The Importance Of Teacher Education In China

The extent of teacher training in the People 's Republic of China is wide-ranging. Numerically, instructors in China represent the biggest teaching system in the world. In 1998, there were 229 training organizations, at various levels, with 138,745 students doing majors in teaching. Today, this ever-expanding massive training system has barely met the demand for the number of teachers required to sustain the ever growing school system in terms of both quantity and quality. As of 2010, there were 10.6 million teachers in the Chinese school system, of which 5.6 million were primary school teachers, 3.5 million were middle-school instructors and 1.5 million taught high school. Though China has done a lot to upgrade their teacher training systems, …show more content…
It is generational and the function of teachers in China is central to the traditional style of the typical Chinese classroom. On the surface, one can get the idea that a teacher is before their class writing on the board and the students are actively paying attention to the instructor 's lesson without flaw. The students are silent and quite obediently recite the teacher 's words like a choir singing in perfect rhythmus tones and remain virtually silent throughout the teacher homily. The students pose no queries and the instructor rarely ask anyone to respond to a question. What is much more common is that all the students will typically answer questions all together (Zhou & Reed, 2005). Therefore, the purpose for this paper is to describe the expectations of teachers in the People 's Republic of China and to reveal the teacher 's role, position, remuneration and the changes that are taking place in education in China due to the transforming power of …show more content…
The Teacher Education Bureau is but one of the 23 government departments in the SEC and is directly accountable for devising strategy on teacher instruction and administering the development of the teacher education system. It also sets the system-wide objectives of teacher education, curriculum formation, staffing of novice teachers, and accreditation. The Teacher Education Bureau is also the governing body of six main normal universities in Beijing, East China, Central China, Northeast China, Southwest China, and Shanxi. The various provincial education commissions and education bureaus are in charge of teacher education, and they are expected to execute the policies formulated by the Beijing Central Government (Meng, Zhang & Lan,