Northwest Normal University, founded in 1902, is located in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. It is a key university jointly established by the Gansu Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education, and has been selected as one of the four universities in the western region supported by the state/KLOC-0. Formerly known as Northwest Normal University, 1988 was renamed Northwest Normal University.
The school has implemented the undergraduate teaching reform project for five consecutive periods: in 2003, the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education was excellent; In 2008, the English major of the Ministry of Education was excellent. As of September, 20 14, the school has 9 national specialties, 2 national excellent courses, 3 national excellent teacher education resources, 74 provincial excellent courses and 7 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers.
In addition, Northwest Normal University also has affiliated education groups, including affiliated middle schools, affiliated middle schools, affiliated primary schools and kindergartens, all of which are model schools in Gansu Province and Lanzhou City. It is the window school of education and teaching reform in Northwest Normal University and the base of educational practice.
Provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers: digital media experimental teaching center, electronic technology basic experimental center, basic physics experimental center, language experimental teaching center, chemistry experimental teaching center, biology experimental teaching center and psychology experimental teaching center.
In the Sixth National Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, Wang Limin, Wang Jiayi, Sun Jian 'an, Li Jinyu and Wan Minggang jointly completed the "Theory and Practice of Teacher Training Model for Rural and Ethnic Education in Western China" and won the second prize. As the third completion unit, the school won the first prize of "Building a teaching team in the west, deepening the curriculum construction and teaching reform of mathematics education, and actively serving basic education". This is the fifth time that this school has won the National Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award following 1989, 1993, 1997 and 2005.