| The cultivation of excellent teachers mainly depends on the strong and universal teacher education. Pre-service teacher education program prepare a successful teachers with professional knowledge,skills and cordiality.In our country pre-service teacher education mainly complete by the professional institutions or the teachers’professional training scheme.Its reform and development facing the challenge of teachers’ professional development,basic curriculum reform and multicultural education.There are also many problems in the process of operation,such as separation between learning courses and internship practice, single mode, old methods, and so on.When it comes to pre-service teacher education,The United States is one of the early started countries around the world.The federal government and state policy makers have actively design effective teacher education program.Universities carry out pre-service teacher education program based on different teacher education ideas and goals,focus on multicultural education background,diverse learners needs,integrate various modular courses,strengthen closely partner links between universities and elementary and secondary schools,make full use of the resources in and out of schools and communities,so develop many outstanding teachers effectively fulfill their duties.Universities has accumulated rich experience,provides pre-service teacher education in our country with the beneficial reference and enlightenment.Thingking about problems of pre-service teacher education in our country and the United States,this article select Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) as a case, on the basis of a large collection of data, using literature method,comparison method and case analysis method,comprehensive and detailed analysis the pre-service teacher education program provided by United States university.The first part points out that accompanyed with the theory of teacher professional development and the trend of teachers’education development,the pre-service teacher education programs of American university formed.Went through germination, generation,evolution,improvement and prosperous,formed different programs:four-year undergraduate program,five-year integration program and postgraduate program.The second part takes master program of Stanford university——Stanford Teacher Education Program (2013-2014school year) as an example,analysises the construction of STEP. Training teacher leaders serve for social equity and justice,developing professional educators to teach for diverse learners,set Curriculum&Instruction,Social&Psychological Foundations, Language&Literacy,Pedagogical Strategies,Practieum&Student Teaching as five modules course.Shares policy and financial support and other resources from the federal government, state of California, Stanford university graduate school of education and partner school.professoriats cooperate with primary and secondary school teachers to support teacher candidates for their professional preparation and development.The third part presents the process of STEP from preparement to implement and evaluation.Teacher candidates must meet certain professional and ability request, through the online application.then gain the permission of STEP,and receive support and guidance from partner schools and teachers by careful search and selection.The participant defines the main responsibility in different stages,according to the arrangement of curriculum and teaching practice,implement STEP Integration Plan,complete Independent Student Teaching in STEP.Finally according to Teacher Candidate Quarterly Assessment to evaluate teacher candidates’performance,establish Graduation Portfolio,STEP Conference,and share the achievements of teacher candidates’personal development.The fourth part points out that after continuous development and reform, implementation of STEP is successful.As report,most graduates undertake k-12teacher professional role,as a teacher,or as a leader,the commitment to social equity and justice comes true,promote the diversification of primary and secondary schools learners to improve the teaching quality.All of these embody STEP target focus on social equity and justice,root in the course of language and culture.practice throughout the program period,cooperation to provide practical guidance and feedback,assess the performance multivariate teaching and so on.The fifth part mainly analyzes the pre-service teacher education of our country and university of America specialization of common policy support project demand, requirement of education practice ability training for diverse learners and existed problems in the curriculum and practice of homogeneity,etc.Which can be used for reference to improve pre-service teacher education in our country:improve the teacher education certification system and management system,providing a rich variety of resources,curriculum theory and practice mixed,cultivating and promoting the development of teacher professional communities. |
