Middle School Teachers' Existence Conditions And Its Improving Strategies

Teachers are the performers of education and teaching. Various educational reforms and policies are fulfilled by teachers. Teachers exert direct influence on the students and they determine the development of the students and even the whole educational causes. Therefore the occurrence and hindrances of educational problems are related to the existing state of the teachers'occupational predicaments and the solutions to them should be based on the improvement of the teachers'existing conditions. The article was based on the teachers in two middle schools (One is a junior and the other is a senior) in Shenzhen and probed into four aspects: the teachers'mental and physical state, their living conditions, occupational development and spiritual world. The study presented the true existing state of middle school teachers and proposed some assumptions, intended to surpass the previous styles of researches which were confined to theoretical arguments and emotional appeals.Chapter 1 is the theoretical interpretations of"existing state", which can be illustrated from its basic connotations, basic structures and philosophical basis.Chapter 2 is the study design, which can be illustrated from thinking, method, object, feasibility, creditability and validity. Chapter 3 to Chapter 6 are the main body, which can be illustrated from theory, actuality and reason, focusing on"mental and physical state","living conditions","occupational development"and"spiritual world".For the first aspect, the dissertation points the actuality of mental and physical state of the middle school teachers, and the pressure and fatigue are the essential reasons.For the second aspect, the dissertation points the teachers'salary, welfare, houses and traffic conditions, and the reason are the prejudice on teachers of traditional culture, the understanding lack of traits of teachers, the educational devotion lack of our country.For the third aspect, the dissertation points the current problems of professional status, training and research, and the reason are the freedom lack of teachers, pessimistic continuous education, unidentified research types, the consciousness lack of self-development.For the last aspect, the dissertation points the current problems of morality and happiness, and the reason are bad influence on human of modernity, the bureaucracy of school management, the hard deal with passive school culture of teachers.In Chapter 7 is the construction of an ideal existing state for the middle school teachers'. Teachers should be treated humanely and their particular needs should be satisfied as human needs. Therefore, ideal transformation, cultural reconstructions, institutional reformations and self-awakening should be realized.