Research On The Core Skills Model And Pre-service Training Strategy Of IT Teachers

In 2022,with the introduction of curriculum standards for IT subjects,it not only makes the IT curriculum enter a brand new stage of development,but also brings unprecedented challenges to IT teachers.How to train IT teachers in colleges and universities to adapt to the latest curriculum standards has become an important issue.At the same time,the development of IT teachers’ core skills is the demand for professional development of IT teachers in China.Therefore,it is very urgent to study and construct a model of IT teachers’ core skills to meet the real teaching needs in China.First,the literature on IT core skills at home and abroad was sorted out using the literature research method,and the concept of IT teacher core skills was clarified: the key knowledge,ability and attitudes necessary for IT education staff to be able to teach the IT curriculum at the compulsory education level.The theoretical model of IT teacher core skills was also constructed by extracting its elements from existing typi cal teacher core skills models and integrating the 2022 edition of compulsory education IT subject curriculum standards and IT subject teaching concepts.Second,a questionnaire was prepared based on the constructed theoretical model and formally distribute d to a teacher training university in S province using the questionnaire survey method.The analysis of structural equation modeling(SEM)yielded an excellent fit of the model,indicating that the model is a scientific and reliable one.Finally,the results of the study showed that the core skills of IT teachers had three primary indicators of subject matter skills,teaching skills,and professional skills,and subject matter skills included four secondary indicators of IT subject knowledge,education and teaching knowledge,interdisciplinary knowledge,and practical knowledge;teaching skills included IT teaching design ability,IT teaching implementation ability,IT classroom management ability,IT curriculum development ability.Teaching skills includes eight secondary indicators: IT teaching design ability,IT teaching implementation ability,IT classroom management ability,IT curriculum development ability,IT teaching evaluation ability,IT and discipline integration ability,innovation development and independent control ability,and teaching and research ability;professional skills includes two secondary indicators: education attitude and teachers’ professional ethics.Among the three primary indicators,IT subject skill is the most important to the core skills of IT teachers,followed by IT professional skills and IT teaching skills.For the 14 secondary indicators,the most important one is teaching design ability,followed by classroom management ability,education and teaching knowledge,teacher ethics,teaching and research ability,subject knowledge,innovation development and autonomous control ability,teaching implementation ability,practice knowledge,interdisciplinary knowledge,curriculum development competencies,educational attitudes,teaching evaluation competencies,and information technology and subject integration competencies.Based on the results of the study,a research proposal for training preparatory teachers of information technology in colleges and universities is proposed in conjunction with the talent training program of computer science and technology majors and educational technology majors in a teacher training university in S province: first,to clarify the training objectives and shape IT teachers.Second,optimize the curriculum of colleges and universities to improve the disciplinary literacy of teacher-training students: take teacher education as the core and reasonably construct the teacher education curriculum system;take the development concept as the leader and optimize the disciplinary knowledge system;take the practical application and interdiscipl inary theme to cultivate comprehensive teachers.Third,optimize the teaching methods in colleges and universities to enhance teacher education students’ teaching literacy:rationalize teaching methods oriented to innovation and autonomy and controllabilit y;cultivate teaching design ability and resource development ability with practical training;cultivate classroom management ability and teaching implementation ability with educational internship;cultivate teaching research ability and teaching evaluati on ability with educational research;cultivate information technology and subject integration ability with educational internship;reasonably construct The evaluation system is reasonably constructed to standardize the assessment mechanism of teacher-training students.Fourth,to establish the power of role models and enhance the professionalism of teacher-training students: on the one hand,to lead by typical deeds to enhance the sense of professional identity of teacher-training students,and on the other hand,to establish the sense of teaching achievement of teacher-training students by moral practice.