School-based Teacher Development and Teacher Professional Learning Community Construction

Compared with traditional paradigm in teacher development-top-down development model,school-based teacher development stresses that teacher is the center of a reform,and that teacher development should be based on the circumstance and context which teachers work,and should be classroom-based and school-based.Teacher professional learning community focuses on contextualizing of teacher development.It stresses that sharing teachers' learning and practice through constructing professional learning community in a school shall improve teachers' competence and transform the school into a learning organization.On the platform of school's context,school-based teacher development will be consistent with teacher professional learning community.In the context of professional learning community of a school,through sharing leadership,collective learning and sharing practice,school-based system for teacher development will be constructed.