| The 21 st century is an era of information,knowledge and globalization. ll the countries of the world are exploring the approaches and methods for enhancing teachers’ quality. Along with the raising of life-long education idea, people realize that education should be a continuous process through whole people’s life. The United States of America is one of the countries where the beginning teacher induction was been adopted firstly. As the publishing of "American Normal Education" by Conant in 1963,it has been recognized as the beginning of teacher induction in US.Vertically, American teacher induction has experienced a tough road: from gestate, emerging development, prosperity to mature.In short,American teacher induction completed a transition from fragmented, informal,non-systemic teacher mentoring to integral, formal, systemic teacher induction. And it has become a main developing field for American teacher education. By better understanding the essence of teacher induction for improving teacher qualities and promoting teacher professional development, and the education decentralization policy in the US,every state adopts various ways and detailed methods in beginning teacher induction according to their differences in educational policies and teacher trainingsNowadays, American beginning teacher induction has been well developed. In future the U.S. government will continue to meet and focus on the needs of beginning teachers. It also will improve the social security system of teacher induction and set up a more systematic, scientific and complete system of teacher induction. |
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