The Current Situation of Teacher Education in Chinese Application-Oriented Universities: Dilemma and Improvement Strategies

Teacher education is an important part of the construction of the teaching team, which plays a very valuable mediating role between teacher planning, qualification access, evaluation incentive and teacher quality. Teacher education in application-oriented universities is set to carry out planned and targeted training activities for teachers based on school development and goals of teaching team construction. In recent years, plenty of achievements have been made in application-oriented universities, but problems exist, too. Examples are as follows: a lack of specialized institutions for application-oriented teacher education; failure of training modes in satisfying young teachers’ development needs; failure to meet the diversified demand due to imbalance between training supply and demand ; not-targeted training content and difficult quality guarantee; poor training management and assessment mechanism, etc. All of these lead to dissatisfying training effect. The author believes that, to build the teachers team in application-oriented universities which can support the realization of education modernization in 2035, we should set up a teacher’s professional development center, pay attention to in-school training, and combine targeted recruitment with planed and classified teachers’ professional training