Abstract: Promoting quality professional development in teachers in a scientific and effective way is important to realize quality preschool education for Gold Apple Group. On this basis, we firstly introduced CBE competency-based education model into in-service teacher training, emphasizing practical skills and personalized learning. Currently, we have established the WAKE curriculum and pay more attention to the teacher's self-development and motivate teachers to put more passion on professional development.
The development of WAKE Professional Development Curriculum is as follows. At the first stage, we explored teachers’ demands for professional development (What). We provided on-demand training and customized training for more than 1,600 teachers through big data analysis. We conducted online and offline seminars, interviews, questionnaires and other different approaches to collect and learn the demands for professional development of teachers at different stages of development.
At the second stage, we provided alignment-training, such as growth classroom for teachers and teacher workshops. The teachers are engaged through diversified professional improvement methods, such as expert lectures, visit, participatory discussion, case study, practical operation.
With characteristics and Kindergarten-based training at the third stage as the core, the kindergarten at which the teachers work follows up their professional growth plan enhance guidance and planning of teaching and research for the kindergarten and personalized development for teachers. “Tutorial system” allows the characteristic famous teachers to help professional development of young teachers, and also trains their own comprehensive capacity, promoting development of professional career.
Enlightening self-learning is essential at the fourth stage. Self-learning facilitates sustainable development. For instance, characteristic famous teachers lead the development as tutors; providing booklist navigates self-learning; trying internet + mode and opening online courses and remote broadcast platform reduce space-time limitation, providing teachers more opportunities to study.
Keyword: Professional development of teachers; Self-development
