The Professional Development Of Primary And Middle School In-service Teachers: Reflection And Research

All the aspects of education are related to the teachers' profession directly or indirectly. The new tunes calls a revolution on the institutional education. The education innovation relies on the changes of curriculum, teaching practice and behavior and the changes on teachers' education idea and comprehension. Any specific education innovation has to go abreast with teachers' professional development. However, it is a world problem on how to transfer teacher from a career to a profession. Foreign researches on this have a relatively earlier beginning than we and now they have already gained some achievements. During recent years, domestic researches on this field are also prosperous, but they show no effective promotion on our teachers' professional development.In this study, the author holds the idea that teachers' professional development should have an ideal long-term goal and certain realistic aim on the different phases. The ideal teachers' professional development goal is to form teachers' education wisdom; the realistic phase aim is to emphasis the teachers' ability factors, especially the teaching ability together with the concerns on teachers' knowledge and emotional factors.The whole study is divided into six parts. The guide part presents the question and makes an analysis on the current situation. The first part discusses teachers' professional development is a long process from the real law point of view. The second part analysis advantages and disadvantages of several ways in practice nowadays in teachers' professional development, such as diploma education, post training, school-based training and self-education. The third part discusses the ideal goal and the current aim of teachers' professional development. The fourth part makes research on effective ways of teachers' professional development, re-evaluates the current ways in using. In the last part, the author concludes that teachers' professional development should have ideal goal, more important, should have the realistic aim on certain phase, this also requires joint efforts of the whole society.