The Strengthening of Teacher Training Cannot Be Limited to Discussing"Teacher Training"Simply As It Stands
In the history of more than one hundred years of China's teacher education,the importance of either teacher training or academicality is always an incomprehensible real question,both in theory and in practice.It is the duty of teacher-training colleges or universities to strengthen teacher training,but for a long time,many people have always limited their thinking to the discussion of"teacher training"simply as it stands;specifically,they merely limit teacher training to the discipline of education and related activities,and think that it has nothing to do with academicality,and they even regard academicality as the opposite.This closed sort of teacher training is rational to a certain extent,but it is too narrow and single-sided.With the changed understanding of individuals'key competencies and the gradual establishment of the goals of modern education,teachers'professional development begins to shift its focus,and requires teachers to have comprehensive,open,profound and modern competencies.Therefore,the traditional teacher training can no longer fully meet the requirements of modern teacher education.As far as modern teacher education is concerned,we need to strengthen teacher education by not only discussing"teacher training"as it stands but also talking about it from the perspective of academicality.To this end,teacher-training colleges or universities need to abandon the binary thinking over teacher training and academicality,break the barriers between the two,regard academicality as an important basis for teacher training,attach importance to the teacher-training value contained in academicality,use academicality to enrich,expand and deepen teacher training,and build a more inclusive teacher training.