Stages | Main tasks | Participants | Major activities | Carrier of achievements |
The preparation stage | · construction of operation mechanism | · management team · expert group · well-known principals and teachers) · teaching and research group · practice group · support group | · complete the operation system | · rules and regulations of operation mechanism |
The initial perception stage | · help teachers to improve curriculum beliefs and values | · expert group · teaching and research group · practice group | · re-understand the value of education (lectures) · learn curriculum knowledge (lectures, group discussions, survey) · deepen the understanding or domain pedagogical content knowledge (pck) (lectures, books guided reading, collective and group teaching and research activities) | · survey report of teachers’ curriculum beliefs and values |
The training stage | · preliminary formation of kindergarten teachers’ curriculum implementation competence | · expert group · well-known principals and teachers) · teaching and research group · practice group | · form kindergarten teachers’ curriculum implementation competence (problem-based learning, case study, observation, analysis, discussion, presentation, expert guided learning) | · teaching plans; observation records |
The practice stage | · form and improve teachers’ curriculum implementation competence | · expert group · well-known principals and teachers) · teaching and research group · practice group | · classroom practice (individual teaching preparation; classroom practice; self-reflection; group reflection; collective teaching and research activities; practice improvement) | · revised teaching plans; activity cases; improved teaching behavior |
The development of research ability stage | · improvement of research ability of curriculum implementation competence | · expert group · well-known principals and teachers) · teaching and research group · practice group | · research methods trainings · research group activities · apply research projects · publish research papers | · the framework system and implementation path of Life Education curriculum · approved research projects; · research papers |
The evaluation and feedback stage | · evaluation of the effect of the program | · management team · expert group · well-known principals and teachers) · teaching and research group · practice group · support group | · process evaluation (teaching behavior diagnosis; feedback; behavior improvement) · summative evaluation (operation system evaluation; feedback; improvement of system) | · evaluation reports · improved operation system |