Curriculum implementation competence is of great significance for professional kindergarten teachers, and contributes to the success of curricular reform and children’s development. This paper takes the four-year experience of an in-service teacher (for children aged 3-6) training program in a Chinese kindergarten as a case, and tries to explore and form a process model of collaborative innovation to enhance kindergarten teachers’ curriculum implementation competence. This model consists of the following six stages: the preparation stage, the initial perception stage, the training stage, the practice stage, the development of research ability stage and the evaluation and feedback stage.
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