Coversion Of Biology Teachers' Role In The New Curriculum

Since the 1960s and 1970s, some foreign scholars have already done some related researches in teachers'role. Our country didn't pay attention to this until the end of the 1980s. But with the new reform of curriculum, discussions about teachers'role have gradually become heated topic.In the ages of knowledge-based economy, scientific knowledge renewal speeds quickly and competition gets fierce. So cultivation of personnel with high qualitis is urgently needed. Therefore, the strategy"Juvernate the Country by Science and Education"has become important for our country in seeking to be a strong country and a juvernating nation. In this background , deepening education reform and pushing forward education for all-round development completely has become the main melody of education reform and development. This certainly demands great changes in teachers'teaching ways and students'studying methods, namely there is newer meaning in the position of teachers'role. The role of biology teachers also faces new challenge in the new curriculumreform.The object of this research is coversion of biology teachers'role in the new curriculum. Biology teachers are direct people of practising new biology curriculum. The view of modern teachers'role is one of the key factors that influence teachers'view about students'position. This is not only a requirement of curriculum but also inner demand of teachers'self-development. This research aims at exploring the important function that people recognize correctly the role of biology teachers in students'studying actively biological knoledge and teachers carry out teaching process smoothly.The writer has been engaged in the teaching work of junior high school new curriculum reforms and accumulated a lot of teaching experience. This research tries to explore the practice of conversion of biology teachers'role by studying documents and teaching cases.This thesis is divided into four parts.A general description of teachers'role is given in the first part. There are discussions about researches at home and abroad about teachers'role. There are also analyses of biology teachers in traditional teaching.An elaboration about conversion of biology teachers'role in the background of new curriculum is given in the second part. The analysis are done from the aspects of diverse intelligence theories, structurism theory, the requirements of education for all-round development and new curriculum, the theory of modern teaching, the theory of talented personnel and the new relationship between teachers and students.An elaboration about the content of conversion of biology teachers'role in new curriculum is given in the third part. It is pointed out that the changes of teachers'teaching behaviors are influenced by teaching ideas. Biology teachers should transform their roles to participants, cooperators and instructors in classroom teaching. They should become organizers, promoters,inspirationists and appriciators. They should work as cultivators who foster the biological science accomplishment of citizens. It is also pointed out combined with the characteristics of biology science that biology teachers should become initiators of exploration-and-research-based study in the experimental teaching. They should be cultivators of students'creative thinking. These issues are discussed combined with teaching practice.The strategies for conversion of biology teachers'role in the new curriculum reforms are put forward in the fourth part.Biology teachers should become life-long learners, reflective teachers, research-based teachers and developers of course resources.Teacher is one of the key factors that determine the curriculum reforms. New curriculum will change students'learning habits and teachers'teaching ideas. Teachers in the new curriculum will have a new teaching life.Teachers will advance with new curriculum and they will develop themselves with students.