Research On Pre-service Teacher’s Practical Ability Training

Pre-service teachers’ practical ability training is both a traditional and a new topic. Thetraditional pre-service teacher’s training is mainly composed of school education, interspersedwith internships and other practical activities to improve their practical ability. In recent years,there have been many studies on pre-service education, but various difficulties that pre-serviceteachers face after they take teaching positions still get no improvement. The poor cooperationbetween pre-service teachers, the limitation of the tutorial system, and the lack of practicalcourses in school education will seriously affect the development of pre-service teachers. How toreform in colleges and universities to promote the development of pre-service teachers’ practicalability has become an urgent problem. Social constructivism is a growing and graduallyimproving theory, the views such as the cooperative interaction, learning community andfocusing on situations have a guiding and referential significance to the training of pre-serviceteachers. Therefore, the study attempts to use the social constructivism as theoretical tool,focusing on the practical ability of pre-service teachers, to explore how to update and reformteacher’s training system in the current school education, in order to enhance the development ofpre-service teachers’practical ability and comprehensive quality.The first part is the study of theoretical basis. It generalizes the social constructivist theory,then introduces the origins and development of social constructivism, interprets the teachingideas and describes its key points and teaching patterns, so as to provide a theoretical basis toanalyze and solve the problems below.The second part is a summary of pre-service teachers’ practical ability. Firstly, it elaborateson the classification, characteristic and forming process of the pre-service teacher’s practicalability. In addition, it points out that teachers’ practical ability not only contains teachingdimension, but also include such as the moral character and personal quality, which is a processof constantly engaging in the community activities, reflecting on and reconstructing. Therefore, not only it indicates the large role that reflection plays in the process of pre-service teachers’training, but also points out the basic approach to the training of pre-srevice teachers’ practicalability.This study in the third chapter examines the current training of pre-service teachers’practical ability through interviews and literature, and analyzes the problems from theperspective of social constructivism. Many novice teachers and students were selected asinterview subjects, and the three most representative teachers were selected for detail interviews.The study summarizes the influence factors of current pre-service teachers’ practical ability, andanalyzes the present problems in the practical training of pre-service teachers based on socialconstructivism theory framework.The fourth chapter of this study bases on the perspective of social constructivism, putforward the strategy of pre-service teachers’ practical ability training, which contains curriculum,system, implement and teachers troop. Firstly, we should pay attention to teachers’ individualexperience and develop their teaching skills in the practical courses; Secondly, we can increasethe comprehensive curriculum to broaden their general knowledge; And then, governments havea duty to set up the system to guarantee the pre-service teachers’ practical ability training;Fourthly, it can establish archives and update the inspection appraisal system, and also exploreand break through the tutorial system; What’s more, it is necessary to establish practice bases, sothat we can accelerate the gradient development of pre-service teachers’ practical ability; At last,teachers should create learning communities and go through the cooperation of zone of proximaldevelopment, in order to cultivate reflective teachers.Finally, the research points out the creative process and the shortage of this study, and looksforward for further research in the future.