The Research Into The Function Mechanism Of Teacher Professional Development Planning For Teacher Professional Growth

The function mechanism of teacher professional development planning refers to relevant elements which teachers obtain professional growth, achieve professional maturity by teacher professional development planning, the process and mode of their interaction. The essence of the function mechanism of teacher professional development planning is that it could contribute to teachers' self-directed development, improve teachers' reflective development, and realize teachers' harmonious development. The function of it lies in three aspects: mining the internal driving force for teacher professional growth, controlling the soft power that influence teacher professional growth, maintaining healthy and sustainable development of teacher professional growth.The function mechanism of teacher professional development planning is just like the "black box" in control theory, so the research method of black box is applied to solve this problem. It needs not exposure inside of system, but only through the whole of system to analyze the relationship between inputs and outputs, through which the function, characteristic, structure and mechanism of system are grasped.During the operation of teacher professional development planning, teacher's actions such as formulation, execution and reflection of planning are regarded as system's input, and teacher's reflection and behavior after being influenced are regarded as output. To choose the proper cases according to different input information and analyzing the teachers' behavior after being influenced to find out the basis of operation. Although many excellent teachers haven't written teacher professional development planning, their development process perfectly prove that they have pursuit and goal of their lives, have planning awareness and action of their career, which provide realistic proof for analyzing the function mechanism of teacher professional development planning. In general, the teachers that the degree of teacher professional growth is low or have some problems have teacher professional development planning, but this kind of planning is made by force and not executed effectively. On the basis of inspecting and interpreting the interrelated text and the phenomenon of teacher professional development, it's thought that the principle which the teacher professional development planning contributes to teacher professional growth is growth mode that combines self-organization and other-organization. The starting point of self-organization is toward goal. The action of self-organization is realized by managing goals, which is affected by teacher self-efficacy and teacher professional commitment. Other-organization optimizes self-organization system through focusing on self-awareness and educational faith.The function mechanism of teacher professional development planning has three factors: life goals, knowledge capital and education research, which are related and mutual supported. It operated like that: first, guiding teachers to arouse themselves, second, helping teachers to orient their professional development, thirty, instructing teachers to select variable ways, fourth, supporting that self appraisement is combined with appraisement by others. The mechanism of teacher professional development planning can not be successful without the motivating, which is not the objective, but only a way. Relative to outside motivation, the inherent motivation is much more important, so it must be found out. The concurrent action of individual, school and society is indispensable to keep the mechanism of teacher professional development planning. Adjusting the thinking and behavior of individual is the key point. Supporting from schools is the important guarantee. Propagandizing and pushing it are its foundation.