Abstract
In China, the main goal of basic education curriculum reform is to develop students' key competencies. The physics teaching directed by key competencies would not only aim at the memory and reappearance of physics knowledge but also the application of physics knowledge and methods. As teachers who guide students' learning and implement teaching activities, the improvement and development of their key competencies plays an important role in the development of students. The key competencies of physics teachers consist of physics literacy, education and teaching literacy, scientific literacy, humanistic literacy, information literacy, and life-long learning ability.
Highlights
Key Competencies play a basic role as the first guidelines for educators in handling an increasingly diverse and interconnected surrounding world and could be broadened to formulate a kind of “statements of action” (Dębowska & Greczyło, 2017)
Key competencies education reform has been a topic of multiple international organizations, countries and areas for the past few decades, and it even has been a key point of some countries and areas to undertake education reform and curriculum reform
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is the first international organization to carry out research on Key Competencies, and the main reason for the proposal of the key competency is to tackle and solve the following problems: what kinds of abilities that people should have for better living in future society; what abilities people need to have when looking for a job and to be competent for the requirements of the job and what qualities people need to improve to keep up with changing technology
Summary
Key Competencies play a basic role as the first guidelines for educators in handling an increasingly diverse and interconnected surrounding world and could be broadened to formulate a kind of “statements of action” (Dębowska & Greczyło, 2017). The key competencies propose a new requirement for the growth of students, and there is change in the professional literacy of teachers in the community. The educational concept, professional knowledge and teaching technology teachers should have should be an all-around improvement strategy to satisfy the diversified demand of students in the time of education reform. As students‟ learning guides, their own professional growth implementers, and curriculum and teaching practice researchers and reflectors, teachers‟ key competencies promotion and development mean so much to the all-round development of students (Pingxia, 2018). Based on Guangming Wang et al (Guangming, Qianping, Yongjian, & Libao, 2019), the key competencies of teachers should include moral cultivation, educational spirit, and cultural cultivation, and the core ability of teachers should be contained in their education and teaching ability, learning and innovation ability, communication and cooperation ability. Based on the key competencies theory and the key competency framework of physics, we clarify the key competencies structure that middle school physics teachers should have from the perspective of teacher professional development
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