对美国选择性教师教育的反思和前瞻

Alternative Teacher Education in America : Reflections and Prospects

选择性教师教育是美国非传统教师教育方式的统称。它自20世纪80年代产生以来。以鲜明的特点弥补了美国传统教师教育的不足.为美国缓解教师数量的短缺和满足教师队伍多样化的需求做出了一定贡献。但是,它也面临一系列问题,突出表现在:计划的开发和实施仍局限在教师急需领域,培养的质量也不容乐观,中小学对教师候选人的实践支持并不到位,留任安置也不尽合理,并且整个培养模式对美国正在倡导的教师专业化理念构成挑战。它今后的发展状况,从根本上说,取决于是否能够有效解决目前所面临的问题。

Alternative Teacher Education (ATE) in America generally refers to non-traditional teacher education. With its distinctive features, ATE has, ever since its emergence in the 1980s, made up for the weaknesses of traditional teacher education in America, and contributed properly to alleviating the shortage of teachers and meeting the requirement of the diversification of teaching body in America. However, meantime it brings with itself a series of problems,which can prominently be listed as follows: the teachers trained are still limited in number and dissatisfactory in quality; the candidates are not well supported in terms of practice; the teaching arrangements are less than reasonable; and the whole training modle challenges the idea of Teacher Professionalization, Which is being advocated in America. In the final analysis, the development of ATE in future depends radically on whether it can solve with effect the problems lying ahead.