What is normal professional certification?

A: The certification of teachers' profession is an external evaluation process carried out by a special educational evaluation and certification institution according to the certification standards, aiming at proving whether the profession can meet the established quality standards of personnel training in the current and foreseeable period.

The core of certification is to ensure that the knowledge, ability and quality of normal students meet the standard requirements when they graduate. The purpose is to promote teachers' major to pay attention to connotation construction, to cultivate the ability of normal students, to reform the training system and mechanism, to establish an output-based quality assurance mechanism and quality culture, and to continuously improve the training ability and quality of professional talents.

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What is the basic idea of teacher professional certification?

A: The concept of teacher training professional certification is "student-centered, output-oriented, and continuous improvement", which is the action guide of teacher training professional certification and runs through the whole process of teacher training professional certification.

(1) Student-centered (SC): It emphasizes the transformation from the traditional mode centered on "teaching" to the new mode centered on "learning", requiring normal students to follow the growth law, allocate educational resources and arrange teaching activities with learning effect and personal development as the center, and take the satisfaction of normal students and employers as an important basis for evaluating the training quality of normal professional talents.

(2) Results-based education (OBE): Focus on what normal students have learned and what they can do after education, emphasize the clear learning output standards, meet social needs, take the learning effect of normal students as the guidance, control the core competence and quality requirements of graduates, reverse design the curriculum system and teaching links, allocate teachers and resources, and evaluate the training quality of normal professionals.

(3) Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), which tracks and evaluates the teaching of teachers' majors in all directions and in the whole process around the quality requirements of normal students' core competence, and applies the evaluation results to teaching improvement, forming a closed loop of "evaluation-feedback-improvement", establishing a quality assurance mechanism for continuous improvement, pursuing excellent quality culture, and promoting the continuous improvement of the training ability and quality of teachers' professionals.

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What are the basic principles of teacher training professional certification?

A: Teachers' professional certification emphasizes the principles of unified system, coordination between provinces and ministries, responsibility of colleges and universities and multi-dimensional evaluation.

(1) unified system principle: issue national certification standards, implement overall planning, identify institutional qualifications, standardize certification procedures, strictly review conclusions, and build a unified certification system to ensure the standardization of certification processes and the consistency of certification conclusions.

(II) Principle of coordination between provinces and ministries: The Ministry of Education and provincial education administrative departments should strengthen overall coordination, give full play to the role of specialized education evaluation institutions, and form a coordination mechanism with overall design, effective connection, clear division of labor and implementation in batches to ensure the orderly development of teachers' professional accreditation.

(3) The principle of university's main responsibility: clarify the main responsibility of university's professional construction, guide universities to actively carry out professional self-evaluation, promote the establishment of a mechanism for continuous improvement of professional quality, improve the internal quality assurance system, and promote the improvement of teachers' professional training quality.

(4) Multi-dimensional evaluation principle: The professional teaching quality is monitored and evaluated in a multi-dimensional and multi-perspective way by combining normal monitoring with periodic certification, online monitoring with entrance examination, quantitative analysis with qualitative judgment, and school certification with expert verification.