Enlightenment for Local Comprehensive Universities from Teacher Education in the UK

Normal universities are faced with the problems of how to supply the society with more and more outstanding teachers in a brand-new situation.Most comprehensive universities,which have just gone through various kinds of mergence and reconstruction,attach little importance to teacher education.Therefore,normal schools from those universities find it hard to make their students qualified both theoretically and practically,which prevent them from performing their responsibilities successfully at the beginning of their career.The advanced experiences in teacher education in the UK,especially its characteristic feature—partnership,which gives full play to the advantages of both universities and primary and secondary schools,can lead to some enlightenment in training future teachers.While dependent on the academic strength of comprehensive universities,the normal school in those universities should clarify its goals and emphasis,balance theory and practice,strengthen the relationship between universities and primary and secondary schools to make continuous teacher education possible and make teaching practice the powerful means to help develop future teachers’ skills and qualifications,hence to improve teacher education in China.