The Development Of New Teachers' Job Market In China

Since the 1990s, the employment model of teacher college graduates has been directed from planned distribution to marketing disposition, while the reform of teacher education system and the implementation of the Teacher Certification System have, at the same tme, made teaching profession increasingly open. Then people gradually became familiar with the concept of new teachers'job market. However, due to the slow reform of teacher access and training system with the blindness of market regulation, the new teachers'job market was problematic at the beginning of its formation. Therefore, how to improve and standardize the mechanism for opening up the employment of new teachers becomes the key to stabilizing the teaching profession and improving the quality of basic education.This thesis first analyses the relevant factors of new teachers'job market by literature research, and then reveals the potential drawbacks in the promoting of new teachers' job market by questionnaire survey. Based on the above study, it's necessary to clarify the core of development and give the reform advices.In historical terms, the evolution of our new teachers'job market reflects the change from exclusiveness to openness. After the founding of new China, the government has adopted the policy of unified job assignment for each teacher college graduate. During that period, teaching profession was characterized by a system oriented and exclusive. With the establishment of the Teacher Qualification System, new teacher sources have been expanded. Under the merger of the tuition policies of Teacher College, graduates began to choose their own jobs. In one word, new teacher resources are now totally maket-directed.By sorting out and analyzing the documents of teacher education, Teacher Certification System and others related, this thesis reveals realistic difficulties in current new teachers'job market which have to be handled. For example, Teacher Certification System fails to ensure the "access to qualified teachers"; professional quality of teacher college students is not recognized by employers; it's short of scientific teacher supply and demand forecasting mechanism and so on.In order to advance the development of our new teachers'job market, this thesis draws on the development experience on new teachers' job market from other developed countries. By focus on two aspects:teacher education and teacher access/employment, this thesis finally put forward some advices on establishing teacher professional standards, reforming teacher training model, raising teacher access requirements and building scientific teacher supply and demand forecasting mechanism.