Construction and application of teacher professional standards and curriculum baseline for preservice teacher education

Based on the amendment of the Teacher Education Act 2017, this study determined professional standards for teachers and a curriculum baseline for preservice teacher education. Additionally, it provides the principles for designing teacher education curriculum through literature and document analysis, focus meetings, and keyword extraction. This study proposed 5 professional standards for teachers and 10 indicators and curriculum baselines with categories, credits framework, core curriculum, and conditions. Moreover, suggestions were presented for designing teacher education curriculum, such as utilizing the concept of teacher education to direct the following: curriculum designing, correspondence of the core curriculum toward modularization, practice designs from the perspective of teaching students’ learning, assessment methods and tools to evaluate teaching students’ performance, and systemic design of teacher education curriculum.