The Department of Physical Education of Shanghai Institute Of Technology is the physical education teaching unit and the administrative department of physical education directly under the leadership of the university, which consists of the Academic Affairs Office, Teaching and Research Office, Competition Room, Competition Training Room, venues and other management organizations. At present, the Department of Physical Education has a total of 37 faculty and staff members, including 1 professor and doctoral supervisor (member of the National Higher Education Health Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, deputy leader of the policy consultation working group), 6 associate professors, 31 teachers with master's degree and doctor's degree, 5 overseas high-level talents, 6 high-level athletes, forming a high-quality teaching team. The university has 23 individual sports associations with 4000 members. There are 13 university-level sports teams, and Physical education teachers as part-time coaches 13.
The Department of Physical Education earnestly implements the guiding ideology of the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Under the direct leadership of the university Party Committee, it carries out school sports and various forms of campus sports activities, strives to create a campus sports culture of " Cultivate the human nature with sports", and serves the university's "five educations simultaneously" talent training strategy. It actively deepens the reform of physical education, implement the "integrated" teaching management mode in class and after class, construct two platforms of "classroom physical education" and "extracurricular physical education"; builds the two major physical education curriculum module system of "practice teaching" and "theoretical teaching"; the teaching highlights of the featured general course modules "one art (martial arts) and one exercise (aerobics)" are highlighted; form an extracurricular sports activities, education and management system featuring "multiple forms, multiple levels, autonomy, self-governance, and full participation".
Implement the "Outline of the National Fitness Program", actively promote student sunshine sports, organize and plan to carry out a variety of extracurricular sports activities and competitions at the three levels of "school, association and college". In recent years, nearly 60 various intramural sports competitions are held each year, with nearly 14,000 students participating each year, which satisfies students' interest in physical exercise, enlivens campus sports and cultural life, and forms a good atmosphere of loving sports, worshiping sports and loving health.
The Department of Physical Education will continue to uphold the concept of physical education, strive to create a campus sports and cultural atmosphere, and play a due role in cultivating high-level applied technical personnel.
