Study On District-level Teaching And Research Activities Of High School Life Science Teacher In Shanghai

The professional development of teacher is the central link of the education reform. Improving the quality of teachers is an important guarantee to the quality of education. Teaching and research of subjects, which is an important way for the professional development of teachers, plays an important role in improving teaching and leading professional development. Shanghai, as one of the developed areas of culture and education in China, has done a lot of practical works of district-level teaching and research activities (DTRA). In that process, there were multiform development modes of teaching and research activities, which were also accompanied by learning and adopting new education theories. At the same time, with the continuously deepening curriculum reform in the courses of life science, a variety of confusion and problems in teaching practice have been emerging continuously, so teachers expected to get more help from DTRA. Considering the background of teaching and research, it is of great practical significance to study deeply in how to improve the positive functions of enhancing teachers' professional development by DTRA.On the basis of investigation and research to the status and needs of DTRA for life science teachers of high school in Shanghai, researcher, depending on a platform in a district-level teaching and research, took cases studies with the members of teaching and research group in order to provide information for DTRA scientifically and make some contributions for professional development of in-service teachers.By using interviews, surveys, and statistics analysis, the status and needs of DTRA were studied in the part of the investigation and research. It included interviews of the members of municipal-level and some district-level teaching and research groups, and surveys of life science teachers in different types of high school from 12 districts of Shanghai. The research shows that: 1.teachers and members of teaching and research groups hold a positive attitude towards the role of DTRA in promoting the professional development of teachers. 2. There are great extents to promote professional development of teachers by effective activities. Based on this background, by using case studying methods, researcher has provided certain information and suggestions for how to promote professional development of life science teachers by DTRA.The part of case studies took the A-Zone for example, which is in the central area of Shanghai. The form, matter, flow and estimation of the DTRA were examined relying on the methods of non-intervened observation and questionnaire, so that actual situations were realized besides the well understanding of the whole. Then, based on the analysis for the actuality of the DTRA, the theories of professional development for teachers were combined with the practice of the A-Zone DTRA. Moreover, cooperating with the members of teaching and research groups, the strategies for promoting the effect of DTRA were discussed practically and some methods for studying the process of DTRA were formed. In addition, according to different teaching and research goal, DTRA can be classified into three types: general management, extension improvement, and intercommunion sharing.At the end of research, the meaning of effective teaching and research was considered practically. Several proposals were proposed for DTRA, which were based on the establishment of the goal of it and the selection of its form, preparations and communications, records and classification for it. Moreover, the directions for further study were pointed out.