After entering the 21st century, a series of standards have been developed to build a standards-based quality assurance system for teacher education in China. The building of quality assurance system for teacher education has made some achievements, but it also faces some problem. At present, the building of high-quality teacher education system has been determined as the most important task in the reform and development of teacher education in China. This requires us to improve the quality assurance system for high-quality teacher education on the basis of reflecting on the existing system building. Based on documentary analysis the paper examines the building process and compositions of the standards-based quality assurance system for teacher education in China, and analyzes the problems and challenges of the existing system and puts forward some suggestions on building a quality assurance system for teacher education based on development-oriented teacher professional standards.
Keyword(s) : quality assurance
The determinants of the quality of higher education of teacher professional training
There is a high demand for teacher vocational training in secondary vocational educational
institutions. The training of such teachers in post-secondary institutions needs to take into account
the factors (determinants) of its quality and the challenges facing modern educational practice.
Building on earlier work by Russian researchers, particular attention is paid to the ideas about the
quality determinism of higher professional and pedagogical education by integration processes in
the society. However, in the works reviewed there is no agreement of the quality determinants with
the tasks of vocational training teachers’ qualifications as well as with their solutions.
The article highlights the determinants of the quality of vocational training teachers’ qualifications
in higher education, based on the analysis of the actual tasks of vocational training teachers’
qualifications. The research used substantive and formalized approaches to investigate the content
and interrelation of the determinants of the quality of the higher professional and pedagogical
education, together with the actual tasks of preparation and their solutions. It shows the
interdependence not only of the tasks facing educational practice, but also their solutions. In order
to ensure the sustainable development of a society and the knowledge economy, decisions on the
implementation of standards and recommendations of quality assurance in the European Higher
Education Area, must take into account:
• the interdependence of the main spheres of society’s life,
• the integration of competence and cultural approaches in the qualifications of future teacher
vocational training,
• and the orientation of higher professional and pedagogical education.
This work has led to further detailed research in the context of the essence of higher professional and
pedagogical educational quality.