Keywords
Role orientation
Teacher professional development
Countermeasure research
Submitted : 2025-01-18
Accepted : 2025-02-02
Published : 2025-02-17
Abstract
With the rapid development of higher education, teacher professional development has become a key factor in improving education quality. Over the past decade, China’s university teachers’ development center in the promotion of teacher professional development has achieved a certain result, but there are still problems such as the positioning is not clear, the service system is not perfect, the professional level is not high, the service effect is not obvious. This study takes 15 colleges and universities in China as examples, uses questionnaires and interviews to carry out investigation and research, and puts forward countermeasures and suggestions on strengthening the teacher development center to clarify its functional positioning, improve its organizational structure, strengthen resource construction, and establish an evaluation mechanism.
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