A Study On The Elementary And Secondary School Class Teachers Professional Development Motivation Mechanism

Class teachers as the school teaching direct actors play a role of bridge serving as a link between students and full teachers, the school and the family. The level of class teachers professional development not only directly restrict quality of their work, but also relate to the overall level of school teaching body and the ultimate goal of educating people. For class teachers play an important position in the school teaching, it indicts it's necessary to build a continuing and professional development of class teachers. However, at the present time, the class teacher professional development is still low, it is a very difficult problem to motivate the class teacher professional development initiative. Just as Professor James at Harvard University said one person can only do his twenty percents to thirty percents with deficient effectively motivation, in contrast, he can do eighty percents to ninety percents with effective motivation. It is now clear that it is necessary to carry out effective motivation. This article conducts the study in this context.This dissertation mainly consists of 4 parts as follows:The introduction part illustrates the origin, the value and the general situation of this research. And it also makes clear the research thinking and methods.Chapter one explains the meanings of the motivation mechanism of class teachers professional development and its significance. with comprehensive motivation theory as the guide, combining with the class teacher work group characteristics, using for the definition of teachers professional development, the author definites the motivation mechanism of class teachers professional development. Meanwhile points out the function with the students, schools and class teachers themselves.Chapter two analyses the status of the motivation mechanisms of class teachers professional development. the author selects 36 class teachers to interview in order to understand the problems which exist in the motivation mechanisms of class teachers professional development, based on the "full motivation", "all factors motivation" and "the whole motivation" of the comprehensive motivation, serving from the aspects of the state, school and class teacher about the status quo of the motivation mechanisms of class teachers professional development. The results show our country has recognized the importance of the work of class teacher, it has announced some motivation policies, and many schools have pay more attention to the construction of the class teacher, conducting school-based training of class teacher, and meanwhile attain success, but it also exist some problem. at present our country paid insufficient attention to encourage the school to carry out the construction of class teachers Professionalization, lacking the protection from policies for the class teachers professionality. the school is lack the environmental motivation for the service of the class teachers professional development, above all, class teachers' individual self-awareness is not enough. Through analyzing the data, the author sum up several reasons for these problems:they are lacking of professionalism on the class teachers, examination-oriented education lead to the weakening of class teacher status, and bureaucratic management style expansion of the power consumed class professional autonomy.Chapter three elaborates the conception of establishing and improving the motivation mechanisms of class teachers professional development. with the guidance of a comprehensive theory of motivation, the author proposaled the principle of building class teachers professional development motivation mechanism and proving measures of it. that our countries need to formulate teachers professional consciousness, providing policies motivation for class teachers professional construction; the schools should provide good environmental motivation for the class teachers professional development and system guarantee; the class teachers should face up their works professionalism, stress self-motivation and develop their ability by themselves.