Analysis on the Curriculum Construction of Pre-Service Education for Primary School Teachers under the Background of Outstanding Teacher Training

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jhet.202515119

Author(s)

Zhiyuan Zhou*

Affiliation(s)

School of Education, Wuhan College of Arts and Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China *Corresponding Author.

Abstract

The reconfiguration of pre-service teacher education courses is an inevitable demand for fulfilling the national goal of cultivating high-quality primary school teachers. It is conducive to accelerating the transformation and development of pre-service education courses, enhancing teachers' professional quality, facilitating the implementation of teaching reforms, and fostering highly qualified future teachers. Through conducting investigations in normal universities of various levels and distributing relevant questionnaires to collect information, problems occurring in the process of teacher cultivation in normal universities are summarized, the causes of problems in course settings are analyzed. In response to the actual societal demand for high-quality teaching professionals, higher education institutions should commence from the requirements of society for outstanding teachers and undertake top-level design of the curriculum, thereby forming the target system for cultivating outstanding teachers. They should integrate the courses in accordance with the logic of knowledge and restructure the knowledge system of the courses. It is necessary to clarify the practical orientation of the course content and enrich the practical courses for the growth of outstanding teachers. Also, they should perfect the guarantee mechanism for curriculum reconfiguration to ensure the cultivation of future teachers with outstanding potential.

Keywords

Pre-Service Teacher Education; Curriculum; Excellent Teachers; Education Reform; Curriculum Optimization

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