From October 20 to October 22, students from our School of Politics and Public Administration and School of Life Sciences won the special prizes, first and second prizes of the 7^th session of the "Chinese Cup" National Teaching Contest for Teachers College Students in Linfen municipality of Shanxi province, sponsored by Microteaching Research Association and undertook by Shanxi Normal University.

　　The competition contains teaching design awards and teaching skill awards. Coming from 91 universities nationwide, 358 undergraduates majored in biology and 262 majored in politics participated in the competition. The contestants competed in four aspects: teaching design, elaborating design ideas, simulated teaching, and on-the-spot defense. Our contestants won the unanimous praise from the judges for their solid basic skills, artful teaching design, exquisite PPT, wonderful explanations and professional quality, and stood out of the fierce competition with a high level of performance.

　　Among them, Zhang Wenlong, Wang Changbo, Cao Xinfeng and Zhang Qing from the School of Politics and Public Administration won the special prize of teaching skills, Wang Yufeng won the first prize in teaching skills. Zhang Wenlong, Wang Changbo, Wang Yufeng and Zhang Qing won the first prize of teaching design and Cao Xinfeng won the second prize.

　　Liu Yanjing and Wang Mingxing of the School of Life Science won the special prize in teaching skills. Liu Qianqian, Gao Shuang and Xu Zhimei of the School of Life Science won the first prize in teaching skills. Liu Yanjing, Liu Qianqian and Xu Zhimei won the second prize in teaching design.