The 10th National Effective Teaching conference was held on December 2nd ,2015 in Shanghai. The topic of the seminar is “Unit Teaching Design based on key Competences”. Over 800 people participated in the conference. The participants came from different provinces in China. The topics of the nine effective teaching conferences before are: the idea of effective teaching , the creative use of teaching materials, the effective interaction in classroom teaching, the implementation of the 3D object and evaluation, the classroom norms in the view of effective teaching, the effective teaching view of class analysis, the learning environment design in the view of effective teaching, the development of practice system in the view of effective teaching, and the information technology under the background of cooperative learning. And the topic of this conference is unit teaching design based on key competences.

Prof. Zhong Qiquan and Prof. Wang Binhua, two professors from ECNU, took part in the seminar. Prof. Zhong gave a wonderful lecture on the importance of unit teaching design and Prof. Wang also made an important speech about the meaning of unit teaching design based on key competences. According to Prof. Zhong, key competences are the tendency of international education, whichplays a very important role in the classroom teaching. Unit teaching design should be taken into consideration as the starting point. Prof. Zhong also talked about the six factors of constructivism learning design---situation, coordination, bracket, task, display and reflection. Meanwhile, Prof. Wang introduced the eight key competences from EU and the impact on China to the audiences.