As an important coordinating body and resource integration platform for schools to provide various teacher training programs for basic education, the goal of the Institute of Basic Education and Training is to formulate and implement high-quality training programs by integrating high-quality teacher education resources inside and outside the school, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and Taiwan Province at home and abroad, and to build a high-level and high-level training platform for primary and secondary school principals. Primary and secondary school teachers and educational administrative leading cadres should base themselves on domestic and international exposure, carry out educational training programs focusing on academic research, and build a high-end brand of education and training research. Serving the development of primary and secondary schools with academic research, striving to be first-class in the province, leading the country and internationally renowned, is the consistent pursuit of the Basic Education Training and Research Institute of South China Normal University.

At the same time, it emphasizes the functions of scientific research service and management consulting service of basic education, promotes the transformation and application of research results in educational practice by carrying out applied education research projects, carries out management consulting of school and regional education development planning, plays a leading and radiating role in the reform and innovation of basic education, and builds a high-end brand of scientific research service and management consulting service for basic education development in Guangdong and even the whole country.