Abstract: James Bryant Conant’s thought on teacher education curriculum reflects the world’s trend of curriculum reform of teacher education. Conant not only strengthened the technicality of teacher education, but also highlighted the development of education major. He proposed to better teaching practice of future teachers through the close cooperation among universities and primary and middle schools. Specifically, he put forward the outstanding practice guiding scheme “Clinical Professor of Education”. Furthermore, he also advocated education practice as one of the important criteria to verify whether a teacher is qualified. This point of view has connected education learning and education practicing closely. He believed the teacher who takes charge of education practice must be a professor and master in education major theories and elementary and secondary school teaching practice. Clinical Professor of Education is his arrangement toward pedagogy after he negated some of pedagogy curriculums, and this is also the breakthrough of traditional teaching model.

Key words: Conant James Bryant, essentialism, teacher education curriculum, clinical professor of education