Shayang Teachers College is located in Shayang County, Jingmen City, Hubei Province. Its predecessor was Shayang Normal School, which was founded in 1956. The original name of the school was Jingmen Teachers College, and 1960 was renamed Shayang Teachers College. Since its establishment, it has gone through 50 years of ups and downs, from normal school to normal college, and now it is striding forward to undergraduate course. Approved by the Hubei Provincial Department of Education, since the autumn of 2004, the school and Hubei Normal University have jointly offered undergraduate education in Chinese language and literature, mathematics and its application, and primary education.
The school has 23 majors, including primary education, Chinese language and literature, mathematics and applied mathematics, music education, art education, decorative art design, sports, psychological consultation, mathematics education, English education, sports, ideological and political education, primary education, preschool education, modern educational technology, Chinese education, computer application technology, electronic information engineering technology, accounting, e-commerce, secretarial, news editing and production.
The school is the national primary school Chinese backbone teacher training base determined by the Ministry of Education. The campus has beautiful scenery and beautiful environment, and has won the title of civilized unit in Hubei Province and Jingmen City for many times. Good school conditions, computer room, language lab, multimedia classroom, laboratory and other facilities, all kinds of teaching instruments. The school has a group of experts who enjoy provincial government subsidies, teachers awarded by Ceng Xianzi Education Fund and top-notch talents in science and technology, and dozens of masters and doctors are active in the front line of teaching and scientific research.
The school fully implements the education policy of the party and the state, takes social demand as the guide, takes talent training as the center, and takes primary school teacher education as the main body, and cultivates high-quality applied and applied professionals with strong foundation, wide specialty and strong skills to serve basic education and economic and social development. Shayang Teachers College has made outstanding achievements in running schools and has been praised by experts and commended by relevant departments for many times. In June, 2003, the Provincial Planning Commission released the list of the top 100 industries in Hubei Province, and the school was tied with Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University as the leading school of ordinary colleges and universities, which marked that Shayang Normal University entered the forefront of similar colleges and universities in Hubei Province. In 2005, it was rated as the national advanced unit of socialist spiritual civilization construction by the military and civilians, won the excellent organization award at the National College Art Festival, and won the second prize in the dance "Wings of Love".
Over the past 50 years, Shayang Teachers College has trained more than 40,000 primary and secondary school teachers and educational administrative cadres for the society, which has made important contributions to the development of basic education.