ChatGPT Empowers Teacher Education Change: Advantages, Challenges, and responses

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jhet.202415307

Author(s)

Xiaojin Cong

Affiliation(s)

School of Teacher Education, Taishan University, Taian, Shandong, China

Abstract

The emergence of ChatGPT, an advanced artificial intelligence tool, has spawned a new pattern for teacher professional development. ChatGPT not only provides advantages and opportunities for teacher education, but also brings various risks and challenges. Teachers are the main body of teaching work, the arrival of ChatGPT will certainly have a certain impact on their professional development. This paper focuses on the three dimensions of teaching practice, learning evaluation and scientific research, which have the most profound impact on education technology, deeply analyzes the opportunities and challenges brought by ChatGPT to the reform of teacher education, proposes action research on effective teaching integration and exploration, moves toward the quality-oriented teaching evaluation, establishes academic ethics and accountability system and other coping strategies. It attempts to provide theoretical and practical reference for integrating artificial intelligence into the educational environment, improve teacher identity, enhance teacher professional development, boost the digital transformation of teacher education, and promote the intelligent technology reform of teaching practice.

Keywords

ChatGPT; Teacher Work; Teacher Literacy; Challenge; Transform

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