The Present Level Of Senior Middle Schools’ Politics Teachers’ Professional Development And How To Improve It

National medium and long-term educational reform and development program (2010-2020)put forward clearly:“Teachers are the basis of the project of education, just as education is thebasis of a100-year project. Good education depends on good teachers.”At present, the continuingreform of China’s basic education and the in-depth implementation of quality education inShandong Province are the new challenges to the professional development of politicsteachers in high schools. As high school politics teachers of new times, they should not onlyhave the task of imparting knowledge, and more importantly, they should have the task ofcarrying ideological and moral education; they should not only require a noble professionalethics and a new philosophy of education, but also have a more comprehensive professionalknowledge and expertise. Professional development of politics teachers of high schools is therequirements of deepening the quality education reform and the needs of their owndevelopments and self-realization.Weifang is relatively a developed area of basic education in recent years, and its basiceducation and teaching quality all have made great progress. With the quality educationreform developing, there is a gap between some high school politics teachers’ professionalismand the development of the times. With the ways of education changing, there are still someproblems in their career vision, educational philosophy, ethics, practice, quality level,teaching reform and so on, so they should adjust themselves to these changes. This hasbecome an important factor restricting the deepening reform of local education and furtherpracticing of quality education.This study using the questionnaire of high school politics teachers’ professionaldevelopment status as a research tool, based on the ordinary high schools in Weifang,researches and analyzes their status and restricting factors, and then put forward somestrategies to promote the professional development of politics teachers in high schools.Judging from the survey, politics teachers’ high education compliance rate is higher, and theyare more responsible, and also they have higher enthusiasm of participating in training; ofcourse, there are certain deficiencies, such as: the lower job satisfaction, lack of motivation,lack of lofty career vision; imperfect assess system and training form, and so on. All thesehave an impact on the professional development of politics teachers of high schools and thequality of education and teaching. In order to enhance the professionalism of politics teachers of high schools, and promotetheir professional development, the study proposes the development and managementstrategies at three levels: teachers personally should build a lofty vision, strengthen ethicscultivation, and adhere to professional ethics; they also should update the concepts ofeducation, get rid of examination thinking, and adhere to educating people; besides, theyshould enhance learning and practice their professional ability, experience, education, wisdomto achieve self-development; Government and education authorities should increaseinvestment in education and improve the treatment of teachers to keep on the stability of highschool teaching profession; they should improve teachers’ access and management system topromote teachers’ enthusiasm in teaching and researching; they should reform the trainingmode, focusing on the combination of theory and practice, to ensure the training effectiveness.Schools’ reform and teachers’ evaluation system should be improved to achieve thediversification of evaluation subjects and evaluation contents. And all these can create afavorable environment for lifelong learning and active growth to promote the professionaldevelopment of teachers.