A Review of Professional Development School in the U.S:Chinese Researchers' Perspectives

As a practice model of US teacher education reform,Professional Development School(PDS) is becoming more and more influential,which indicates the trends of world teacher education reform.With further development of China teacher education,the research on this topic is increasing rapidly recently and they mainly fall into three categories: 1) PDS as a school form including its concept,effectiveness,problems,policies and so on;2) its impacts on US teacher education;3) lessons and experience to China.