厚史载德，踵事增华。重庆师范大学初等教育学院位于重庆市北碚区城北新区，办学源于1906年创立的官立川东师范学堂。前身是川东师范学堂、四川省立第二女子师范学校、重庆市立师范学校、重庆市第一师范学校，2003年并入重庆师范大学，更名为重庆师范大学初等教育学院。学院有着悠久的办学历史和光荣革命传统。  

学院占地170亩，建筑面积7万余平方米，教学设施设备配套齐全。现有在职教职工126人，其中专任教师99人（教授7人、副教授29人，硕士生导师21人，博士28人）；有全日制普通本科及硕士学生2400余人；有附属小学和幼儿园各一所。学院设有小学教育（语文、数学、英语分科方向和全科教师方向）、科学教育、书法学本科专业，设有科学教育学硕士点、科学与技术教育专业硕士点。  

学院坚持“继承百年传统 ，凝练办学特色，培养创新人才，服务小学教育”的办学理念，以培养“全面发展，一专多能”的新时代高素质小学教师为目标，要求师范生素质到达“五能五会”（能说会道，能唱会跳，能写会画，能教会导，能思会研）和“十项全能”（听、说、读、写、算、弹、唱、跳、画、教）。2013年学院招收首批小学教育（全科教师）专业学生，为重庆市农村小学培养高素质的小学教师；先后与24个区县教委合作组建了重庆市首个“UGIS”小学全科教师人才培养联盟，并在全市建立了53个实践教育基地，构建了校地合作的小学全科教师培养模式。学生参加全国师范生教学技能竞赛均取得了优异成绩。学院人才培养质量持续提高，毕业生普遍受到用人单位的欢迎。学院立足基础教育，为社会培养了大批优秀人才，在重庆城区小学的校领导和特级教师中有70%是学院的校友；被评为全国劳动模范、全国模范教师、全国优秀教师、市级特级教师、市级骨干教师的校友就有300余人。近年来，还涌现出了“全国优秀教师”曹瑾、“振兴重庆争光贡献特别奖”获得者王洪英、“全国优秀少先队辅导员”郑高兰等优秀青年教师。  

学院是教育部批准的全国20个小学卓越教师培养改革试点院校之一。小学教育是重庆市一流专业和特色专业；科学教育是全国第一个科学教育本科专业、校级特色专业、市级一流专业；书法学是重庆市唯一的师范类书法本科专业。学院拥有3个市级科研平台（重庆市儿童发展与教师教育研究中心、重庆市社会科学普及基地、重庆市科普基地）和3个校级科研平台（重庆师范大学科技教育与传播研究中心、重庆师范大学书法研究院、重庆师范大学儿童阅读与语文教育研究中心）。近年来，学院主持国家人文社科基金项目5项，国家自然科学基金项目2项，教育部科研项目10项，市级科研项目80项（其中重点项目5项），校级科研项目98项，横向科研项目17项；发表高质量论文188篇（其中A类98篇，B类90篇），出版学术专著、教材共79部。立项教育部首批新文科研究与改革实践项目1项；主持国家级精品共享课程1门，国家级一流本科课程1门，市级一流本科课程4门。主持教改项目52项（其中国家级1项，市级重大项目1项，重点项目4项，校级重点项目5项）；获得高等教育教学成果奖国家级二等奖1项，市级一等奖1项、二等奖1项，校级特等奖1项、一等奖1项。  

学院是重庆市小学教师培训中心，也是教育部“国培计划”示范性项目小学科学教师培训资质机构。近年来，开展了“国培计划”和市内外教师培训80余项（其中包括教育部示范性培训项目13项，省市级国培项目40余项，市内外拓展培训项目30余项），培训了5800余名小学语文、数学、科学等学科的教师和教研员，培训质量名列全国同类学科前茅。学院多次被评为重庆市教师教育工作先进集体和“国培计划先进集体”。  

百年弦歌，辉光日新。站在新的历史起点上，学院将立足重庆，面向西部，坚持小学教育、科学教育、书法学协调发展，抓内涵、创特色、树品牌、求卓越，努力把学院建设成为特色鲜明、西部前列，在全国有重要影响的小学教师教育基地。

With a long history of virtue and successive events of brilliance, School of Primary Education, located in Beibei District of Chongqing, originated from the establishment of the official Eastern China Normal School in 1906. Its predecessors include Eastern China Normal School, Sichuan Second Provincial Women's Normal School, Chongqing Municipal Normal School, and Chongqing First Normal School. In 2003, it merged with Chongqing Normal University and was renamed as School of Primary Education. The school has a long history of education and a glorious revolutionary tradition.

