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Teaching competence is a reflection of a teacher's level of teaching and is at the core of his or her professional development. The cultivation of teaching ability is a cross-cutting issue of teacher training and education and teaching training. Educational practice courses in colleges and universities are important carriers of pedagogical nature, and have a direct practical orientation compared with educational theory courses such as pedagogy and psychology. By reasonably choosing the content and organization of educational practice courses, it helps to promote the development of teacher trainees' teaching competence, thus enhancing the starting point of teacher trainees' teaching work after joining the profession, and promoting the formation of teacher trainees' awareness and ability of independent professional development. Based on the perspective of the development of teaching competence, this study examines the theoretical basis for the design of educational practice courses, course objectives, course content, organization and implementation, and evaluation from the perspective of the current situation of teacher education practice courses and the generation of teaching competence of teacher trainees under the cultivation of existing educational practice courses. Based on a review of the literature, this study proposes that teaching competence refers to the ability of teachers to fully explore and utilize the educational factors embedded in the elements of teaching based on their personal experience, knowledge and educational and pedagogical theories, through specific teaching design, implementation, reflection and feedback activities. Educational practice programs are the sum of all activities organized and implemented by teacher training colleges that contribute to the development and improvement of individual teacher trainees' teaching competence. Teaching design skills training includes the study of subject curriculum standards, the study of teaching materials, the study of curriculum reform concepts, the training of board design skills, and the training of teaching media design. Teaching practice skills training includes motivation training, introduction training, narration and demonstration training, questioning training, feedback training, reinforcement training and emergency handling training. Incident handling skills training and other seven aspects. Based on the understanding of the value positioning of the educational practice course in the cultivation of teaching ability of teacher trainees, this is an active course.
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