Purpose:From the perspective of performance standards-based teacher education,this article aimed to address progress and challenges of China’s teacher preparation quality assurance system.Design/Approach/Methods:This...Purpose:From the perspective of performance standards-based teacher education,this article aimed to address progress and challenges of China’s teacher preparation quality assurance system.Design/Approach/Methods:This review is based on policy review and case studies.Retrieving to the existing research literature,this research sorted out the policies related to the quality assurance system for university-based teacher preparation in China.Furthermore,this research selected teacher preparation programs from five cases of teacher education colleges of varied levels and used interviews to analyze their attitudes and measures.Findings:The analysis reveals that the quality system for university-based teacher preparation in China’s educational institutions has gone through two main stages:the building stage and the improvement stage.The internal policy tension in China’s teacher preparation quality assurance system is primarily centralized in the dissociation among and segmentation between the relevant standards for teacher education.There is a distinction between“soft”and“hard”policy standards,and reforming the teacher certification testing system also brings a test-oriented bias and a separation of evaluation from education.Institutions of higher education are expected to follow the path of potential-oriented development and concentrate on cooperative partnerships between local communities and schools so as to nurture innovative,professional future educators with high quality.Originality/Value:This article provides a comprehensive and detailed policy analysis as well as empirical evidence for the quality assurance systemfor university-based teacher preparation in China.展开更多
This report draws on data from two articles published by the Center for Teacher Education Research of Beijing Normal University,namely,“Survey Report on the Status Quo of Online Teaching and Related Needs Among Eleme...This report draws on data from two articles published by the Center for Teacher Education Research of Beijing Normal University,namely,“Survey Report on the Status Quo of Online Teaching and Related Needs Among Elementary and Secondary Schools During COVID-19 Prevention and Control:Based on a Sample Survey on School Principals in China”and“Survey Report on the Status Quo of Online Teaching and Related Needs Among Elementary and Secondary School Teachers During COVID-19 Prevention and Control:Based on a Sample Survey on Teachers in China.”展开更多
This paper highlights Chinese teachers’ethical concerns in their relationships with students,colleagues,and students’parents.Through a qualitative study of 26 teachers,it was found that the teachers were often trapp...This paper highlights Chinese teachers’ethical concerns in their relationships with students,colleagues,and students’parents.Through a qualitative study of 26 teachers,it was found that the teachers were often trapped in a dilemma between teaching to students’real development and teaching to the test.The ethics of professional collaboration were compromised by the dominant norms,including interpersonal harmony and respect for older teachers,and by competition among individual teachers to demonstrate good performance.Moreover,in a situation where parents’trust was diminishing,teachers assumed certain teaching and caring responsibilities for children from disadvantaged families.It is suggested that the professionalization of teachers should provide them with more professional space to transform their ethical considerations into practice.展开更多
基金This work was supported by“How normal students grow up to be good Teachers:A study on the learning process and effectiveness of normal students under the mechanism of U-G-S cooperative teacher education,”the International joint research project of Faculty of Education,Beijing Normal University(Project No.ICER201905).
文摘Purpose:From the perspective of performance standards-based teacher education,this article aimed to address progress and challenges of China’s teacher preparation quality assurance system.Design/Approach/Methods:This review is based on policy review and case studies.Retrieving to the existing research literature,this research sorted out the policies related to the quality assurance system for university-based teacher preparation in China.Furthermore,this research selected teacher preparation programs from five cases of teacher education colleges of varied levels and used interviews to analyze their attitudes and measures.Findings:The analysis reveals that the quality system for university-based teacher preparation in China’s educational institutions has gone through two main stages:the building stage and the improvement stage.The internal policy tension in China’s teacher preparation quality assurance system is primarily centralized in the dissociation among and segmentation between the relevant standards for teacher education.There is a distinction between“soft”and“hard”policy standards,and reforming the teacher certification testing system also brings a test-oriented bias and a separation of evaluation from education.Institutions of higher education are expected to follow the path of potential-oriented development and concentrate on cooperative partnerships between local communities and schools so as to nurture innovative,professional future educators with high quality.Originality/Value:This article provides a comprehensive and detailed policy analysis as well as empirical evidence for the quality assurance systemfor university-based teacher preparation in China.
基金Project“How to improve teacher preparation quality”supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(71974016)Project“How to prepare a good teacher”funded the International Joint Research Project of Faculty of Education,Beijing Normal University(CER201905).
文摘This report draws on data from two articles published by the Center for Teacher Education Research of Beijing Normal University,namely,“Survey Report on the Status Quo of Online Teaching and Related Needs Among Elementary and Secondary Schools During COVID-19 Prevention and Control:Based on a Sample Survey on School Principals in China”and“Survey Report on the Status Quo of Online Teaching and Related Needs Among Elementary and Secondary School Teachers During COVID-19 Prevention and Control:Based on a Sample Survey on Teachers in China.”
基金The study is supported by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China,grant No.:14JJD880001.[0]。
文摘This paper highlights Chinese teachers’ethical concerns in their relationships with students,colleagues,and students’parents.Through a qualitative study of 26 teachers,it was found that the teachers were often trapped in a dilemma between teaching to students’real development and teaching to the test.The ethics of professional collaboration were compromised by the dominant norms,including interpersonal harmony and respect for older teachers,and by competition among individual teachers to demonstrate good performance.Moreover,in a situation where parents’trust was diminishing,teachers assumed certain teaching and caring responsibilities for children from disadvantaged families.It is suggested that the professionalization of teachers should provide them with more professional space to transform their ethical considerations into practice.
