An Investigation And Study On Trainers' Actuality And Their Professional Development

China has entered the knowledge-based economy ages and the talent has become the first productivity since 21st century. To adjust the development of the times, the rapid development of the training market has promoted the emergence of trainers as an occupation. Because of the rapid development of training market and lack of proper market development guidelines, it will cause the unclear training market direction, so that the overall quality of trainers is not high as expected. How to enhance the level of trainers' professional development has become the focus of the whole industry.The focus of the paper will be on how to provide the trainers with a very practical way to promote the professional development according to the occupation characteristics of the trainers. Firstly, this paper summarized the current situation of the development of training market, secondly, it provided an overview of teacher's professional development theory, and thirdly, this paper did an investigation of the status of trainers in seven aspects. During the research of the trainers' status, I designed "Trainers' status questionnaire from consulting companies of Shanghai" according to interviewing results in my initial research on the part of trainers. The study sample was from 252 trainers who have contracted with consulting firms, mainly concentrated in the Yangtze geographical areas, with Shanghai as the focus of radiation surrounding Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. On the basis of these studies, this paper has put forward a way of professional development which can help trainers to develop and learn independently-"Trainers' Portfolio."Part 1 provides an introduction, including research topics, research ideas and research techniques line.Part 2 provides an overview of professional development theory, including the professional development of trainers, an overview of teacher's professional development and the revelation of teacher's professional development theory. As the research of professional development options for trainers is too little, I mainly draw on the theoretical studies of professional development of teachers to do the research of trainers' professional development.Part 3 provides findings and analysis of the trainers' status, including the basic circumstance of trainers' community, the type of the lectures, the work pressure of trainers, a sense of the value of the work of trainers, the pay of trainers, the...