Teacher Understanding Of Self-care

Understanding is the basis of individual existence, through which an individual decides on his life goals, development strategies and construe the significance of life. Such is the case of teachers. The curriculum takes up a large part of a teacher's time, while in the field of the curriculum; the teacher also plays an indispensable role. The teacher and his curriculum are inter-dependent. The teacher's understanding of his curriculum has an effect on the realization of the intended function of the curriculum as well as the self-development of the teacher. A hot issue as it is, most existing researches focus on the needs of curriculum reform, inclined to discuss teacher's understanding of the curriculum from other aspects other than the teacher himself. This research explores how to combine the fruitful implement of curriculum with the teacher's self-development through the medium of understanding, aiming to highlight the importance of teacher's understanding of the curriculum in the teacher's self-development and self-realization, so that it may create some opportunities to enhance the curriculum reform and the teacher's significance.This research is based on the analysis of basic theoretical literature as well as on observations, interviews and retrospections. The subjects in this research include more than 10 teachers and a large quantity of teacher's journals, retrospections and teaching narrations. The authoress puts forward her acknowledgement of teacher's understanding of curriculum as an interaction between the teacher and his curriculum rather than one-way control and manipulation. The teacher's understanding of the curriculum is integrated with his own life experiences and insights, so that self-realization can be achieved to the largest degree.To the teacher, as is his work, to understand the curriculum is also a part in his life, a platform for him to exist. However, currently, some teachers are absent from their understanding of their curriculum, or they themselves are present spontaneously in their understanding of the curriculum. It is necessary for the teacher to understand his curriculum properly in order to discover himself and discover his identity.The teacher's self consciousness varies in various development stages. There exist different understanding trends such as living-nature, teaching-nature or self-realization-nature, the first two may easily lead to the departure of curriculum from the teacher, the later is a kind of active persistent understanding as it melts self-pursuit for the life into the curriculum. The curriculum understanding natured by self-realization a constant process without destination , it includes five fundamental links rising in circulation middle helix: The puzzles from the curriculum practice with conflicts, the new opportunities of gaining new concepts, to improves curriculum understanding and self- harmony, new problems and perplexes, the initiative probes and thorough understandings.In nowadays'curriculum field, because the influence from institutionalized education mode and that from the technology reason, the relation between the teacher and the curriculum seems close but but in fact not so. With the development of curriculum practice and people's views on curriculum and teachers, the teacher and the curriculum come to anastomose. In this anastomosing relation, each other seep through the teacher and the course , the teacher is the curriculum spokesman even the curriculum itself, the curriculum also reports the teacher's life and spirits. The form changes into lively experience and practical or immediate significance, but the curriculum also becomes the carrier unfolding and continuing teacher life value and significance. The harmonious relation between the teacher and this curriculum guides the teacher to gain maximal degree self-realization on striving for the active free basis ,which is the ideal state of teacher's curriculum understanding.It is an important measure for guiding the teacher towards his ideal giving reasonable evaluation to the teacher's curriculum understanding. In all the assessments, the teacher's self-assessment is preferential. At the same time, the assessment standard should be based on the reunification of their own and others, universality and individuality, together with dynamic variety. The general decision must consider if the teacher can promote the self-development and the self-realization at most under the available curriculum condition. To promote and improve the teacher's curriculum understanding needs to cherish an ideal with a down-to-earth way. Considering the negative affects from the tradition curriculum culture and the concrete problems in now days'curriculum environment, we should arouse the inside and outside driving force of the teachers, on the other hand, make real efforts to provide rights and energy for the teacher , help the teacher set up the educational ideal, deeply understand the curriculum , work in the special field with self-activity and self-discipline, keep initiative in life, deeply make of his own, realizes himself in the process of the practice, and experience thoroughly the life significance and freedom.