What Is Teacher Education?

Teacher education, professional education to train teachers. Including pre-service training, initial appraisal trials and on-the-job training. It started in 1684 as a teacher training institution founded by La Salle in Reims, France. In 1695, Frank established a faculty in Harley. After that, short-term teacher training institutions appeared in Germany and Austria. This form has been imitated by other western countries. In the fall of 1794, the French Provisional Parliament passed a decree. In January 1795, a public normal school was established in Paris. Funded by the French government in 1808, a higher normal school was established on the basis of the former Paris Normal School in 1810, and organizational links were established with the University of Paris. In 1845 it was changed to Paris Normal University. ^[1]

Normal education

The improvement of people's cultural and scientific level in various countries and nations is largely determined by the level of teachers at all levels and types of schools. The establishment of teacher education is a basic construction in education.

Some western countries, such as Germany and France, have established some institutions for training teachers at the end of the 17th century. By the 1860s

According to the development and trend of the world's normal education, combined with the current development of China's normal education, the author thinks that in the future, China's normal education will show the following development trends:

Higher education structure

Due to China's vast size and large population, the economic, technological, and cultural development between regions is seriously unbalanced. Such imbalances and differences will inevitably lead to differences in the scale, level, and quality of normal education in China. Therefore, the teacher education hierarchy structure consisting of three levels of normal schools, teachers colleges, and normal colleges (normal universities) will continue to exist for a period of time. However, from the future China s socio-economic, educational development needs, and the world s teacher education needs From the perspective of development trends, the structure of normal education in our country will gradually develop to a higher level, gradually eliminate the secondary normal level, increase the proportion of junior college levels, especially undergraduate levels, which is the overall trend of the reform of the structure of normal education in China in the future.

Teacher education model is increasingly open

The development of world teacher education shows that with the development of society and economy, the model of teacher education will inevitably change from a monolithic closure to a pluralistic opening. From the perspective of the history of the development of normal education in China, the model of normal education in our country was "imitation of Japan", then "beauty", and then "learning of the Soviet Union" was always imitation rather than original, and the objects of imitation were A unified closed teacher education system is the main body. With the further deepening of reform and opening up, especially the transition from the traditional planned economic system to the market economic system, the shortcomings of the unified closed teacher education model have become increasingly prominent, and it is imperative to take a pluralistic and open road. This will definitely bring a great impact to the existing closed normal education system, and it also indicates that the normal education model in our country will evolve to a pluralistic and open direction in the future.

Teacher profession is becoming more professional

Teacher profession is a specialized profession, it has specialized theories and skills, has unique professional ethics requirements and professional autonomy in this industry. At present, the professionalization of teachers in China is still in its infancy. "

Trends in the development of normal education The development of normal education in countries around the world has the following characteristics and trends:

Qualification requirements are put forward for primary and secondary school teachers. In order to ensure the quality of education in primary and secondary schools, many countries have stipulated that they must have a certain level of education and obtain teacher licenses through teacher training before they can serve as teachers in primary, secondary and kindergarten. Incumbent teachers or volunteers who do not have the required qualifications, if the school needs, they must also pass a certain degree of inspection and pass the examination to obtain a teacher license before they can officially serve as teachers. These regulations have aroused people's attention to teacher education to a certain extent and improved the status of teacher education.

Gradually decrease

Teacher education emphasizes the process of teacher training before starting a job. Teacher education is a collective term for teacher training and training. It is a continuous, developable and integrated pre-service training, induction training and on-the-job training for teachers in accordance with the different stages of teacher professional development under the guidance of lifelong education. Education process.

At present, there are several types of school education in China's normal education: higher normal universities; higher normal colleges; secondary normal schools; colleges of education; teacher training schools; ^[3]