Guiding Ideology:
Overseas training of teachers and managerial staff members intends to face the development of globalization, train and bring up high-quality teachers’ camp, promote language proficiency and teaching method of English teachers as well as the teaching management ability. The life abroad experience and culture investigation will deepen the teachers’ and managerial staffs’ understanding of the society, history and cultural background, etc. of Western countries and lead to new breakthroughs in educational concepts, professional knowledge, teaching skills and comprehensive management ability.
Training Contents:
- Education policy, practice and development trends of American primary and secondary schools;
- Comparison of Chinese and American classroom teaching and teaching methods of language teachers;
- Planning and skills of foreign teachers;
- Primary and secondary organizational form and curriculum provision of classroom teaching;
- Recognition and training of backbone teachers;
- Evaluation criterion and system of outstanding primary and secondary teachers;
- Seminars with American teachers;
The contents mainly focus on training comprehensive ability of the backbone English teachers, improving and increasing their teaching modes and methods, which help them understand the development of language and the teaching trend in many aspects, allows the participants to question and discuss with each other and extends the training to every aspect of teaching.
Training Plan:
- The training program will last for 3 years.
| Training Contents |
Training Focus |
Training Period |
Remarks |
Intensive English courses before going abroad |
Vocabulary, listening, spoken language |
Two 3-week |
Participants must pass the selective examination |
Overseas Training |
Teaching method, field teaching |
12 weeks |
 English should be strengthened to reach the standard before going abroad |
Optimization of the teaching |
Follow-up evaluation of overseas training, Assessment of the result of the teaching methods, improvement in teaching abilities |
Lasting for 18 months |
Chinese and foreign experts will conduct a joint assessment and arrange the one-to-one counsel with records |
It is suggested that the training be arranged during summer and winter vacations, which will not only achieve the training purpose, but also avoid disturbance to the manpower plan of the school. According to the length of training period, intensive teaching curriculum, teaching practice and theory application will be arranged as well as the cultural experience, humanistic environment investigation activities. After the short-term training, teachers will learn and understand advanced teaching method overseas, improving teaching quality and comprehensive ability of the teachers. The multi-channel and omni-directional training program combines small-class face-to-face teaching, discussions and teaching observation. |
