To Promote Teacher Development, Classroom Teaching Evaluation

Classroom teaching evaluation is a topic of generalinterest at present in the research of education evaluation.Based on rethought on classroom teaching evaluation, I intendto provide guidance to the construction of education evaluationsystem according to the demands of curriculum reform in basiceducation. With the implementation of the new curriculum, weare fully aware that the traditional system of classroomteaching evaluation for middle school and primary school hasa lot of disadvantages-----the purpose of the evaluation is forrewards and punishments;the evaluation is static and terminal;the standards of the evaluation is closed and unanimous. Suchan evaluation system rejects teachers ' demands, ignoresteachers' rethought, adds to teachers' burden and impedesteachers in their careers. To solve the above problems, Iattempt to reconstruct a new system of classroom teachingevaluation with the education concept of being dynamic andvital. The new system will contribute to help the developmentof teachers and carry forward the spirit of humanism andharmonious development.In the essay I briefly reviewed the research findings ofclassroom teaching evaluation and probe into the formingbackground of the classroom teaching evaluation that helps thedevelopment of teachers. During the above part, I reveal thedisadvantages and negative influence of the traditional systemof classroom teaching evaluation. I describe in detail that thesuperiority of the new system lies in the idea of humanism,varieties of evaluation object, stress on the self-evaluationof teachers, emphasis on evaluation of dialogue andcommunication between object and subject, concern about thediversity of personality, flexibly evaluation and combinationof quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis with thepriority of quality assessment. Its implementation has a dual,both theoretical and practical, significance: that is, good for,alleviating the teachers' professional pressure and reducingtheir burden;helping to develop the teachers;realizing theprofessionalism of teachers;promoting the management anddevelopment of the school;realizing the aim at curriculumreform in basic education.This article has theoretically studied the reason forestablishing the criteria of assessment: the evolution of theunderstanding of the essence of teaching activity;the expectedchange of teachers' role during classroom teaching;thehistorical retrospect of the study on assessment criteriaduring classroom teaching. Meanwhile, it has generalized theguide principle, the person-based principle, the efficientprinciple and the opening principle as well, all of which shouldbe abided by when establishing the assessment criteria, and Setthe layered and entire evaluation standard which includes thediagram for, assessing the design, the implementation processand rethinking of classroom teaching.Finally, this article illustrated how to carry out theevaluation system specifically and also pointed out the thingsconcerned: build up the organizational system forimplementation, create the cultural atmosphere which isbeneficial for the implementation, meet the elementaryconditions of implementation, obey the scientific principle,insist on the sustainable development strategy — startschool-based research. It testified the usefulness andfeasibility of the implementation of classroom teachingevaluation criteria by means of specific cases as well.