A Probe Into School-based In-service Teacher Training

To advocate and implement school-based in-service teacher training is the requirement of education reform originating from social and economic development. Also it is an inevitable response to the ideas of life-long education, unification of teacher education and teacher professionalization. It is the urgent demand and key safeguard to push on Quality Education and implement the current basic educational curriculum reform smoothly & successfully in China as well. At the same time, it is the reasonable choice of borrowing successful experiences abroad to conquer the ineffectiveness of our traditional teacher training practice. Nevertheless, too many studies are hankering after the topic of school-based training, but some of them are superficial. And the value of it is either exaggerated or derogated. Seeing that, this paper tries to investigate the topic in both concept and implementation following the main line of "what" - "why" - "how" .In details, the thesis is mainly composed of four parts. In Parts 1 and 2, following one sub-line of "what" - "why", the author expounds the connotation of school-based training from its origin and development, defends its rationality from three perspectives of philosophy, sociology & psychology, and also estimates its value reasonably from the discrimination between sorts of in-service teacher training. In Parts 3 and 4, following the other sub-line of "how to implement it" - "why it can be implemented" , the author first sets forth four ways and models to implement school-based training, such as action research, participative training, school-based education research and experience exchanging. Then the author recommends establishing three supportable systems of policy, institution and resources, and also clarifies three relationships, the first between anticipatory teacher education and in-service training, the second between traditional training and school-based training, and the third between "scientific knowledge" and "tacit knowledge" in school-based training.