On the Theoretical Construction and Practical Exploration of “U-G-S” Teacher Education Model

Abstract

It is the shared responsibility and mission of normal universities, local governments, secondary schools and primary schools to optimize teacher education model and improve teacher education quality. Northeast Normal University, on the basis of the practical experience of “Changbai Mountain Road” and the “Ivy League Project”1, has creatively proposed a new cooperative model named University-Government-School Model (U-G-S Model for short) which takes “cooperative development” as the guiding philosophy and the seeking for identical goals, responsibility and benefits sharing and resource complementarity as the development principle. And an innovative and cooperative teacher education community has been formed in the fields of talent training, scientific research, teacher training and resource construction by the three participants of the U-G-S Model. This model has solved such problems as the inefficient educational practice of normal university students and the hard teacher training of secondary and primary school teachers. It has been a connection between normal university education and elementary education, pre-service and post-service training of teachers, teaching and research, theory and practice to promote the development of education for our country in the new period.