The Study On American Teacher Professional Development School

At the end of 20th century, the relationship between American educational development and the development of economy and society took on some new trends :the unification of education and economy ,the unification of education and society .Under such circumstance ,some new changes and problems appeared in the inner part of educational system it self .In the aspect of teacher education ,they displayed as the requirement of the unification of training teacher before becoming a teacher and professional development after becoming a teacher ,and the requirement of cooperative responsibilities in teacher education between the universities and the secondary and elementary schools .Thus teacher professional development schools came into being .They are a kind of functional construction in the existing institution of secondary and elementary schools .They try to build a new model of teacher education between the university and the secondary and elementary schools and emphasize that schools are the places for teachers developing .They are the rediscovery of teachers ,green model of educational development ,and continuously creating and innovating .Their engendering and development promoted the growing up of American future teachers ,providing new research sources for university teachers and helped schools achieve their goals .In all ,the teacher professional development schools gave new flavor to American universities ,secondary and elementary schools as well .This new and dynamic model of teacher education also provided valuable experience and inspiration for teacher education in China .