"Opinions on Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of Teachers' Team Construction in the New Era" is the first programmatic document specifically aimed at the construction of teachers' team issued by the CPC Central Committee since the founding of New China, which is of milestone significance. As mentioned above, the overall weakening of teacher education in the process of normal university integration has become the biggest dilemma facing the cultivation of high-quality teachers. Only by striving to build and follow the "four in one" model with normal colleges as the main body, normal universities as the leading force, local normal colleges as the main force and teacher training as the main business, and giving full play to the main role of normal colleges in strengthening teachers and rejuvenating the country, can we really get out of the predicament and accelerate the pace of teacher education revitalization.
The first is to optimize the teacher education structure system with normal universities as the main body. According to the idea of reasonable structure, prominent subject and clear function, optimize the structure system of teacher education. The state should not only introduce policies to strictly control the official renaming of normal universities; It is even more necessary to strengthen the discipline construction of teacher education by greatly increasing funding and strengthening policy inclination.
The second is to take normal university as the leading factor to lead the overall improvement of teacher education. According to the quality and characteristics of running a school, the balanced regional development, the total educational population and other factors, the first-class normal university and the first-class normal professional construction university are selected according to the principle of one province and one school. According to the policy standard of "double-first-class" construction of colleges and universities, and on the principle of joint construction by ministries and provinces, we will allocate resources in proportion to build other short-listed colleges and universities, so as to make them become first-class normal universities with "regional characteristics and first-class China" or first-class normal universities, and give full play to their benchmarking and leading role in domestic teacher education.
Third, take normal colleges as the main force to lay a solid foundation for the development of teacher education. Local normal colleges are developing vigorously, and teacher education is developing vigorously; If local normal colleges are strong, normal education will be strong. Based on this, the education administrative department should not only strictly control the renaming of local normal colleges, but also guide and encourage them to adhere to and uphold the connotation of teacher education; Provincial finance should shoulder the main responsibility of promoting the development of local normal colleges, increase funding and policy support; Further clarify the responsibility and mission of local normal colleges in the training of teachers in township compulsory education schools and kindergartens.
Fourth, focusing on teacher training will help highlight the characteristics of teacher education. Government departments should guide normal universities to improve the proportion of normal majors and normal students through development planning, policy regulation and resource inclination, and ensure the main position of teacher training; Through early batch admission and secondary selection after admission, we will attract outstanding young people who are willing to teach, suitable for teaching and good at teaching to choose normal colleges and majors; Implement the free education system for normal students in local normal universities, especially local normal universities; As soon as possible, teachers' colleges and professional certification will be fully implemented to ensure the training of teachers with distinctive characteristics and high quality.
The participation of high-level non-normal colleges in teacher education can not only increase the supply of high-quality teacher education, but also form a catfish effect by introducing external competition, thus enhancing the vitality of the whole normal education system. In the new era, high-level non-normal colleges and universities urgently need to take the "three changes" as the starting point, effectively solve the difficulties faced by education colleges or educational science research institutes, and effectively improve teachers' participation in education.
In terms of personnel training, it is necessary to realize the transformation from focusing on academic talents to focusing on the training of primary and secondary school teachers. At present, the colleges of education of high-level non-normal universities in China mainly pursue the cultivation of high-level academic talents in educational disciplines or university management positions, but lack the motivation to train primary and secondary school teachers. Therefore, the state should take practical measures to improve the professional status of primary and secondary school teachers and make them the envy of society.
In scientific research, it is necessary to realize the transformation from focusing on the discipline construction of higher education to focusing on the theory of basic education. Most of the colleges of education or institutes of educational science in high-level non-normal universities in China are developed from institutes of higher education. After the establishment of the college, the strategy of following up and strengthening the discipline construction of higher education was basically adopted to win the right to speak, but there was a general lack of research interest in basic education. Therefore, high-level universities participating in teacher education should take practical measures to streamline and build teams around research fields or disciplines such as teacher pedagogy, educational leadership and management, school curriculum and teaching, student development and psychology, and vocational and technical education.
In terms of service orientation, it has realized the transformation from strategic decision-making service of higher education to teacher education practice. For a long time, the colleges of education or research institutes of educational science in high-level non-normal universities mainly serve the purpose of higher education decision-making or college strategy. In order to effectively improve the participation effect, high-level non-normal colleges should strive to build a service system centered on the cultivation of high-quality compound normal students, innovative educators, the construction of high-quality teacher education disciplines and the all-round consultation of teacher education, so as to realize the service-oriented transformation of teacher education practice.