Research On Methods & Approaches Of Advancing High School English Teachers' Capability For Reflection

Using the reflection to advance the development of teachers' profession is trendy in the reform of education, and reforming the new courses also calls for doing so. For the level of the development of teachers' profession, Experimental Standards of the New Courses for Senior English clearly demands that teachers should have an idea and a capability with which they can become life learners. And they should change their former ideas of education and complete the teaching aims and tasks creatively to adapt to the new needs of the development of teachers' profession with their great efforts during the period of the development of society. Teachers should also search for an effective, creative and economical teaching approach to promoting students' development fully, trying to become innovative research-based teachers. Based on the situation of this kind, researching and revealing the specific property of the reflecting teachers' teaching action and promoting teachers' reflecting capability is of great practical significance in advancing the level of teachers' professional development.By means of the research documents and the investigation and survey of all high school English teachers in Dafeng City, Jiangsu Province and the result, this thesis forms a basic frame including the specific property of English teachers' reflecting, the problems of reflecting and the major causes and sums up and reveals methods and approaches of advancing high school English teachers' capability for reflection. The thesis is divided into five parts. The basis for research is the first part, with the background, the significance, the definition of reflection and the capability for reflection, theoretical basis, the research approaches and the specialist. The second part is about current situation of research at home and abroad. Surveying and analyzing the situation of the teachers' capability for reflection in Dafeng City is mentioned in the third part. And in the fourth part, methods and approaches of advancing high school English teachers' capability for reflection are suggested, including the policy and systematic guarantee given by the educational administration departments, the professional guidance by the educational research institute, the teachers' co-operation and the improvement in their own overall quality. The last is the end, mainly about the reflecting of the research, that is the suggestions on the methods and approaches of advancing high school English teachers' capability for reflection.