Initial teacher preparation and teachers’ continuing professional development are two significant pillars of the teacher education enterprise. The former encompasses a wide range of teachereducation initiatives at th...Initial teacher preparation and teachers’ continuing professional development are two significant pillars of the teacher education enterprise. The former encompasses a wide range of teachereducation initiatives at the levels of diploma, bachelor’s degree, postgraduate diploma, and even master’s degree for teacher licensure purposes. These are widely documented in the literature.What is important is how teacher professional development contributes to bolstering the teachereducator force, which is relatively insufficiently documented due to the very fact that different educational systems have somewhat different expectations of such programs in relation to the ideologies and theories underpinning the teacher professional development program design and curriculum offering. Taking stock of a postgraduate diploma program in English language teaching(PGDELT) for teachers’ continuing professional development with a 31-year history housed at a premier teacher education institution in Singapore, which has successfully graduated over 1, 000 English language teachers for colleges and universities in China, I intend to highlight some of its key features, as a former student and then a lecturer on the program, in order to draw implications for sustainable growth of language teacher education programs, especially those whose main purposes are to prepare teachers of English as a second or foreign language(ESL/EFL) and provide continuing professional development opportunities for such inservice teachers.展开更多
This thesis makes an analysis of the current situation of higher vocational education teachers, illustrates professional ability constitution of teachers engaged in higher vocational education, and discusses the appro...This thesis makes an analysis of the current situation of higher vocational education teachers, illustrates professional ability constitution of teachers engaged in higher vocational education, and discusses the approaches to cultivate young teachers. It finally arrives at a conclusion that in order to enable young teachers to grow into excellent higher vocational education teachers, there should be the cultivation of creativity of young teachers on the basis of cultivation of general ability and special ability; moreover, young teachers should be continuously encouraged, vocational education recognition be improved, and vocational education teachers construction be stabilized.展开更多
文摘Initial teacher preparation and teachers’ continuing professional development are two significant pillars of the teacher education enterprise. The former encompasses a wide range of teachereducation initiatives at the levels of diploma, bachelor’s degree, postgraduate diploma, and even master’s degree for teacher licensure purposes. These are widely documented in the literature.What is important is how teacher professional development contributes to bolstering the teachereducator force, which is relatively insufficiently documented due to the very fact that different educational systems have somewhat different expectations of such programs in relation to the ideologies and theories underpinning the teacher professional development program design and curriculum offering. Taking stock of a postgraduate diploma program in English language teaching(PGDELT) for teachers’ continuing professional development with a 31-year history housed at a premier teacher education institution in Singapore, which has successfully graduated over 1, 000 English language teachers for colleges and universities in China, I intend to highlight some of its key features, as a former student and then a lecturer on the program, in order to draw implications for sustainable growth of language teacher education programs, especially those whose main purposes are to prepare teachers of English as a second or foreign language(ESL/EFL) and provide continuing professional development opportunities for such inservice teachers.
文摘This thesis makes an analysis of the current situation of higher vocational education teachers, illustrates professional ability constitution of teachers engaged in higher vocational education, and discusses the approaches to cultivate young teachers. It finally arrives at a conclusion that in order to enable young teachers to grow into excellent higher vocational education teachers, there should be the cultivation of creativity of young teachers on the basis of cultivation of general ability and special ability; moreover, young teachers should be continuously encouraged, vocational education recognition be improved, and vocational education teachers construction be stabilized.
