Rethinking Teachers' Professional Competence for Personalized Teaching: Based on the Analysis of Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Teaching of the United States

In pursuit of excellence and equity in education, every student should access to quality and appropriate education. In 2015, America developed Teacher Competence Framework for Personalized Education. This Framework adheres to the principle of learner-centeredness, and focuses on improving teachers' competences, with cognitive, introspective, interpersonal and pedagogical domains as the main dimensions, and provides a comprehensive explanation on teachers' competencies for personalized teaching. It not only promotes the index of high-level teaching competencies in each field, but also indicates the specific ways to develop teaching competencies to achieve this index. It thus can be seen as a complete and operable framework for teachers' competencies. Through a detailed study of this Framework, this paper aims to clarify teachers' competencies required for personalized teaching, which will facilitate the implementation and development of personalized teaching in China.