Exploring Paths to Enhance Students' Innovative Abilities Based on Multifaceted Teaching Models
Shi Yuxuan

Dhonburi Rajabhat University, BangkokThon BuriWat Kanlaya 172 Itsaraphap Road Wat Kanlaya Thon Buri District, Bangkok, 10600;

Abstract：This study took the Department of Design, College of Arts, Guangxi University as the practical field, and strived to explore the specific pathways of diversified teaching models in enhancing students' innovative capabilities. Through a questionnaire survey involving 284 students and 28 teachers, it focused on examining five key dimensions: curriculum system, resource integration, faculty development, evaluation mechanism, and cultural ecology. The investigation and research revealed that in the dimension of curriculum integration, a teaching closed-loop with a close combination of "theory-practice-industry" was constructed. For example, the PBL teaching project themed on Zhuang brocade culture (Aksela, 2019) effectively promoted the improvement of students' technical integration ability. In the dimension of resource upgrading, the establishment of smart laboratories and interdisciplinary collaboration platforms strongly supported the exploration and practice of integrating traditional ethnic symbols (such as bronze drum patterns) into modern design. In the dimension of faculty transformation, the implementation of no less than 80 hours of industry-immersion training for teachers annually, correspondingly, led to a significant increase in the award-winning rate of students in professional competitions. In the dimension of dynamic evaluation, innovation portfolios were introduced to track students' performance in three aspects: learning process, ability development, and value creation, which resulted in the improvement of knowledge transfer efficiency. In the dimension of cultural empowerment, the introduction of Cognitive Behavioral Training (CBT) and the establishment of a constructive fault-tolerance mechanism helped alleviate students' innovation anxiety. Practice showed that this had an obvious positive impact on the commercial success rate of incubated projects. The empirical results indicated that diversified teaching models effectively activated students' innovative potential mainly through the reconstruction of abilities in four aspects: technical integration, cross-border collaboration, cultural innovation, and problem-solving. This study holds that this exploration has initially verified a replicable path of innovative education, which can provide valuable practical references and systematic ideas for the teaching reform of design-related majors.

Keywords: teaching models; innovative capabilities; art and design

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