Study On Actuality And Approaches To The Professional Development Of Secondary School Chemistry Teachers

The teacher professional development has been the tide and trend of the reform and development of international teachers education, similarly, it is the practical require of the procession's build of our elementary and middle teachers. Currently, our new curriculum reform of basic education is advancing designedly, and whether the new chemistry curriculum can be successfully brought into effect or not, it is crucial to foster secondary school chemistry teachers and promote the professional development of chemistry teachers. Therefore, it is necessary to know the actuality and demand of the professional development of secondary school chemistry teachers and to probe into the strategies or approaches to promote secondary school chemistry teachers growth and development rapidly. So by consulting much correlative literature of teacher professional development and investigateing the actuality and demand of the professional development of secondary school chemistry teachers in Chongqing, we analyze and discuss some strategies or approaches aimed at promoting the rapid growth and development of secondary school chemistry teachers.Based on this, this paper contains four parts:Part one, Preface. It states the origin of teacher profession development,the signifacance of raising the thesis ,as well as the content and methods of this study.Part two, Literature Summarizing. Firstly, the paper analyzes the development state of teacher profession. Then it differentiates and analyzes some correlated languages, such as in-service training, continuing teacher education, teacher professionalization, teacher professional development, etc. And lastly, it emphasizes the existing production of approaches'study on the teacher professional development.Part three, Demonstration Study. Using the questionnaire made by myself, this study surveys and analyzes the actuality and demand of partial secondary school chemistry teachers in Chongqong, and then uses SPSS11.0 to analysis the redemptory questionnaire. It stresses on the analyses of frequency, percent and x2 test. From these analyses, some problems found in the demonstration study are opened out, which aims at arousing up reflection and offering practical base for Part four.