A Study On The Present Situation Of English Teachers' Reflective Teaching In Rural Middle Schools

In the last few years, the reflective teaching has become an important topic which has the theoretical value and the realistic meaning in our country's current educational reform practice; it has also become one of the heated educational topics at home and abroad. At present, our country is carrying on the new round elementary education curriculum reform, so teacher's professional quality development meets the huge challenge, especially at present, our country's social economy is having the deep transformation, and international cooperation and competition is becoming intense day by day. So the change of the times requests the new spirits and the new educational concepts, therefore, only if the English teachers have their own quality of unceasing enhancement can they promote their specialized quality in the new educational reform.Since long ago, English teaching condition is not satisfying in the rural areas. At present, there are many constitutive problems in our country rural middle schools, such as teachers'low certificate, the unequal distribution of age, unbalanced education structure and so on. As an important component of English elementary education, English teaching has been a backward link in rural middle schools. As rural English teacher is in one kind of relative backward cultural environment, so teacher's professional development plays an important role in his teaching. The reflective teaching is also the powerful measure to promote English teacher's career development, therefore, it is very important to study English teacher's current reflective teaching situation in the rural middle schools.This thesis is based on the foundation of literature analysis at home and abroad, and the author unifies his more than ten years'life experience in Rizhao city to carry on this research. Moreover, the author makes the questionnaire and interview about 160 teachers'current reflective teaching situation in seven different economic development towns. This thesis focuses on the three main questions:(1) How is the current situation of English teacher's reflective teaching in this county town? (2) What causes to English teachers'reflective teaching? (3) How to solve the problems?This article consists of seven chapters. The first chapter mainly refers to background, value and significance of the study. The second chapter refers to the reflective teaching research at home and abroad and the theoretical basis, it mainly includes the definition of reflective teaching, the structure of reflective teaching, and the contents of reflective teaching and so on. The third chapter is about the research subjects and methods; the author mainly uses the literature methodology, the questionnaire and the interview to carry on the investigation about English teachers of different economic development level in this county town, thus discovering the current main problems of English teacher's reflective teaching in these rural middle schools. The fourth chapter is mainly about the data analysis, the author mainly carries on the analysis of teachers'basic situation, the current reflective teaching situation and the influential factors and so on. The fifth chapter is mainly about the major findings on English teacher's current reflective teaching situation in these rural middle schools. The sixth chapter is mainly aimed at proposing some feasible strategies to this rural middle schools, such as, enlarging the educational expenditure investment, strengthening school cultural reconstruction, carrying out different forms of continuing education, in order to promote rural middle schools English teachers'career development.