Advanced Training Program on the Teacher Education Program Design in the Universities(Colleges)
Background
With an emerging tendency of universitization and the increasing institutional
transition of teacher education in China, the universities (and comprehensive
colleges) begin to play more and more roles in educating teachers. How to
set up teacher education programs in universities is an urgent issue to solve
for the leaders of universities and officials in charge of the teacher education.
In the developed countries especially in North America in the 20th century,
there were institutional transformations through different approaches. The
approaches included the evolution of teacher colleges to state universities?
schools of education, the transferring of universities? departments of education
to schools of education, and the establishment of schools of education or
graduate schools of education at universities. Teacher education programs
and models were formed gradually during the institutional transformation.
Based on the experience of developed countries, Center for Teacher Education
Research of Beijing Normal University, Key Research Institute of Humanities
and Social Sciences in Universities, develops an advanced training program
on how to design teacher education programs as leaders in the universities
and colleges. Goals of the training program
The training program focuses on helping the universities? leaders: improve
their abilities to design teacher education programs which are adapted to
their specific context; understand the new ideas of teacher education; learn
the knowledge of designing teacher education program; change and form the
new conceptions of teacher education, and apply the new conceptions in the
program design.
The issues of teacher education program involve the admission and selection
of prospective teachers, the models and the curriculum of teacher education,
the partnership relations between universities and schools (professional development
schools), the relations between the academic credential and teacher certification,
the accreditation and evaluation of teacher education programs and institutions,
the integration of resource of teacher education within the universities.
This training program is planning to help the universities? leaders with better
understanding of the above issues.
Topics of the training
This training program derives from the question of how to design the teacher
education programs effectively during the period of institutional transformation
in China. The topics of the program are involved: The approaches and effects
of teacher education reforms in the world;
The admission and selection of prospective teachers;
The development of teacher education models;
The teacher education curriculum and the instruction;
The reflective teachers and the action research;
The establishment and the management of professional development schools;
Teacher examination and the certification system;
The integration of resource of teacher education with the universities;
Professional standards for teachers and teacher quality, and
The accreditation and evaluation of teacher education institutions.
The topics on which we would be willing to present are as follows（以下是专家建议）
>> * What is the knowledge base of teacher education?
>> * Teacher education curriculum
>> * How to design a teacher education program in a university
>> * How to build a partnership between the university and the schools
>> * Linkage of the teacher education program to licensure and certification
>> * Trends in North American teacher education
>> * Teacher standards
>> * Multidisciplinary research on teacher education
>>These topics could of course be combined in a smaller number of sessions.The
areas in which we would especially like to gain information include:
>> * Current ideas and practices in teacher education in China
>> * Proposed directions for teacher education
>> * Opportunities for cooperation with schools in teacher education
>>(including selection of supervising teachers)
>> * Current trends in schooling
>> * Content knowledge preparation for elementary school teachers
>> * University role in professional development during the first years
of teaching (induction)
Keynote speakers
We are honored to invite the well-known professors in the field of teacher
education to give lectures on the above topics. They are:
Prof. Clive Beck, OISE, University of Toronto
Prof. Ken Zeichner, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Prof. Lin Goodwin, Teachers College, Columbia University
Prof. Clare Kosnik, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Prof. Robert Folden, College of Education, Michigan State University
The schedule
Nov. 27, 2005 Registration
Nov.28-Dec.1 , Lectures
Call for registration
Sept. 20. 2005 ~ Nov. 15. 2005
All correspondences should be addressed to:
Prof. Shi Kecan, Prof. Zhou Jun
School of Education, Beijing Normal University,
Beijing, China.
Postal code: 100875
Email: bnuyanxiu@126.com