What subjects are tested in the Shaanxi Special Post Examination?

The subjects of the Shaanxi Special Post Examination are educational theoretical knowledge and subject professional knowledge.

Educational theoretical knowledge mainly assesses the understanding and application of educational policies and regulations, basic requirements for teachers’ professional ethics, pedagogy, educational psychology, and new curriculum concepts. Among them, the examination content of pedagogy and educational psychology accounts for about 60%. Full score is 100 points. Subject expertise mainly examines subject expertise for the applied position. Full score is 100 points.

Special Post Plan:

The Special Post Plan is a special policy for compulsory education in rural areas in the western region implemented by the central government. It recruits college graduates through open recruitment to the two basic counties in the western region. Teaching in rural schools below the county level, guiding and encouraging college graduates to engage in rural compulsory education, innovating the supplementary mechanism for teachers in rural schools, gradually solving problems such as insufficient total number of teachers and unreasonable structures in rural schools, improving the overall quality of rural teachers, and promoting Balanced development of urban and rural education.

Principles for the implementation of the special post recruitment examination:

1. Adhere to the scope and strict conditions. Counties (cities, districts) included in the "Special Post Plan" must be counties (cities, districts) with an overall shortage of teachers, prominent structural contradictions, and relatively difficult financial resources, but with good work foundations and high enthusiasm. Each county must have posts. Recruit teachers under the "Special Post Plan" who have expired their employment period, passed the assessment, and are willing to stay and teach locally within the approved total establishment.

2. Relatively concentrated and configured in groups. The arrangement of teaching positions for special posts should be based on local actual needs and scientifically matched according to the subject structure. In order to facilitate management, the positions should be relatively centralized to avoid being too dispersed. In principle, one school should arrange 3 to 5 people.

3. Focus on junior high schools and take into account primary schools. Teachers in special posts are mainly placed in rural junior high schools below the county level, and may also take appropriate care of central primary schools in towns and villages. A few county schools where rural students account for about 60% can also appropriately arrange certain teachers in special positions.