Necessity of introducing children's literature courses in teacher training programs in China

本刊1991年3期发表了一篇〈英美儿童文学——师范院校英语专业应当填补的空白〉,表明我们对开设这个课种的支持。东北师大的外籍教师Tova Meltzer博士在下面这篇文章中,根据北美的情况,结合中国的外语教学,进一步论述英美儿童文学课程对于学习生动活泼的英语和陶冶健康的情操的意义,并对儿童文学书目做了补充。

From Mutual Creation to Mutual Benefit:China’s National Teacher Training Program between Higher Teacher Education and K-12 Teachers

Sustainable Development Goal(SDG 4)lays solid theoretical foundation for the development of higher teacher education in improving the quality of teaching faculty nationwide.Sustainable teacher training paves a way for teacher professional development in the long run.China’s“National Teacher Training Program”serves a connection between higher teacher education and K-12 teachers in multiple perspectives when exploring K-12 teachers’improvement of the essence by upgrading the initiative of the program with the assistance of educational technology and modern educational philosophy from mutual creation to mutual benefit.Direction orientation strategic design based on demand for teaching faculty,curriculum setting in modules,and characteristics creation have been carried out to upgrade the training of teacher colleges and National Teacher Training Program in the future for achieving a win-win situation between higher teacher education and K-12 education.