Research On Pre-school Teachers' Professional Development Motivation And Its Influencing Factors

Pre-school teachers'professional development motivation is an activity and behavior which actively promote pre-school teachers to take professional promotion, is an effective inner strength for teachers'professional development.Based on search and read the documents,the author found that at present domestic literatures on pre-school teachers'professional development motivation research are also weak, the past research has focused on the function of population variables of pre-school teachers' professional development motivation, but lack of the overall situation of this,and the analysis of affecting factors is not comprehensive, they are all lack of certain systemic, careful and pertinence. Through daily observation the author also found that the situation of pre-school teachers'professional development motivation directly affects the pre-school teachers' efforts in the process of ascension, and also influence them professional mature and professional achievements.Using questionnaires and interviews, this paper took 680 pre-school teachers from the five representatives in Henan county, township, city and village kindergarten as research object, study their professional development motivation. Using SPSS 11.5 software carries on the analysis of variance, correlation analysis and regression analysis, data analysis, and statistical data, combining the interviews documents, detaily showing the situation of pre-school teachers'professional development motivation. From the teachers' personal background factors, the physical environment of the kindergarten and the inner factors of the teachers, the physical environment of the kindergarten and the social support factors to analysis the various factors which influence the pre-school teachers' professional development motivation. Research shows that:The situation of pre-school teachers'professional development motivation has the following characteristics:the teachers'professional development motivation still need to further improve; there are big differences about the professional development motivation within the teacher group; the condition of teachers' professional develop-ment motivation present imbalance; teachers'professional development motivation is multidimensional coexist, no motive state can not be ignore. The general characteristics of Influence factors of pre-school teachers' professional development motivation are as follows:(1) The overall impact of the age, professional and academic, professional nature and salary status on pre-school teachers' professional development motivation are not obvious. However, school age, occupation, marital status and health condition impact the teachers' professional development motivation clearly. (2) The location, type, resources and economic condition of kindergarten have obvious influence on pre-school teachers' professional development motivation, and the resources and economy condition is the core factor. (3) Among the pre-school teachers' implicit capacity factors, teachers' social support, professional development selfefficacy, time planning ability are important influencing factors on pre-school teachers' professional development motivation, and they have significant effect on the total motivation of pre-school teachers'. (4) The study atmosphere of kindergarten, cooperate culture, leadership, the evaluation mechanism, the experience of justice in working and the job prospects are important factors which affect pre-school teachers' professional development motivation,and the evaluation mechanism of kindergarten is the core factor. (5) The help of leadership and colleagues, the recognition of friends, the understanding and support of families and the attention degree of the leadership have a significant impact on the kindergarten teachers' professional development motivation, and the attention degree of the leadership is the core factor.Based on the problems above, combining the relevant research documents, this paper tried to put forward some education suggestions on how to improve the condition of pre-school teachers' professional development motivation;to improve the social recognition of the pre-school profession;to carry out the democratic and justice kindergarten leadership and management; to establish the pre-school teacher evaluation system which purpose is to promote development; to improve the pre-school teachers' self planning ability; to enhance pre-school teachers' selfefficacy of professional development.