The School-based Teacher Professional Development

How to improve the teaching level of teachers has been the focus of teacher education research. Whether in professional college of universities or in the actual workplace of teachers, teacher training, not only is the core topic of debate since teacher education appeared, also reflects the special nature of teaching profession which is professional. In any case, after the Second World War, although the dominate mode of teacher cultivation and training is in the professional college of universities, the mode of teacher professional development based on primary and secondary schools has been developed, regarded as a kind of complement of Professional Education in universities, The significance is that it can make full use of the real educational environment in primary and secondary schools, It is to solve the school development and teaching practice as the starting point of the real issues, It can promote the understanding of teaching for teachers, and can enhance the teachers' teaching ability and the real level.Case study is the main research method employed in this study. The case chosen in this study is X middle school. The school has been attached great importance to the training of teachers, and has made some achievements and accumulated rich experience in the practice of promoting teacher professional development. Data was collected in different ways including documents analysis, interview. Data was categorized into three inter-related parts for further analysis, that is:(1)environment, (2)system, and (3)behavior. For the professional development of teachers in primary and secondary schools, environment is the foundation, mechanism is the security, and behavior is the approach. In the practice of promoting teacher professional development: firstly, in the environment, X senior middle school provides a solid foundation, this article analyzed it at the "regional external environment and school internal environment" two levels; secondly, in the mechanism, X senior middle school gives a certain amount of protection, it specially sets up Teacher Development Office, which divide the work in collaboration with other departments to promote the teacher professional development, through a series of successively promulgated rules and regulations, the daily teacher management of X senior middle school are being gradually institutionalized and standardized; Finally, through a series of specific school-based training, the schoole implements the development, including both the grupe development and the individual development. The group development achieved through Teaching and Research Group, Young Teachers Development Institute, Masters Development Community, and so on. The individual development achevied through Consulting colleagues,asking for help to networks.Based on the above, the teacher professional development of X senior middle school has achieved satisfactory results.But there are also some problems of teacher professional development in X middle school, such as:the lack of famous teacher, the burnout phenomenon of key teachers. All the problems has seriously hindered the overall development of teachers, this study made some suggestions for improvement to solve the above problems. Finally, on the basis of case study, the author concluded that: school-based is an effective way of the teachers' professional development.