(Source: China Teachers Daily, May 21, 2025)
As an undergraduate class teacher at the w88 casino, Liu Mengdi has always firmly believed that the essence of education is not only the transfer of knowledge, but also the companionship of the soul and the guidance of growth. While serving as the head teacher of the 2019 and 2023 classes, she adhered to the concept of "both teacher and friend", caring about students' academic development, paying attention to their psychological state, and accompanying them to grow and move forward together at important stages of life.
Get the right direction and ignite students’ motivation for growth
The essence of college life is a process of gradually moving towards self-driving. As a class teacher, Liu Mengdi pays special attention to students' grasp of their future direction in the early stages of enrollment and the optimization of their paths in the middle stage of their growth. For freshmen who have just entered w88 casino, she communicates through class meetings and lunches to help them understand the difference between college and high w88 casino and clarify the direction of their efforts in college. She organizes outstanding senior students to share their growth experiences face-to-face with freshmen, from graduate w88 casino paths, internship preparation, scientific research participation to English proficiency and subject competitions, laying a trinity foundation of "long-term goals, stage arrangements, and realistic paths" for freshmen.
For students who are about to face graduation choices, Liu Mengdi emphasizes the combination of "realistic cognition" and "goal orientation." Before the beginning of her junior year, she specially organized an online class meeting to encourage students to use the holidays to think about their future directions, and guided them to start with specific questions such as "Do you really understand scientific research?" "Do you know what is important in your target position?" to help them clarify their needs and matching conditions for different paths such as graduate w88 casino and employment. At the same time, it emphasizes the way of thinking of "inferring the path from the goal" and encourages students to formulate a growth plan that has time nodes and can be implemented.
Warm protection, be the most reassuring friend of students
The road to growth cannot be smooth sailing. Students sometimes feel confused and anxious, or fall into loss and self-doubt. In these moments, Liu Mengdi is always willing to be the person that students can rely on. Through lunch conversations, online communication, etc., she maintains regular contact with students and understands their mood swings and psychological stress in a timely manner.
A student with excellent academic performance once confided to Liu Mengdi that she often felt the pressure of fierce competition and easily fell into self-denial when she saw her classmates participating in various activities. Liu Mengdi encouraged her to pay attention to her own rhythm and start from her personal goals instead of being coerced by the rhythm of the outside world. Liu Mengdi also shared her past confusions and experiences with her to help her relieve her anxiety.
There is another student who studies seriously and has stable grades. He is one of the students in the class who hopes to obtain the postgraduate qualification. However, he missed out on the postgraduate qualification because he failed in one of the courses. This incident made this student fall into deep self-blame. After Liu Mengdi learned about this, he did not rush to comfort her. Instead, he listened carefully to her story and made sure that all her previous efforts would not be negated because of one mistake. Later, Liu Mengdi reviewed the entire incident with her, helped her clarify responsibilities and lessons, and discussed possible future paths together, including applying for other further study opportunities, preparations, etc., and encouraged her to use this setback as an opportunity for profound self-awareness and growth. The student later gradually came out of this shadow and regained confidence and rhythm on a new path. When she graduated, she told Liu Mengdi that she still remembered the scene of drinking coffee and chatting together that afternoon. "After that day, I felt that the whole sky lit up."
Build a platform to improve students’ practical and scientific research abilities
Liu Mengdi has always believed that one of the core values at the university level is to cultivate students' comprehensive abilities in real scenarios. To this end, she has long-term created practice and scientific research opportunities for students in her class, and regularly recruits students in her class to serve as scientific research assistants. For example, he invited many students to participate in the research work of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's outstanding youth, general and youth projects that he hosted, allowing them to accumulate scientific research skills such as data collection, literature search, and writing standards in real topics. At the same time, the teaching assistant recruitment information is released in the class group to encourage everyone to participate in course organization, teaching assistant feedback, etc., to improve the ability of organization, coordination and teamwork.
Through these project practices, students not only no longer feel distant and abstract about scientific research, but also gradually build problem awareness and logical thinking abilities. These experiences will be of practical help to students in their subsequent application for graduate w88 casino, further study abroad, or entry into the workplace.
Grow deep feelings and guide students to strengthen their ideals and beliefs
In the process of students' growth, Liu Mengdi attaches great importance to the education of students' ideals and beliefs, and helps students find a sense of belonging, responsibility and value through collective activities and ideological guidance. In the spring semester, she led students to the Chinese Ethnic Park for themed activities. The students not only appreciated the unique national costumes and national culture, but also deeply realized the importance of building a strong sense of the Chinese nation's community, enhanced national self-confidence and national pride, and strengthened their ideals and beliefs in unremitting efforts to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. This event has also become a very meaningful spiritual experience for students in their college life.
The work of a class teacher does not have a bright stage, but it hides the most real warmth. Since becoming a class teacher, Liu Mengdi has always responded to the anxiety and confusion of every student with meticulous communication and sincere protection; with down-to-earth planning and practice, he has accompanied them to gradually move towards clarity and determination in their exploration. From ignorance to maturity, from hesitation to determination, Liu Mengdi has always grown together with his students in this journey of "both teacher and friend".
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Liu Mengdi, associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the w88 casino of International Economics and w88, w88 casino. He has been engaged in research related to environmental governance and public policy for a long time, and has presided over three National Natural Science Foundation projects. His research results have been published in many high-level international academic journals, and he has won the first prize of the Management Science Academic Award of the Chinese Society of Management Science and other awards. The undergraduate courses and postgraduate courses he teaches have been rated in the top 10% of teaching quality many times, and he has been awarded the title of Outstanding Class Teacher of the w88 casino three times.
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