my country will promote the reform of teacher qualifications for normal graduates
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 17 (Reporter Hu Hao) In order to promote more normal graduates to engage in education and increase employment, the State Council executive meeting held on the 17th decided to promote the reform of teacher qualification certification for normal graduates.
The meeting decided to promote the reform of exempting teacher qualifications for teacher training graduates on the basis of the implementation of the "first post and then verifying" the professional qualifications of teachers, and establish a system for teacher education institutions to assess the teaching ability of normal students. Accelerate the promotion of allowing graduates with a master's degree or above in education, and publicly funded normal students to be exempted from examinations to recognize teacher qualifications. Carry out the quality audit of teacher education colleges and universities. Teacher graduates who have passed the audit can be exempted from examinations to identify teacher qualifications, which facilitates the employment of normal graduates and improves the quality of the teaching team.
Normal school graduates are the main source of teachers in elementary and secondary schools. The quality of teacher-training majors directly determines the overall level of teachers in elementary and secondary schools and is a key factor affecting the quality of elementary and secondary education.
In recent years, my country's teacher education reform has made positive progress, providing a strong guarantee for the development of basic education and vocational education. The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of the Building of Teachers in the New Era" proposes to carry out teacher professional certification to ensure the quality of teacher training. In 2017, the Ministry of Education formally issued the "Implementation Measures for Normal Colleges and Universities Teacher Professional Certification (Interim)" to promote the rational positioning and characteristic development of relevant universities by constructing a standard system of teacher professional certification covering three horizontal categories and progressive three levels vertically , Continue to improve the quality of training professional teachers.
Experts believe that the reform of teacher qualifications for teacher education exemption from examinations will not lower the entry threshold and quality of teachers. On the contrary, it will promote teacher education institutions to pay attention to improving the quality of training, which is an opportunity for the reform of teacher education institutions.