A Research Into The Problems, Countermeasures Of Teaching Practice In Higher Normal Colleges And Universites

The following points attribute to the raising of practical educational issues at normal universities: with the growing intensity of international competition, talents with creative spirit and practical ability become the main demand of future society; If teacher-training still remain unchanged, it will put our country in an inferior position in international competition; The reform of normal university system will produce a multi-scheme teacher-training pattern, only by developing the advantage of teacher-training can normal universities be in invincible position. However, within the curriculum structure at normal universities, the ratio of educational courses is too low, the curriculum structure for education specialty is neglected and the teaching method of three- level disciple is weak. The implementation of new curriculum at primary and middle schools requires teachers of good quality and heightens the requests fro practical skills of teachers, In essence, practical skills are the intrinsic demand roe teacher professions, however, due to the absence of practical education in the tradition of Chinese educational history, carrying through practical educational ideas is confronted with big difficulties.As an important form of practice, teaching practice plays a undoubtedly important role on the whole educational cause of normal college and universities, yet the real situation is that it has now being reduced into a confusing matter of an only namely form without any practical effect and seldom being insisted on. The theorists do not bother to study the teaching practice, and those existing ones have their own disadvantages of the theory being separated from practice, lacking whole planning and research depth and great gap of viewpoints.The reason why teaching practice is very important especially for the ideological and political education majors is that it lays a very high practical standard particularly on the teachers after the implementation of the new curriculum, thus making it more urgent for the ideological and political education which clearly falls behind in its reform to strengthen its practical teaching.The problems lie in teaching practice of ideological and political education majors of normal colleges and universities are various and the solutions should be systematic.The problems are the following:The form of taking school as the practice base makes it difficult for different departments to control and operate, and the primary and middle schools to stand, changeable teaching practice is vulnerable to short-term effects, granted teaching practice has quality problems, free and scattered ones lack administration.Making clear the main task of ideological and political education and the direction of teaching practice is the main premise of the whole matter, The concrete form of teaching practice is yet to be studied, but generally it should follow the unifying principles of taking concentrated teaching practice as a main stream while scattered one as subsidiary; teaching practice bases as main places while scattered freely as subsidiary; college-based training as a main method while primary and middle school training as subsidiary; planned teachingpractice as a main form while flexible one as subsidiary, and build up an assessment system; besides, pre-service education and post-service education must be unified to extend the teaching practice and to meet the demand of life education.The organizer of teaching practice normal colleges and universities haven't realizedthe significance of teaching practice with the administrative departments' insufficient support and fund, little guide, imperfect measures and inappropriate administrative systems with backward managing mode in the form of either unified management or different mode of every department, which leads to quite different quality of it.So the functions of teaching practice must be made clear through education. The administrative authorities should have correct concept for teaching practice resources, taking full...