Learning by Researching:Achievements and Actions of Teacher Learning in a School-University Collaborative Project

Purpose:This study explores the achievements and process of a group of Chinese primary school teachers learning from a research-based school-university collaborative project.Design/Approach/Methods:We used qualitative methods to construct our research design,collecting data through participatory observations of weekly meetings,teacher interviews,and participants'reflective journals.Both thematic analysis and discursive analysis were employed as strategies to scrutinize the data.Findings:We categorize teachers'learning into five achievements:outcome,processual,democratic,catalytic,and dialogic achievement.A further examination highlights seven successive learning actions composing an implicit mechanism to facilitate these achievements:questioning,analyzing,modeling,examining,implementing,reflecting,and consolidating.Originality/Value:Through this longitudinal study,we more comprehensively record details about teachers'learning as they conduct their own research.Although school-university heterogeneous collaboration has potential conflicts,teachers can improve their problem-solving and knowledge creation and sharing abilities,promoting a sense of professional accomplishment.These findings also suggest the need to reconsider the authentic process of teacher research,a task equally significant for international educators.

Strategies on Promoting Transformative Learning of College English Teachers

Based on the previous case study in promoting transformative learning of college English teachers,who participated in a three-month online training courses,the article made a further research and concluded four strategies on promoting transformative learning of college English Teachers.

Reciprocal Learning:One Teacher’s Narrative

This paper is a personal narrative from the perspective of one teacher in Toronto who participated in the Canada-China Reciprocal Learning in Teacher Education and School Education Partnership Grant Project.I took part in a Sister School partnership between 2013 and 2017.Over the four years,I came to understand relationships in an international professional learning community.Participating in the project gave me the benefit of seeing my practice through an international lens.For my students,it offered a global citizenship experience.Although there are numerous professional development opportunities in Toronto,this partnership extends beyond a lunch and learn,or a full day professional learning.The commitment to my partners has fueled my desire to incorporate new teaching ideas and has required ongoing reflection on my own teaching practice.In this article,I will explain some of the challenges,stages of development,reciprocal learning,and implications for future international professional learning communities.

Policies,Strategies,and the Evolutionary Logic of Large-Scale Teacher Training in China

Purpose:Based on a systematic review of policy documents in China related to teacher training over the past four decades,this paper identifies and analyzes the main policy shifts and strategies in terms of teacher training in China.Design/Approach/Methods:Using quantitative trend analysis,high-frequency word analysis,and content analysis,this study presents the policy changes in and reform of China's national teacher training system and elucidates the reasons for such changes.Findings:Chinese teacher training and practice reforms resonate with the paradigm shifts of international teacher training and development,particularly those based on real-world scenarios.However,innovations have also been made in response to the problems of Chinese in-service teacher training and development,such as the lack of time for teachers and the separation between learning and practice.Such innovations reflect the government's efforts to narrow the gaps between theory,policy,and practice by improving China's macro policy design.Originality/Value:This study contributes to the longitudinal study of policy shifts in teacher training in China.