Professional Development of Vocational Education Teachers in EU Countries:Dilemmas,Approaches and Enlightenments
Vocational education teachers are the key to building a high-quality vocational education system in EU countries and are at the core of priority development.The professional development of teach-ers in the era of Industry 4.0 is faced with many problems:unbalanced structure of vocational education teachers,lack of industry-education integration hinder teacher exchanges,and teachers have difficulty meeting the demands of digitalization and green transformation of education.To solve the difficulties,EU countries have proposed the following measures:to enhance the attractiveness of the vocational education teacher industry,continue to strengthen professional development,deepen the school-enterprise coopera-tion strategy,enhance the digital skills action,and provide a green skills development platform.These mea-sures provide a new direction for promoting the professional development of vocational education teachers in China,which should be based on system construction to ensure a good ecological environment for profes-sional development;To improve the quality of professional development with pre-service and post-service integrated professional development system;Take school-enterprise exchanges as the driving force to pro-mote the linkage of professional development;Update professional development skills with the goal of digi-tal+green skills twin transformation.
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