Education Science ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 23-31.

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On Teacher Education Integration Index’s Connotation,Framework and Monitoring

Baoxin Long, Weixin Dai, Dan Liu   

  1. School of Education, Shaanxi Normal University,Xi’an Shaanxi 710062, China
  • Received:2019-05-18 Online:2019-07-15 Published:2019-12-18

Abstract:

Teacher Education Integration Index(TEi) is a comprehensive index that represents a teacher education organization’s status and capacity in providing excellent teacher training service for the society and is made up of three levels, that is, state level, potential level, and capacity level. TEi means the share of teacher education in a teacher education organization, construction status of teacher education capacity and trend of teacher education scale and quality provided by the organization in a period. According to the open web data, the team carried out the research of twenty nine sample teacher education organizations in our China and did a quantitative statistical analysis of TEi. The result indicates that the main body of teacher education organizations still are subordinate and provincial normal universities and comprehensive universities are at the edge of teacher education integration. In the future, the teacher education integration of our country should stress three points, which are implementing preferential policies for teacher education, intensifying supporting for provincial normal university and stimulating the enthusiasm of comprehensive universities in teacher education.

Key words: teacher education integration, teacher education organization, teacher training