| 英文摘要 |
The Curriculum Guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education emphasize cultivating the core competencies of primary and secondary school students. How to cultivate the competencies of future teachers with competency-based teaching? The authors of this paper believe that practice-based teacher education programs act as bridges between the theory and practice so that students in teacher education programs have the competencies to adapt to current and future teaching challenges. This paper conducted literature review to discuss the meaning and content of practice-based teacher education and put forward four implications for the design and implementation of teacher education programs: 1. The earlier exposure to practice, the better teacher education is; 2. The core or high-leverage teaching practices should be identified; 3. It needs reflections and promoting understanding the theories in the course of practical actions; 4. The teacher education curriculum should align with practical teaching strategies. In contrast to the current teacher education system, the study proposed three suggestions as follows: 1.High-leverage practice will improve the competencies of teachers and students without increasing the number of subject credits and years of study; 2.Education courses should not be divided into educational foundations, educational methods and educational practice courses. The curriculum design shall be based on the professional quality guidelines of pre-service teachers; 3. The high-leverage or core teaching practices of teacher education should be fully discussed in response to national policies, social trends and students’ needs in Taiwan. |