A Comparative Study Of Teachers' Guides For Senior High School Mathematics Teachers

The official promulgation of the "General High School Mathematics Curriculum Standards(2017 Edition,2020 Revision)" by the Ministry of Education has launched a new chapter in a new round of curriculum reform.In 2020,major editions of high school mathematics textbooks have been published and put into use on a large scale across the country.The accompanying teachers' guide is used as a reference book for guiding teachers to carry out teaching activities,and is an important part of teaching resources.This study selects the first volume of teachers' guide published by four publishing houses,namely People's Education Press(A edition),Shanghai Education Press,Beijing Normal University Press,and Jiangsu Phoenix Education Press as the research object.The characteristics and differences of different editions of teachers' guide under the pattern of "one outline and multiple books".This paper firstly analyzes and deconstructs the form and structure of each edition from three aspects: layout design,whole book structure and chapter and column setting,and obtains its own uniqueness and inadequacy.Then,on the basis of the predecessors,an analytical framework for analyzing educational support in teachers' guide was improved and proposed,and the text contents of four versions were analyzed and compared from four major types and 14 sub-types.The study found that each version provided various types of educational support,and the various types of support were not balanced and focused.Among them,teachers' guide generally focus more on explaining the design of textbooks,and despise the expectations of students' thinking.At the same time,the four versions also show their own characteristics in the distribution of educational support types.Finally,from the aspect of writing,it puts forward suggestions for further improvement of teachers' guide,in order to provide some reference for the optimization of teachers' guide with a wide range of applications,such as the People's Education Publishing House A version of the teachers' guide,Beijing Normal University Press' s teachers' guide,etc..At the same time,according to the distribution characteristics of the educational support provided by each edition,suggestions on the use of teachers' guide are put forward.