On Teacher's Curriculum Power Of Elementary Education

"Teacher's curriculum power" is an educational practice proposition with profound historical and cultural connotation as well as urgent realistic needs. It refers to teacher's power to implement curriculum practice individually, which is endowed by educational code and national curriculum policy. Fundamentally, it is one of the indispensable and important documents to education. "What to teach" and "How to teach" exist inevitably, going with the produce and development of pedagogical activity. It is just not obvious in many periods of social development, because of the influence of political systems and productive forces. To raise teacher's position of curriculum autonomy and develop teacher's curriculum practice capability, moreover, to promote education quality for students' all-round development, teacher's curriculum power should be emphasized in educational practice. From the view of the realistic research background, teacher's curriculum power is the embodiment of teacher's rights and interests in education democratization progress. Its research can cause people's profound reflection to education function, purpose and mission, methodand measures, accordingly, the present pedagogical activity is carried out effectively and creatively.The latest elementary education curriculum reform specifies curriculum management concept that curriculum power can be multi-shared. In addition, various predicaments in the curriculum reform, making education theory and practice staff give their specific attention to teacher's curriculum power. Through investigation, we find that there are more worries than pleasures about teacher's curriculum power condition in primary and middle schools. On the one hand, the obtaining and operation of teacher's curriculum power is insufficient; on the other hand, teacher's curriculum power consciousness, curriculum competence and the president's curriculum leadership cannot adequately reply the challenge against teacher's curriculum power. Hereupon, the fulfillment of teacher's curriculum power could only depend on teacher's initiative self-change, from curriculum looker-on to curriculum intervener, curriculum executor to curriculum initiator, gradually cultivating curriculum power habitus, which not only aims at letting national curriculum power transferring to the local at ease, but also making its operation achieving favorable performance. This is the inner sake. In the meantime, the national government departments concerned, principals and university experts ask for cooperation too, supporting and guiding teacher's curriculum power endowment and operation mechanism construction. This is the outer one.The paper consists of seven parts:Preface It introduces the original reason for the subject selection; integrates and sums up the present research instance and existing problems about teacher's curriculum power domestic and overseas; explains its significance, ways of thinking and methods.Chapter 1 The Basic Issues of Teacher's Curriculum Power It helps to understand "What is teacher's curriculum power ": mainly discusses its essence and characteristic, source and composing. Teacher's curriculum power comes from laws outside, natural relation between teacher and curriculum internally, including curriculum decision power, exploitation power, implement power, creation power, evaluation power, etc. From the essence, the purpose of obtaining and operation it is not just exalt teacher's curriculum position to devote to teaching, but thereby to improve its' implement efficiency, to promote students better development. It is characterized by systematical regulation, limited equation, intention pointing, multi-values, complicated relativity and so on.Chapter 2 The Value Appeal of Teacher's Curriculum Power It is commonly the man's nature for teachers to yearn for curriculum power. The conduct of teacher's curriculum power is in favor of nurturing one's educational wisdom and occupational ethics. For students, teacher's curriculum creation benefits a lot for their innovation capability, animadversion and reflection abilities. As the curriculum leader and decision maker, the one who comprehends and evaluates, experiments and manufactures, teacher can effectively motivate curriculum development, and the obtaining of curriculum power enriches teacher's curriculum role too.Discussing the inner relationship between teacher's curriculum power and teacher's self professional growth, students' progress and curriculum development intends to reveal ""why to endue teacher with curriculum power".Chapter 3 The Historical Inspection of Teacher's Curriculum Power in our Country Teacher's curriculum power in slavery society, feudalistic society, modern society relates to each other because of cultural inheritance, while differs as social evolution. The historical reason why teacher's present curriculum power of elementary education comes into being may be penetrated by probing into the historical development of teacher's curriculum power.Chapter 4 The Present Investigation of Teacher's Curriculum Power of Elementary Education The paper adopts questionnaire and thorough interview to find out the present condition of teacher's curriculum power in primary and middle schools, discusses its positive factors and key problems, analyze its reasons from historical and the realistic aspects, and seek for impact factors of teacher's curriculum power according to the investigation result.Chapter 5 The Nurturance of Curriculum Power Habitus and Teacher Change The fulfillment of teacher's curriculum power requires a teacher actively changes by one's own in the first place, involving with curriculum role, curriculum paradigm, professional development principle, etc. Via changing the known fashions of thinking and working, the teacher attempts to operate curriculum power continuously, introspect its process and result, to form comparatively stable "scenario -behavior module" of curriculum power step by step, attaining to curriculum power operating "unconsciously" and developing curriculum power habitus in the end.Chapter 6 The Fulfillment Qualifications of Teacher's Curriculum Power The fulfillment of teacher's curriculum power mostly involves two matters: one is the endowment of teacher's curriculum power; the other is the operation of it. Hereinto, the endowment is the premise, the operation is the linchpin. Not only do these two count for the improvement of curriculum culture in school and the alteration of teacher's awareness and ability, but also relate to some mend of the national education system. The national government must transfer the curriculum power to the local, further increase education funds investment, remodel curriculum assessment and teacher training system; the presidents in primary and middle schools must improve their curriculum leadership, pay attention to the cooperation with the university, support and guide the fulfillment of teacher's curriculum power together. At the same time, power restriction, right restriction and ethics restriction need to be adopted to dominate and lead teacher's excessive behaviors in operation, to win equilibrium and harmony between curriculum power operation and student's progress, teacher's self growth and along with curriculum development.