Pre-service Teachers' Professional State Of Readiness Study

Teacher professional development does not begin from being a teacher formally,but from the moment when the normal school students step into the field of teachers' pre-service education.As pre-service teachers,they should make full preparation to be a qualified teacher and strict themselves according to the standard of qualified teachers.What is the according to the standard of qualified teachers? What kind of preparation should the pre-service teachers make? Can the current pre-service education make them ready for the preparations? What is the current status of pre-service teachers' professional readiness? How could they prepare better? All of these issues are discussed in this research.Based on the practice-meaning oriented theory of teacher professional development,this paper explains the understanding of teacher professional development from the five aspects: professional intention,professional skills,professional knowledge,professional ethic and professional experience.Secondly,this research designs the questionnaire of teacher professional development according to the above five aspects,surveying among 105 in-service teachers from C Normal University and 50 in-service teachers to compare.And according to the comparison,we can conclude that pre-service teachers greatly differ from the in-service teachers in professional experience and professional ethic.In professional skills and knowledge,the marks of the pre-service teachers are slightly lower than those of the in-service teachers,while in professional intention and ethic,the marks of the pre-service teachers are obviously higher than those of the in-service teachers.There was no significant difference between the total marks of them.Then,this research interviews 20 pre-service teachers deeply.After sorting and analyzing the materials of the interviews,we could also conclude the current status of pre-service teachers' professional readiness.Finally,this paper compares the mode,curriculum and exercitation of the pre-service education in the USA,the UK,Singapore and China.Furthermore,after comparing and combing scientific data with the material of the interviews,the research makes some suggestions to improve the current status of pre-service teachers' professional readiness.