The school covers an area of 170 acres with a building area of over 70,000 square meters. It has complete teaching facilities and equipment. There are currently 126 staff members, including 99 full-time teachers (7 professors, 29 associate professors, 21 master's supervisors, and 28 doctors). There are more than 2,400 full-time undergraduate and master's students, as well as an affiliated primary school and kindergarten. The school offers undergraduate programs in primary education (with specialization in Chinese, mathematics, English, and general education), science education, and calligraphy. It also offers master's programs in science education and science and technology education.

The school adheres to the educational philosophy of "inheriting a century-old tradition, developing distinctive school characteristics, cultivating innovative talents, and serving primary education." It aims to cultivate high-quality primary school teachers with comprehensive development and one specialty plus multiple abilities for the new era. The school requires its students to possess "five abilities and five skills" (the ability to speak, sing, write, teach, and think, as well as the skills of dancing, drawing, playing musical instruments, and teaching) and "ten comprehensive abilities" (listening, speaking, reading, writing, calculating, playing musical instruments, singing, dancing, drawing, and teaching). In 2013, the school admitted the first batch of students majoring in primary education (general teachers) to cultivate high-quality primary school teachers for rural schools in Chongqing. It has established the first "UGIS" alliance for training general teachers in 24 districts and counties, and has established 53 practice education bases throughout the city, forming a model of school-community cooperation in the training of general teachers. The students have achieved excellent results in the national teaching skills competition for normal students. The quality of talent cultivation in the school has been continuously improving, and its graduates are widely welcomed by employers. The school has trained a large number of outstanding talents for basic education, and 70% of the principals and top-level teachers in primary schools in urban areas of Chongqing are alumni of the school. There are more than 300 alumni who have been awarded National Labor Model, National Model Teacher, National Outstanding Teacher, Municipal Top-level Teacher, and Municipal Backbone Teacher. In recent years, outstanding young teachers such as Cao Jin, a National Outstanding Teacher, Wang Hongying, a recipient of the Contribution Award for Promoting Chongqing's Revitalization," and Zheng Gaolan, a National Outstanding Young Pioneer Advisor, have emerged from the school.

The school is one of the 20 national pilot schools for the reform of excellent primary school teacher training approved by the Ministry of Education. Primary education is a first-class and distinctive major in Chongqing. Science education is the first undergraduate major in science education in China, as well as a school-level distinctive major and a first-class major in the city. Calligraphy is the only calligraphy undergraduate major in Chongqing Normal University. The school has three municipal-level research platforms (Chongqing Children's Development and Teacher Education Research Center, Chongqing Social Science Popularization Base, and Chongqing Science Popularization Base) and three school-level research platforms (Chongqing Normal University Science and Technology Education and Communication Research Center, Calligraphy Research Institute, CNU and Children's Reading and Chinese Education Research Center, CNU). In recent years, the school has undertaken five projects funded by the National Social Science Fund, two projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, ten projects funded by the Ministry of Education, 80 municipal-level research projects (including five key projects), 98 school-level research projects, and 17 horizontal research projects. It has published 188 high-quality papers (including 98 in Class A and 90 in Class B) and 79 academic monographs and textbooks. It has also been approved for one of the first batch of new liberal arts research and reform practice projects by the Ministry of Education, and has hosted one national-level excellent shared course, one national first-class undergraduate course, and four municipal-level first-class undergraduate courses. It has undertaken 52 educational reform projects (including one national-level project, one major municipal-level project, four key projects, and five key school-level projects), and has won one national second-class award for higher education teaching achievements, one first-class award and one second-class award at the municipal level, and one special award and one first-class award at the school level.

The school is the training center for primary school teachers in Chongqing and is also a qualified institution for training primary school science teachers under the Ministry of Education's National Training Program demonstration project. In recent years, it has carried out more than 80 National Training Program and local teacher training programs (including 13 demonstration training projects of the Ministry of Education, more than 40 national training projects at the provincial and municipal levels, and more than 30 within-municipality and external training projects), training over 5,800 primary school teachers and educational researchers in subjects such as Chinese, mathematics, and science. The quality of training ranks among the top in the country. The school has been repeatedly recognized as an Chongqing Advanced Collective in Teacher Education and an Advanced Collective of National Training Program.

With a century of history and continuous progress, the school will be based in Chongqing, facing the western region, and adhere to the coordinated development of primary education, science education, and calligraphy. It will focus on enhancing its connotation, creating distinctive characteristics, establishing a brand, and striving for excellence. The school aims to become a nationally influential base for primary school teacher education.