Xiaojing Yan is a lecturer at Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China, and holds a PhD in Education from Monash University, Australia. She has published extensively on Chinese early career teachers’ competences and teacher standards. Her research interests are sociology of education, teacher education and rural education.

• 1. Introduction 2. The interrelationships among teacher competence, teacher standards and teacher professional learning 3. Early career teachers’ practice and their professional learning in the school 4. Qualitative constructivism with the case study 5. The trajectory of teacher competence in China 6. Challenges of early career teachers’ development of teacher competence 7. The professional learning path for early career teachers improving their competence 8. Advancing early career teachers' competence

Xiaojing Yan is a lecturer at Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China, and holds a PhD in Education from Monash University, Australia. She has published extensively on Chinese early career teachers’ competences and teacher standards. Her research interests are sociology of education, teacher education and rural education.

• 1. Introduction 2. The interrelationships among teacher competence, teacher standards and teacher professional learning 3. Early career teachers’ practice and their professional learning in the school 4. Qualitative constructivism with the case study 5. The trajectory of teacher competence in China 6. Challenges of early career teachers’ development of teacher competence 7. The professional learning path for early career teachers improving their competence 8. Advancing early career teachers' competence

Xiaojing Yan is a lecturer at Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China, and holds a PhD in Education from Monash University, Australia. She has published extensively on Chinese early career teachers’ competences and teacher standards. Her research interests are sociology of education, teacher education and rural education.

• 1. Introduction 2. The interrelationships among teacher competence, teacher standards and teacher professional learning 3. Early career teachers’ practice and their professional learning in the school 4. Qualitative constructivism with the case study 5. The trajectory of teacher competence in China 6. Challenges of early career teachers’ development of teacher competence 7. The professional learning path for early career teachers improving their competence 8. Advancing early career teachers' competence