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Building The Full Cooperation Of The Inquiry Learning Model To Promote The Professional Development Of Teachers

Posted on:2011-09-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S F FangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360332958290Subject:Higher Education
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Teachers are the key of education's development. Teacher Professional Development has been one of the central topics of present education reformation. Today's teacher professional development theories gradually come out from the rational orientation and toward to the reflective practice orientation and ecological orientation. The paradigm of teacher professional development are also have undergone tremendous changes, it is more emphasis on cooperation, practical, school-based, sustainable and so on in the teacher professional development. In this context, some strategies of teacher professional development in China, such as Workshops, study groups, immersion activities, action research, and counseling and guidance, etc. These strategies have their own superiority and different scope of application. Although they have had some effect, they can not fully promote the professional development of teachers. Looking abroad, we found that the Professional Development School in USA have achieved good results in Pre-service teacher training, professional development of serving teachers and the performance of primary and secondary students. The essence of professional development schools is the full cooperative inquiry learning model. In this mode, teacher professional development is characterized by cooperation, combined with the practical work and school-based and sustainable. Carefully analysis, we found that the model can help to development and improvement of teacher education concept, extensive teacher professional knowledge and breaking limitations of teacher's personal reflection.The research based on the following assumptions:establishment of the full cooperative inquiry learning model can help to promote professional development of teachers. The purpose of this paper is to design the model in China. Although the U.S. experiences of professional development schools are important, we should deal with the relationship between take and inheritance. Many domestic workers have begun to work at this level, these explorations in China have nearly gone for ten years, and they accumulated a certain amount of localization experiences and gained some success. However, there are many defects or problems in these explorations in terms of the conceptual level and practice level. In addition, these experiments remain in the trial of individual schools and have not been a comprehensive promotion or application. Even though there are many problems are outside of the model, I believe that one of the most important factors in the model is that it lacks a comprehensive, effective model design for the local environment. On this point, this paper shows the complete system design from the preparation, concrete steps, outcomes evaluation and external support factors.This study based mainly on the literature research. It mainly refers to the collection, identification, organize the literature, and develop the scientific understanding of the facts through the formation of the research literature. The reference literature include:publication of the relevant domestic and international papers and monographs, as well as newspapers and magazines. Through literature study on the research results and at the same time, use the historical research method, factor analysis and case analysis method hope to have a better understanding of the problem and understanding and finally construct my theory perspective.The dissertation consists of an introduction and six Chapters of main text. In the Introduction, the origin of the problem, related literature review and research objectives and methods are introduced and the key concepts concerned are examined. In Chapter 1, I study on the theories, strategies and other issues of teacher professional development and so as to recognize the related content of paradigm shift in teacher professional development. This is the starting point of the research in logic.In Chapter 2,I conduct a systematic study from the theoretical background to the relationship between the model and teacher professional development. In the meantime, I also conducted a comprehensive analysis of the relevant aspects of the practice in the United States. This is the basis and the main body of the research. In the last chapter, this paper shows the complete system design from the preparation, concrete steps, outcomes evaluation and external support factors. This is the core and conclusion of this paper.
Keywords/Search Tags:Comprehensive cooperation, Teacher professional development, Model design
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