任课教师：廖伟

 

课程简介：

 

This course is one of the “cores” (i.e., required) courses for international students majored in the Ph.D. program of Teacher Education Policy and Practice at the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. It also welcomes domestic and international Ph.D. students who are interested in teacher education related issues to register.

 

The course will lead students to realize three learning objectives: 1. engaging with the existing knowledge base, current issues, and future directions of teacher professional development in global contexts; 2. constructing their own knowledge system about teacher professional development; 3. improving their scholarly competencies as a future professional in teacher education, including critical thinking, academic reading and writing, and communicative and collaborative skills. The contents of the source include three cumulative sections. In Section 1, students will explore theoretical underpinnings of teacher learning and development. In section 2, students will examine pre-service teachers’ learning and development. In section 3, students will track down in-service teachers’ continuing learning and development. Students in this course will have opportunities to engage with the instructor, the contents, and fellow students through various forms of learning activities, such as mini-lectures, round-table discussions, small-group tasks, and a problem-based inquiry project that will facilitate students’ applications of newly acquired knowledge and skills in this course to address a practical problem in teacher education that they select according to their own interests at the beginning of the course. The instructor may also launch a collaborative writing for publishing project, depending on the specific design of the course for a certain semester and the interest and availability of both the instructor and the students.