Connotation and Implementation of Shadow Learning for Primary and Secondary School Teachers

Key words: 
• primary and secondary teachers；teacher learning；“Shadow to learning”；“Shadow train-ing”；“Shadow schoolmaster”

Abstract: To match the transition from “professional development”to “professional learning”and from training to learning,“shadow training”should also shift to “shadow learning”.Teacher learning is au-tonomous,empirical,situational and continuous.Its aim is to promote students??effective learning. Teachers??“shadow learning”serves for their personal development and for the valid study of children. With the aim of constructing knowledge,shadow learning applies the integrated knowledge from the real life experience to involve interactive,reflective,long-term and continuous self-guided learning in a multi-subjective learning community.It is self-organized with the help of shadow schools,group of mentors and learner community.In application,measures should be taken to establish the mechanism of teacher shadow learning and to improve the strategy of “principal shadowing”and the “prentice-learning-from-master”model.