Study Of China's Primary And Secondary School Teachers Of Information Literacy And Its Upgrade Strategy

The Ministry of Education has enacted The Programe on curriculum Inovation in Basic Education (probationary)since June ,2001,which determined that the whole country would carry out new curriculum system in basic education from the autumn of 2001.That is to say ,teachers must change their teaching manners, teaching behaviors and the role as teachers into directors .organizers, researchers and promoters. The original knowledge, consciousness and skill will not satisfy the new teaching requirement, so teachers must promote their specialization standard. The information technology, as the professional knowledge and skill in teacher education, is one of required skills in teachers longlife study. The level of the teachers' information literacy will play an important role in new curriculum implement. China would spend 5-10 years on the prevalence of the information technology curriculum in elementary school and high school from 2001.Thus, Students will attempt more new study manners, for exemple, research study, independent study ,corporative study and so on. Teachers will exert their information technology superity and supply students study and development with rich education environment and advantage study tool.From two aspects above, teachers must have good information literacy ,then satisfy teaching and study requirement of the new curriculum. However, writer find there are many problems in information literacy of subject teachers in our schools, after questionnaire and literature search. Teachers can not use computers skillful, and more teachers can not apply technology into teaching and studying, and all teachers hardly master knowledge about information ethic. That is to say, the level of information literacy of teachers is still very low.Accordingly, there has come to be contradiction between the level of information literacy of teachers and teaching requirement in the informational teaching environment and the new curriculum implement context. So how to promote the level of teachers information literacy hasbeen an issue. This is this thesis main aim.This thesis analyses three reasons for the low level of information literacy of teachers. First, there are not scientific definition on information literacy. Second, people pay little attention to teacher education. Third, there are many problem in teacher education self. According to these, this thesis brings forward the definition on information literacy at the beginning, then, gives the concrete strategy about how to promote the level of information literacy of teachers.