The Primary Education major fully implements the party's education policy, and actively adapts to the national basic education reform and the high-quality and balanced development of Zhejiang compulsory education for teachers' professional quality requirements. This major cultivates high-quality professional primary school teachers who have noble ethics and strong educational feelings, comprehensive literacy and solid practical skills, and have certain teaching expertise and potential for sustainable development.

MainCourses:

Educational core courses: Child Psychology, Pedagogical Principles, Educational Research Methods, etc.

Core courses for Chinese: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Children's Literature, Primary Chinese Courses and Teaching Theory, etc.

Core courses for mathematics: Mathematical Analysis, Probability and Statistics, Primary School Mathematics Curriculum and Teaching Theory, etc.

Science core courses: General Physics and General Physics Experiments, General Chemistry and General Chemistry Experiments, Elementary Science Courses and Teaching Theory, etc.

Schoolsystem: four years

DegreeAwarded: Bachelor of Education

The Primary Education major is a national first-class undergraduate construction major, and a advantageous and characteristic major of Zhejiang Province's "13th Five-Year" Plan. It has a strong and well-structured faculty with 73.6% of senior titles and 52.5% of doctor degrees. This major possess a primary education professional curriculum system which has "platform + module", integrated general education, subject education, and professional education. It adheres to the core talent training model of "problem center-case carrier-deep inquiry-performance evaluation", and focuses on cultivating students’ teaching expertise and teaching research ability.

Employment and further study: Most of the graduates of this major are engaged in primary education. The employment rate is high. The employment rate of this major in the past three years is 99.24%, 96.94%, and 100% respectively. Most of the graduates are formally employed by public schools in Zhejiang province, including prestigious schools. The overall satisfaction of graduates has been around 90% in the past three years.

Updated in November 2023