The School of Education is one of the leading schools in Hangzhou Normal University. Its history can be traced back to the Zhejiang Two-level Normal School first established in 1908. Over the past 100 years, education forerunners such as Jing hengyi, Ma xulun, Li shutong, Lu xun, etc, pioneered teaching at this Government School. The School has trained numerous intellectual leaders such as Ma Xulun, Wang Lingzhi, Feng Zikai, Pan Tianshou, and Rou Shi etc., and cultivated over 100,000 talents who become major forces of educational reform and innovation in China, such as Lu Xingwei, Zhu Xuedan, Luo Yunxian, Zhang Tianxiao, Yang Yiqing etc. Being the most prestigious training base for both kindergarten and elementary school teachers in Zhejiang Province, the school enjoys wide acclaim. Its graduates work in all walks of life throughout the country.

At present, the school has more than 190 full-time teaching and administrative staff members, among whom 60% are professors and associate professors, 60% are holders of doctoral degrees and 40% have overseas experience of study and work. The school of education now has five top scholars who have either attended the “National Thousand Talents Project” or been honored as one of the “National Excellent Young Scholars”. The current number of registered undergraduates is more than 1900, and postgraduates are over 450.

The School of Education has two academic master-accredited fields—master of education, and master of psychology, and two applied master-accredited fields—master of education and master of applied psychology. Both education and psychology have been selected as first-class disciplines in Zhejiang province during the “thirteenth-five” construction period. In particular, education is listed as one of the privileged and distinctive disciplines of specially-developed universities in Zhejiang province in the second group.

The School of Education offers eight undergraduate programs: Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Technology, Applied Psychology, Special Education. The School of Education is the only school in Zhejiang province to launch The Reform Project of Training Program for Excellent Elementary Education Teachers. Elementary Education program is among the first group of undergraduate majors in China, and a privileged major of Zhejiang province during the “twelfth-five” and “thirteenth-five” period. It has passed second-level authentication of “normal” majors hosted by ministry of education in 2018. Early childhood education is listed as one of the privileged majors in Zhejiang province during the “thirteenth-five” period, Special Education is one of the new majors of Zhejiang province in the “thirteenth-five” period, Educational Technology is one of the “normal” innovative majors of Zhejiang province in the “thirteenth-five” period.

The School of Education has established a series of provincial and university-based research centers including the Graduate School of Educational Science, Graduate School of Psychological Science, Institute of Psychological Health, Institute of Cognitive and Brain Diseases, Institute of Teacher Development, Institute of Educational Evaluation for Elementary and Secondary Schools, Institute of Zhe-pai prestigious Teachers, and the Center of Psychological Crisis Intervention for universities students in Zhejiang Province. It also owns many scientific labs with high-reputation such as the Lab of Educational Technology, the Lab of Psychology, the Lab of Brain and Cognitive Science, The Lab of Science, the Lab of Teachers’ behavior Training. The Key Laboratory of Cognitive Impairment Assessment Technology is one of key labs in Zhejiang province. The Training Center of Teaching Skills is the Provincial Experimental Center of Teaching Demonstration.

      In recent years, the School of Education has won two National Teaching Achievement Awards. It has over 30 academic projects with the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China, nine provincial teaching achievement awards in higher education and basic education. It offers one National Excellent Course, four Provincial Excellent Courses and ten provincial Open Courses.

Inheriting the one-hundred year tradition of teacher education and humanistic art education, the School of Education aims to cultivate “excellent teachers for the future,” emphasizing teaching-skill training and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education among students, and providing unique higher education with “solid disciplinary foundation, strong teaching skills, high artistic literacy”. The Six Artistic Talents Program Show (Public Speaking, Singing, Dancing, Playing Musical Instruments, Calligraphy and Painting) has been chosen as the demonstration program of the Tribute to China’s Traditional Culture by the Ministry of Education of China. The Commonweal Entrepreneurship Team “Sending love to Xijiang” won the golden prize in the tenth Challenge Cup in Zhejiang Province, the silver prize in the national Challenge Cup of Entrepreneurship Contest , and the golden prize in the second “Internet+” Entrepreneurship Contest for Undergraduate Students in Zhejiang, as well as the silver prize in the second National“Internet+” Entrepreneurship Contest for Undergraduate Students. As a result of these achievements and others, 97% of HZNU graduates get employed and widely recognized.

Maintaining its commitment to serve society, the School has built over 20 affiliated schools, including those in Hangzhou Dongcheng Education Group, and Hangzhou Normal University’s Experimental School in Jiaxin Economic Development Zone. The school is also affiliated with over 70 educational cooperative platforms and bases for teacher development and educational internship, including Hangzhou Xuejun Primary School, Hangzhou Tianchang Education Group, Hangzhou Qiushi Education Group, where the school is involved in school-enterprise, school-school and school-government cooperation projects.

Following the idea of open up, the school of education has established close relationships with universities from overseas regions and countries, and gradually increased its level of internationalization. The school has built partnerships with the University of Wisconsin, University of North Texas, Purdue University, Central Tennessee State University, Toronto University, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of Oulu in Finland, Busan National University of Education in South Korea, Northeast University of Japan, University of Canberra in Australia, University of Nottingham Trent University in UK and Taiwan Normal University.