Party Construction And Teachers’ Professional Development In Secondary Schools

The Party organizations in high schools shoulder the responsibility of carrying out the guiding principles for education of the Party. Presently, while sticking to and polishing up the Principal Responsibility System, the Party organizations in high schools should give full play to the role of political core and combat fortress, and thus open up new prospect.This essay focuses on "Party construction" and "teachers’ professional development". It starts from sorting through the relationship between the above two fields and defines facilitation and approaches of the construction of the Party’s progressiveness to the professional development of individual teachers who are Party members and the leadership and approaches of the Party organizations to the overall development of the whole teaching staff, through the role the Party organizations play in the development of high schools.This essay has a deep discussion on Party construction and a detailed analysis on the problems that occur when the Party organizations of high school level and Party members facilitate teachers’professional development. And on this base, I make suggestions on policy design, approaches and methods as regards to high school Party organizations controlling the key segments of school development and promoting teachers’ professional development.The essay methods are depth interviews and case analysis. I take the practice of Party construction and teaching staff development of Suzhou No.10high school as a base, sum up the experience and lessons, and design the plan and approaches of future work, which fully combines theory and practice together.Innovations of the essay lie in the facts that:1. It combines the progressiveness of the Party and the high standard of teachers’ morality, which pioneers an effective way to carry out the Party construction in high schools. 2. It enriches and deepens the theory of construction of Party organizations at basic level, and provides explicit ways for Party organizations at basic level to bring out the modeling function of Party members and to bring out the leading function of the Party organizations to the general public.3. It forms an impetus of staff development in high schools. A number of domestic high schools are undergoing the phase of rapid development at present. A lot of school leaders have acknowledged that only by promoting teachers and their sustained professional development can schools break the bottleneck of further development and ensure sustainable development of the future. However, many schools lack practical and effective ways in practice. This essay combines Party construction and teachers’ professional development together, which enriches the theory of teachers’professional development in high schools, ensures the development of high school teachers whether as individuals or as entirety and provides a new train of thought to the development of teaching staff and professional development of individual teachers.