A Study On School Curriculum Planning Of Rural Junior High School

Rural education is an important part of elementary education in the compulsory education system. The establishment of the thought of the three levels curriculum administration has provided schools with the curriculum development rights. At the same time,it also gives schools the power of the leadership of the school curriculum. The school–based curriculum planning is the process of the curriculum administration. Therefore,in order to improve the teaching quality,it becomes important to focus on rural school curriculum planning and do some researches about it.In this paper,the main research methods are literature,survey and interview.The most important point before we do research is to understand what thins the predecessors have done.Through this method, we can have an overall understanding about this field. After that, the concrete problems can be found in the investigation process. As we know, it is impossible to survey all rural schools in a limited time, so the author selects his hometown Quzhou county,Hebei Province as the case in this paper.After investigations at junior high school in rural area ,the author thinks that the main problems of school curriculum planning include:the schools lack of cognitions of the school curriculum planning and not put it into practice;school courses are incomplete;The ability of school-based curriculum development is not high and the forms of curriculum is onefold;the teachers lacks of the strategies of curriculum implementation; the evaluation of school curriculum is one-sided,etc. According to the problems,the author put forward the following suggestions:reform school educational system;determine the curriculum targets in rural junior school;overall planning school curriculum ; strengthen the schoolmasters'curriculum leadership;improve teacher's professional development;build education funds system,etc.The framework of this paper is:The first chapter mainly talks about the reasons and significance of selecting this topic and summarizing literature and research thought.The second chapter mainly defines the curriculum,curriculum planning and school curriculum planning and related definitions.The third chapter mostly discusses the problems of school curriculum in rural junior high school. This part , mainly from the aspects of the content ,implementation and evaluation of the curriculum explains the problems.The fourth chapter analyses the reasons of the existing problems from school institution,curriculum theory,teachers'professional development and educational policy.The last chapter mainly gives some suggestions about rural school curriculum planning.