Astudy On Teachers’classroom Teaching Decision-making

People need to make a lot of decisions in everyday’s work and life. From the establishment of national macroscopic policy to individual’s decision in daily work, we all need to make the right judgments and choices. Teachers, as the soul of educational reform and curriculum implementation, need to make decisions in their professional areas. The new curriculum reform has expanded teachers’professional autonomy and made a redefinition of teachers’role, "the change and diversity of teaching requires all teachers to be a decision maker, but not a performer." Therefore, the experts asserted, "teaching is a process which needs teachers to make thinking and decisions constantly ", "any teaching behavior is the result of decision-making, teachers’most fundamental teaching skill is decision-making" and "effective teaching is basically the same as the reasonable teaching decision-making." (William, shavelson, Clark&Peterson)Some researches have shown that teachers need to make a series of decisions in curriculum design, curriculum practice and curriculum reflection before and after the three stages, at the stage of the decision-making in the process of teacher classroom teaching is the most unpredictable and will be a test to teachers’spot wit. Because the classroom is a complex of "Field", which is filled with a large number of uncertainties, classroom teaching is not a linear process step by step, and students are the individuals who develop and change continuously. As one teaching subject in a classroom, teachers face the decision-making all the time, and teachers’decision-making also determines the direction, form and effect of classroom teaching. The classroom is a field for teachers’ professional development, classroom teaching is the source of students’growth, so how to focus on teachers’decision-making in a classroom, analyze the essence of teacher classroom teaching decision-making, listen carefully to the voices of teachers’decision-making, has become an important research subject.This research based on the question of teacher classroom teaching decision-making, selected a primary school "A" as a case, took the Chinese teachers as the research objects and carried on the entire process tracking and in-depth inspection. The author entered into the scene, rooted in the field, and has " become" one of the "ordinary member", tried to show and explain teachers’bright decision-making behavior and decision-making activities, reveal and summarize the basic condition and influence factors of teachers’classroom teaching decision-making, and based on this to make conclusions and suggestions. As a qualitative research, the author took the qualitative research as a basic approach, the case study as a strategy, used participant observation, depth interview, thinking aloud, document analysis and other research methods, through the corroborations among different methods to give a validity and significance for this research.This dissertation consists of eight parts:Chapter One is an introduction which clarifies the research background, research questions, research purpose and research significance; Chapter Two is the literature review which discusses the relevant research results; Chapter Three defines the basic ideas, methods system and research process of this research; From the basic condition, base type, basic process and influential factors, Chapter Four, Chapter Five, Chapter Six and Chapter Seven elaborate the research findings and form conclusions; Chapter Eight sums up the main points of this research and puts forward the related proposals. The research indicated:First, by examining the Chinese teachers at different levels in the case school, this research really showed the basic status of teacher classroom teaching decision-making. With the explanation and analysis, this dissertation showed the background of Chinese subject teaching implementation in "A" school, which is the overall classroom environment and main foundation for the run of teacher classroom teaching decision-making; On the other hand, it presented the basic type of Chinese teacher teaching decision-making in the case school. The research results showed the teacher classroom teaching decision-making can be divided into four different types, which are:implementation class with being loyal to the presupposition, adjustment class based on the presupposition, generation class beyond the presupposition, unexpected class out of the presupposition.Second, this research not only revealed what the research objects’ decision-making are in the case school, but also strived to know what they are thinking in their mind and listen to their "inner voice", finding the basic process of Chinese teacher classroom teaching decision-making in the case school. The basic process told us why the teachers made some decisions, how to make decisions, what decision-making based on? It put forward four basic elements for classroom teaching decision-making, concluded that its movement process was the recycle of four basic links, and analyzed five bases when teachers made some rational decision-making. We consider that teacher classroom teaching decision-making is not only the specific performance of personality and style, but also the expression of teachers’thinking process. More importantly, teacher classroom teaching decision-making is a kind of value judgment and value choice, which a teacher based on his experience and ideas and blended the knowledge, emotions, skills, and many other factors to make.Third, this research found classroom teaching decision-making is the result of interaction among varieties of complex factors, and the factors which affects and restricts teachers’ classroom teaching decision-making can be divided into four aspects, namely:the influence factors from teachers, students, environment and teaching itself. These four factors form a dynamic influence factors circle, when teachers make decisions instantly one of them or several factors will have the influence.Finally, on the basis of comprehensive analysis to the results, this dissertation formed the basic conclusions and made the related suggestions.