On School-based Development Of Elementary School Teachers

During 1980's, teachers' vital status being recognized further in elementary education field, a large number of activities of training teachers having being organized all over the country. Furthermore, the training is being intensified step by step. These actions improve the teachers' qualities and speed up their development. But with times proceeding, the defects of university-based training are becoming visible, so some schools learn the overseas experience and develop school-based training, which makes up for the defects to some extend. The training to "make up for defects" is not enough to promote teachers' active and all-round development, in view of this, the paper puts forward the concept of "school-based development of elementary school teachers", in order to search for more extensive countermeasures for teachers' development.This paper is divided into three parts.The first part puts forward the concept of "school-based development of elementary school teachers". After expounding what teacher' development and school-base mean, the author gives implication of school-based development of teachers, and analyzes the reason why the research is limited to elementary school. Next, the paper advances four causes about school-based development of teachers' appearance: (1)Ponderation on traditional training mode; (2)Emergence of school-based curriculum, school-based research and school-based management; (3)Recognizing the teaching essence more deeply; (4)Understanding the image of teachers in new perspective.Because the school-based development of teachers depends on school-based training abroad, the second part mainly examines the representative school-based training in America and England. Based on this, the author further inspects the advantages and disadvantages of school-based training in improving teachers' school-based development, which is the basis for author to conceive school-based development of elementary school teachers in China.The third part is the conception to promote the school-based development of elementary school teachers. On the basis of the analysis of the factors which affect school-based development of elementary school teachers, the author tries proposing some concrete measures: (1)Changing related personnel's idea; (2)Implementing school-based training; (3)Launching action research;(4)Setting up learning school.In short, the development of teachers should be active, open and comprehensive. All circles must be responsible for the teachers' development, especially the teachers and the schools where teachers working. The advancement of school-based development of teachers is not to negate theeffects of traditional training in promoting the teachers' development; on the contrary, it is a reparative and alterative measure. What's more, the help outside schools for promoting teachers' development must have the teachers' and schools' active participation as its basis. The author hopes related personnel to devote themselves to the practices and research of improving school-based development of teachers.