The Strategies and Hints of Multicultural Teacher Education in U.S.A.

The multicultural teacher education means a serial of reforms in the teacher education filed in U.S.A.in order to improve multicultural education capacities of pre-service and in-service teachers.Teacher education institutions in USA take two measures to do it.The first is to start multicultural education curriculum and design a teacher education program guided by the idea of multicultural education.The second is to carry out many ways,such as autobiography and reflection,community-based learning,and culturally sensitive teaching during the curriculum implementation to cultivate teachers′ multicultural educational capabilities.Their inspirations to our country′s teacher education in multi-ethnic areas include,valuing the particularity of teacher education in multi-ethnic areas,taking full use of and cultivating curriculum resources of multicultural teacher education,providing opportunities of transcultural experiences for teachers,and advocating self-reflections and inquiries.