Growing Steps

Professional development of teachers has a direct impact on the quality of education. With the advent of the information age and quickening pace of the process of teachers’professional development, the professional quality of teachers has also been raised to a higher demand. The focuses of teachers’professional development increasingly from the outside control "development" to internal control "to develop", from the group of teachers development to the concern of individual teachers development.China is a large agricultural country.Rural early childhood education occupies the important position of the education system. Education development is inseparable from teachers, so,.rural preschool teachers shoulder the important mission to enhance the quality of rural preschool. Faced with relatively scarce resources of rural education environment,independent professional development for early childhood teachers will become an important way to promote their self-improvement professional quality.How they carry out independent professional development? What is the strength to promote the continuous independent professional development? Encountered in the development of a predicament? I take this questions walking into the "the world" a rural kindergarten teacher.This study used the narrative research method, selecting a rural preschool teacher in Sichuan Province as the research object, According to the road of study, becoming a teacher,"I" exploration and self-growth, I described the life history of the L-teacher to show the trajectory of their own professional development and effecting their own professional development factors from the inside and outside the two levels of analysis. On this basis, further proposed to promote the recommendations of the independent professional development of preschool teachers in rural areas. Including the teachers themselves to improve the self-consciousness of professional development, the development of career planning, self-learning and self-reflection. Kindergartens should provide targeted personalized professional training for teachers, create a teachers’ cooperation and cultural environment, play the lead role of the expert and so on.