A Study Of School-based In-service Teacher Training

It is an internationally common tendency to attach great importance to school-based in-service teacher training in enforcing school advertisement and promoting school reform. In our country, school-based in-service teacher training was started in 1990's and gradually formed in the process of carrying out "the Eighth Five-Year Plan" concerning teacher training. As a school-based teacher professional development model, school-based in-service teacher training has exhibited a great number of advantages and begun to become one of the important channels of teachers' continuing education.The school-based in-service teacher training is a problem-centered activity in continuing education which is based on the needs of the relevant school and teachers, and which fully utilizes various kinds of training resources inside and outside the school including the guidance and cooperation of people and organization outside the school. It is carried out independently in educational activities and educational scientific research, in order to form school's characteristics and promote sustainable teachers' professional development. It is not only an effective way to form school's characteristics but also an important measure to promote teachers' professional development.On the basis of literature review and on-the-spot investigation, the study analyses the background of school-based in-service teacher training and puts forward a theoretical framework of this kind of training . Practical models of school-based in-service teacher training is constructed for middle and primary schools . Suggestions on its operating mechanism are also made.The purpose of this study is to enrich the theory of school-based in-service teacher training and to offer effective guidance to the practice in middle and primary schools.