The Study On Distance Training Of Rural School Principals

The principals of rural schools play the important role in the development of rural schools. It has become a regular educational activity to improve the quality of rural school principals though training. With the development of society, the concept and content, method of training of rural school principals have been changing. With the increasing development of modern information technology, therefore the knowledge update quickly. Due to the increasing number and scale of training, the administrative departments of education, the chief departments of principals training of rural schools, pay much attention to the method of training. Distance training brought new vital force for the training of rural school principals, but also created its own problems, such as the lack of time online learning, less online interactive, low quality homework, uncertain index of program, he lack of specific programs, the difficulty of long-distance management and so on. Therefore, in order to guide the practice of distance training of rural school principals, we need to go in for further studies in distance training of rural school principals, to sum up the reasons and find out the rules.Distance training of rural school principals only just started, the theory in this area is still lacking. This paper attempts to analyze the existing literature with human capital training theory, distance education theory, the literature research, the comparative study and experience summarization, and to sum up the practical experience in distance principals training of rural boarding schools in Midwest. It is tried in this paper to provide some rules as the guidance for practical activities. The following context are discussed in this dissertation, firstly, the training of rural school principals developed at the background of the development of modern distance education, and it can be divided into three stages; secondly, to explore the four functions of it:to promote school development, to improve the quality of principals and quality of life, and to achieve a fair principal training, saving training costs and solve contradictions of work and learning; thirdly, based on the analysis of distance training status of rural school principals (processes, characteristics, problems, constraints of the factors), this paper gives suggestions to improve effectiveness of distance training of rural school principals in the five aspects:the change of training concepts; complete training courses; reform the training methods; improve training conditions and strengthen the training of management.