Research Of Teacher's Professional Development From Teachers' Viewpoint

Professional development of teachers is not only an effective way to improve the level and overall quality of teachers, but also the key of success of elementary education reform. In recent years, both relevant government departments and industry experts and academics were given a high degree of attention and concern on professional development of teachers. However, during the study I found that most of those researches are putting more focus on external, related system and professional qualifications of teachers, rather than the professional development of teachers from teachers' own viewpoint. As a consequence, it may lead more teachers to ignore the analysis and research on their own individual emotion, psychology, mentality, value, internal driving factors, and their consciousness and initiative as a basic level in professional development, in particular, ignore the analysis and research of human's inherent pursue on happiness rather than suffering.In this paper, I am using the front-line teachers in middle school C as our target samples to analyze the real situation of teachers' viewpoint, understandings and advocate for professional development of teachers. Through different way of survey, interviews and analysis, I will try to find out whether there are any differences between the practice and the teachers' consciousness on professional development of teachers. If differences exist, then try to understand why and find out what to do next. Further research and analysis will also be taken to find out if there are any understanding and expectation differences between teachers on professional development. If so, understand why and find out what to do next. Meanwhile, I will also try to explore more scientific and rational ideas and suggestions that can not only stimulate the passion and activities of the teachers but also fulfill teachers' internal needs of sustainable, continuous development and the government and social expectation as well.In the first part of this paper, we will review and elaborate the teachers' feelings and the attention of the government, the scholars (professional development of teachers, teachers' understandings of professional development), research of relevant literature, the definition of key concepts and the contents and specific research programs that will present in this paper. In the second part we will cover in-depth surveys and interviews from teachers' viewpoint and understandings of professional development in order to obtain sufficient first-hand valuable information. In the third part we will focus on a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the teachers' perspectives and understandings of professional development and the evaluation in practice as well. We will also try to reveal the differences between the expectations of teachers and the government (official), experts, scholars, reveal reasonable and unreasonable differences and etc. in this part. The second and third parts are the major parts of this paper. In the fourth part, the author will put forward some ideas and suggestions on how to expand the consensus between teachers and officials, scholars on the understating of the professional development of the teachers.