Institute-school partnership in pre-service and in-service initial teacher education: Issues and challenges

Kwok Sang SO, Yee Fan Sylvia TANG, Ping Ho WONG

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Abstract

From the perspective of a teacher education institution, the most important partner to work together is certainly the school itself. In fact, the partnership between tertiary and schools has received considerable attentions from teacher educators and policy makers since the late 80s. In Hong Kong, recent developments in teacher education programmes have also placed increasing emphasis on establishing links with the school sectors. This paper reports a pilot study of the Honorary teaching Adviser (HTA) Scheme, which seeks to involve school teachers to support the professional development of participants on pre-service and in-service initial teacher education programmes for cultural and technology subject teachers. The research aims to compare, between pre-service and in-service initial teacher education, the supporting strategies adopted by the HTA to facilitate student teachers' professional learning and the mode of team teaching and professional dialogues engaged in by the student teachers and the HTA. Views of the stakeholders including school principals/school co-ordinators, Institute supervisors and Honorary Teaching Advisers towards the partnership are solicited. Finally, issues and challenges in the HTA Scheme of pre-service and in-service initial teacher education programmes are identified for future implementation.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2000
EventAustralian Association for Research in Education Conference (AARE) 2000 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 04 Dec 200007 Dec 2000

Conference

ConferenceAustralian Association for Research in Education Conference (AARE) 2000
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period04/12/0007/12/00

Citation

So, K. S., Tang, Y. F. S., & Wong, P. H. (2000, December). Institute-school partnership in pre-service and in-service initial teacher education: Issues and challenges. Paper presented Australian Association for Research in Education 2000, Sydney, New South Wales.

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