Research On The Construction Of Middle School Teachers' Professional Learning Community

Due to the development of science and technology, knowledge updates with each passing day.Considering the situation that a nation or a person is bound to fall behind once stop learning, thegovernment promotes lifelong learning and advocate building a learning society through the report.School, as the talent cultivation base, should shoulder the responsibility to train the learningpersonnels who can adapt to the social development, which demands techers first. On one hand,teachers should make themselves keep pece with the time, constantly update the knowledge structure,and actively learn the advanced knowledge; On the other hand, teachers must improve the ability tolearn, master effective learning methods and skills. Teacher’s professional development will fail tokeep up with the social development, if they still confine themselves to the individuals, with the quickupdation of knowledge and education technologies. Therefore, it’s important to learn together withothers, share experience, and complete each other to improve the learning effect. Taking advantage ofthe construction of learning school, elementary and secondary schools gradually build up teachers’professional learning community.This paper aims to understand the present situation of the construction teachers’ professionallearning community, explore the existing problems, and provide experience for the future construction.Based on the learning organization theory, this paper investigates the connotation, the form, theconstituent elements, the characteristics, the main body, the mode and the process of the constructionof the teachers’ professional learning community. Questionnaires and interviews are employed toinvestigate the existing problems of urban school A and suburban school B, which are concluded asfollows. Firstly, both urban and suburban schools share the problems that they lack the virtuallearningcommunity; the manager rather than ordinary teachers involved in the construction; learning content islack of pertinence. Secondly, there is a significant gap between the urban and suburban schools, mianyin the voluntary, democracy, equality, components, support conditions, etc.Thirdly, the urban school’sprofessional learning community also has some shortcomings, such as the incomprehensive buildingelements, the unitary of the main body, the untypical tissue characteristics, which build in poor results.Finally, this article put forward some suggestions for improvement in view of the present problems.First, rich the forms and increase the convenience of the virtual teachers’ professional learningcommunity; Second, break the monotony of teachers’ professional learning content, and make learningcontent accord with the teachers’actual requirements; Third, improve the elements of the teachers’professional learning community in urban school, shaping its typical characteristics; Fourth, transformthe mode of management in suburban school, and strengthen the support of teachers’ professionallearning community.