Foreign Teachers In School-based Training Experience And Its Revelation

Since the 1980's. the major feature of global education reform is regarding the improvement of teacher's quality as the breach of raising the education quality, the emphasis of which is in-service training. "If the education reform is against the will of teacher or without the engagement of feachcr. il will never succeed." From the view of the world, the idea of school-based developmenl in developed countries is to satisfy the need of more intense contest in national power. It charges the idea of taking teacher training as learning subject knowledge or as the patent of university or specialist institution. The unique status and effect of school and teacher in teacher's professional development have been realized and aroused general concern. Concrete education action and the characterized problem appeared in the real class situation enter into the frame of teacher training, which'makes the training more directive and effective.Alongside the implementation of qualities-oriented education and the establishment of three-level curriculum system, we must train the teachers in primary and high schools. And help them master and undcrsiand the idea and theory concerned. We need to learn from foreign experience, definite the meaning of school-based teacher training, and then explore how to construct the school-based teacher training system, change school into the cradle of teacher professional development. To a certain extent, the success of the new round of education reform hinges on the direction and quality of the teacher training in the new time.(n the world the traditional in-service training is a from-up-down system, dominated by government-turn crsity-collcgc for advanced studies, which is outside-controlled and ineffective, fn the past 2" years, (he developed countries such England and US have began to move down the heart of teacher's in-scn ice training, try to make the school-based teacher training into the major part of in-service training. Because it is directive, full-member engagement and can arouse the enthusiasm of the teachers, it has aroused general concern and become the major part of in-service training system.In order to implement the full-member teacher training which is stipulated in the continue education project for teachers in primary and higher schools face to 21st century, we must quicken the spread of researching and implement school-based training. Obviously, it's necessary to study the ripe experience of other counties and use it for reference. This dissertation is aimed at making a systematic analysis of the experience about school-based teacher training in foreign countries and put forward some suggestions in the light of our specific conditions. This thesis contains four part. In the first part, it analyzes the documents concerned, defines the concepts; the second part recounts the history of in-service teacher training and school-based teacher training and summarizes the theories concerned. From the view of aims system, cooperation mechanism, operation system and evaluation system, The third part analyzes the experience of foreign countries school-based teacher training; The last part is about enlightenment On the basis of studying the history and present condition of in-service teacher training in our country, it puts forward the enlightenment for us from the school-based teacher training in foreign countries and forecasts the prospect of school-based teacher training in our country.