On Innovation of Teacher Education Practice Model from the View of Service-Learning

There are major problems in "education practice" of China's normal universities: participants can't understand sufficiently the content and purpose of education practice; education practice schools are lack of motivation; and the university curriculums are not consistent with education practice and education practice process is to be improved. In order to improve the practical effect and promote the practice of normal university education reform, this article introduces service-learning theory which has been applied in the United States successfully, and combines it with China's teacher education practice characteristics and proposes a new four-in-one model of education practice (PCWP), that is, establishing the diversified purposes of service-learning (Purpose), stressing courses of teaching skills to carry out the "professional services, service-learning courses"(Courses), encouraging the teacher students to full-time practice and teachers in-service to learn at off-site ways (Ways), and following the two iterative process - learning - service (actions) - reflection" (Process). It is thus supposed to be of significant meaning for the model innovation of practice of teacher education. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Harbin University of Science and Technology.