I. Background and significance
Under the current circumstances, to achieve the general and technical education general level of positive and far-reaching significance.
(1) innovative secondary vocational education and training goals and school system, the development of secondary vocational education has made a positive exploration and practice. Secondary vocational education in addition to achieve the goal of their own culture in the process of the new curriculum for high school general and technical education to provide support and services, and strive to improve the technical literacy of high school students, focus on the development of students’ creative potential and students practical ability training, to cultivate all-round development of high school students for the future in various fields, various levels of innovative personnel training has played an essential role. Breaking the boundaries and scope of the original school school cooperation, made a good attempt and explore cooperative education of the general level, to broaden the education of vocational education services, and is conducive to the development of vocational education.
(2) to accelerate the integration of educational resources, saving the government input costs, with a strong educational and social benefits. The general level combination of first, the more effective use of professional teachers in vocational schools and existing equipment and facilities, to enhance the vocational school effectiveness. Second, it helps to integrate educational resources to achieve scientific development. The third is to save the input costs of the government to avoid duplication of investment and construction, to concentrate financial resources on doing big things to do events, and show a better social benefits.
Second, the general technical implementation of the curriculum process and protection
General technology course is a new course, the highlights and difficulties of the high school curriculum reform. Based on this premise, in November 2008, Zhengzhou City Science and Technology Industrial School and Zhengzhou to carry out grade Pu cooperation – Zhengzhou City Science and Technology Industrial School of apparel design and technology professional advantage, General technical courses for to Zhengzhou four high school students – costume design module elective courses in teaching. In the subsequent two years successively as Zhengzhou 12, nine in the general technical teaching cooperation, training a total of more than 3,000 people, the following is a specific implementation process.
A course program development
Reference to the outline of the national common technical elective courses, the school has established a special group to seriously study the national outline, refined on the basis of national outline for the actual situation of my school and high school teaching, school General Technology – costume design elective courses, teaching programs, and the recognition and approval of higher authorities, program profiles are as follows: Clothing is one of the basic needs of people’s lives, occupies an important position in people’s lives. Any era clothing carrying the rich cultural atmosphere, reflecting the level of development of certain human characteristics and science and technology.
Content standards in this module to select the four themes, clothing and materials, clothing and culture, dress design and costume design. ” Emphasis on understanding of clothing and clothing materials, understanding of the relationship between clothing and clothing materials and clothing fabrics reasonable choice in the clothing and materials. Focuses on understanding the relationship between clothing and culture in the clothing and culture “, and stressed that a typical case of comparison, analysis and comment on the clothing style and color of the expression of cultural identity and cultural significance. Emphasis on learn to live with common clothing for themselves and others living in the dress design, the formation of the dress Aesthetic Consciousness in the dress design. Stressed in the costume design can initially learn to design, cutting and production of personalized features a simple everyday clothing and communication and evaluation.
2 courses assessment criteria
Elective courses on the basis of the required courses for the conditions of different regions, different schools, in order to meet students with different interests and different development needs and set up the course. These courses to expand students ‘learning basis, help to further improve students’ technology literacy, and develop their expertise.
Clothing and its design reflects the new concept of clothing, clothing and dress sense, plays an important role to improve the students’ aesthetic taste. The module is suitable for students who are interested in this or related fields. The assessment criteria of the module is divided into three parts: attendance, the theoretical part, practical training part of the comprehensive assessment to determine the grade, those who pass get elective credits 2 credits.
(3) high-quality teaching resources and support
School in nearly a decade of development, professional clothing and gradually formed a large number of excellent clothing professional teachers, all teachers are clothing Bachelor degree or above, has trained a number of senior workers, assessor, and teaching rookies and experts, has three professional teachers to participate in the national backbone teacher training, six teachers participated in the provincial backbone teacher training. Technicians qualified teacher, the senior-qualified teachers five people, to achieve a double-qualified teachers of the school culture; two teachers with graduate degrees, there are three teachers in graduate school. Each year to undertake Skills Competition in Zhengzhou City, Zhengzhou City, costume design skills contest groups for the fifth consecutive year the first prize.
Advanced training base security
School clothing department practice experimental complex has a total of 500m2 clothing shop, clothing valued at nearly $ 1.5 million practice, training equipment and facilities. The center has a total of nine studio senior clothing studio, dedicated room, cutting room, draping studio, apparel CAD center. September 2011 Department of Education to invest 6 million building a clothing Arts Training Center in Henan Province, 29 studios, meet the general technical courses set up a leading position in Henan Province.
(5) improve the curriculum feedback and teaching evaluation
Costume design elective courses in the required courses based on the conditions of different regions, different schools and courses to meet students with different interests and different needs. These courses to expand students ‘learning basis, help to further improve students’ technology literacy, and develop their expertise. Clothing and its design reflects the new concept of clothing, clothing and dress sense, plays an important role to improve the students’ aesthetic taste. In order to better cognitive taught course student satisfaction rate, we are set after the end of the course teaching evaluation in order to better promote the teaching.
Third, to further develop school-based exploration of the general technical courses
The entire teaching process, we have specialized teachers, the field about, and training hours to arrange for students to come to my school internship this sharing of resources for students, the school is a reasonable optimization. Not only eliminates the high school curriculum on their own to open to the general technical class of the lack of qualified teachers, lack of facilities, venues, but also a vocational high school teachers resources and equipment performance venues to maximize the use of.
University General technical courses have been carried out for nearly three years, we have detailed outlines and handouts, as well as a series of standards, but GM technology as stipulated by the state curriculum has just started, as the new curriculum context of the schools’ curriculum is also facing with new challenges. Characteristics of the school of science and technology education and general technology courses combined, we have not yet ripe experience; General technical courses in which grades set up more reasonable, more in line with the reality of the school, we are constantly thinking; how to expand General technical curriculum resources rank & P facilities, and how these problems with social integration and resource sharing, we need to continue to strengthen the practice and summary, we have an obligation to have the responsibility to assume the burden.
In short, as the curriculum reform is not the absolute end of high school curriculum design is always in a “process”. We should focus on the macro trends in curriculum reform based on the curriculum reform “zone of proximal development” continue to study and explore the law of Technical Education, focusing on the interaction of curriculum design and curriculum practices, and strive to make our technology courses in the students’ development and play a greater contribution to the process of national revival.

