Research On Rural Preschool Teachers' Professional Development

The teachers' professional development, which is characterized by improving teachers, inner professional quality and professional practice, has become the central topic of teachers specialization and is gradually becoming the focus people attach importance to and one of central issues among contemporary educational reform. The implementation of overview directions of preschool education set an even higher demand on preschool teacher's professional quality. But the Present situation is that preschool teachers, especially the preschool teachers in rural area can not meet the demands. Consequently, it is urgent to study how to improve preschool teachers' professional quality.Based on the theory of previous research on teachers' professional development, this research using documentation, questionnaire , interview, review the present situation of rural preschool teachers' professional development in Wan'an from five aspects :the speciality spirit, speciality knowledge and abilities, teaching, self-awareness of professional development, the culture of school ,and find the problems hitherto existed; then analyze the factors which influence rural preschool teachers' professional development from three dimension: society, school, preschool teachers itself; lastly, according to the factors, some suggestions have been put forward from this three aspects: government and educational administration should constitute soundly the system of the rural preschool teachers' professional development; school should create the culture of co-operation, teach rural preschool teachers how to do action research and do school-base training; the teacher itself should enhance self-awareness of professional development ,reflect and strengthen the co-operation and communication among teachers for promoting teachers itself professional development.