is for the studios to adopt a model where a local backbone teacher drives several other teachers – aiming to develop a professional team of physical and aesthetic education instructors for primary and secondary schools in Jinghong.