On Teachers' Humanistic Quality

With the new course reform permeating, the voice of improving students'humanistic quality is being raised gradually.A key factor of improving it is that teachers should have higher humanistic quality.However; the real situation of teachers'humanistic quality is not so optimistic. The purpose of this paper is to just explore the humanistic quality of teachers in primary and middle schools more systematically.Teachers' humanistic quality is that through certain ways (such as learning by themselves,being imparted by knowledge,environmental influence,social practice, etc.) they can gradually internalize excellent achievement on humanistic culture into their own character, personality, knowledge and accomplishment. All these things can become relatively-stable and internal spirit quality and psychological characteristics. The main connotation is the character of loving people, respecting people,understanding people, stressing humanism and caring for mankind's ultimate fate. From a professional perspective , it especially means respect for students'personality and concern about students'development in the activities of normal teaching and management.The structure of teachers'humanistic quality includes three parts: humanistic knowledge; humanistic spirit; humanistic way.Humanistic knowledge is the fundamental component; humanistic spirit is the core; humanistic way is the means through which teachers'humanistic knowledge and spirit can be realized. Teachers' humanistic quality has important value. Specifically, it contains two aspects: the identity value and the instrumental value.The identity value means the value to teachers'self-development , the instrumental value means the value to the development of teachers'profession.There are three theoretical bases in improving teachers'humanistic quality: the history of the thought of china ancient education, the theory of western modern humanistic education and the theory of whole-person education. Improving the humanistic quality of teachers in primary and middle schools is not only the urgent need of current society development but the need of the new course reform,teachers'major development,training students'healthy personality and creating good school culture as well.The author's investigation shows that there are three main problems on teachers'humanistic quality.The first is absence of humanistic knowledge;the second is loss of humanistic spirit;the third is lack of humanistic way.The reason of causing this situation exists on the objective side and the subjective side.The objective reason mainly includes the restriction of test-oriented education system, the burdensome work and great psychological pressure,the influence of social environment,etc.The subjective reason mainly contains unwillingness to study,narrow knowledge range, the weak sense of professional belonging, too strong utilitarianism on teachers'reading,etc.In order to improve teachers'humanistic quality,the author establishes five strategies as follows:creating good policy environment; reforming teachers'education;improving presidents'humanistic quality;creating humanistic campuses;teachers'personal struggle.