A Study Of Teachers' Professional Co-operation Practice

With the coming of the new century, China is entering a comprehensive transformation. As one of the basic unit of Chinese society, schools are also confronting unprecedented challenges as opportunities as well. School education reforms, such as live-and-learn study system, construction of a society in which study is emphasized everywhere, implementation of new curriculum and the updating of teaching conceptions to enhance teaching quality in the tide of the social development, are to be carried out. The improvement of teaching is crucial to school education reforms. To a certain extent, whether school education reforms depends on the improvement of the teachers. One of the best means to improve teachers' competence is through teachers' co-operation. The improvement owes much to the efficiency of the teachers' professional co-operation. The projects concerning teachers' professional co-operation nhave been on in the last fifty years, therefore, there is a solid foundation for the teachers' co-operation. However, this kind of co-operation is more than often bureaucratic, lacking in the relative support mechanisms and techniques, which greatly reduces its efficiency.For quite a long time, schools have not been short of co-operation activities, but due to this or that the co-operations haven't reached the goals expected. Why is teachers' professional co-operation low in efficiency or not at all efficient? How can we improve our teacher administration to enhance the efficiency of teachers' professional co-operation? To solve series of problems like them, I have done this research. In this thesis, I first explore the connotations and theoretical foundations of teaching co-operation. Then, based on vast research and the survey of teachers' professional co-operation practices in Q middle-school, I attempt to analyze what has caused the low-efficiency or even none-efficiency in the teachers' professional co-operation, both pragmatically and theoretically, after which I will put forward some administrative strategies to promote the efficiency of teachers' professional co-operation practices and strengthen the effective instruction of them. I hope my work will be of use to the development and reform of other schools,The whole thesis is divided into four parts. "Putting forward the problems" is the first part, which briefly discusses why and how to do the research, which has borrowed much from teachers' professional co-operation theories and research fruits home and abroad. The second part, "Theoretical foundation of teachers' professional co-operation" is what this research is based on, in which relative concepts are defined and the theoretical foundation is analyzed from the angles of sociology, pedagogy and administration. The third part, "The survey and Analysis of the Teachers' Professional Co-operation Practices in Q Middle-school" is the main body of the thesis, in which the present teachers' professional co-operation practices are presented and the causes of the low-efficiency in teachers' professional co-operation practices are analyzed through a thorough analysis of the questionnaires and interviews. Also, it aims at instructing teachers to build up the awareness of co-operation, breaking the barrier of individualism. Furthermore, under the guidance of the school's rational administration, a harmonious cultural atmosphere in the school with the intention of enhancing the active co-operation among teachers and the rapid and sound development of teachers will be created. The fourth part, "Strategies Promoting Teachers' Professional Co-operation", is the core and result of this research, which explores strategies promoting teachers' professional co-operation through perfecting school administration and constructing teachers' professional co-operation culture.