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Professional Development Of Teachers To Construct Knowledge

Posted on:2009-06-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C SuiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2207360242994424Subject:Principles of Education
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At present, the professional development of teachers is the direction and theme of professional teachers, the paper from the perspective of teacher's knowledge and construction on professional development of teachers. Teachers'professional development is the continuous process of individual profession in which teachers accept new knowledge and gain professional competence. Teachers should become mature professionals, through continuous learning and exploration to expand their professional course and enhance their professional standards, so as to achieve their professional maturity. Professional development of teachers has the characteristics of long-lasting and continuous-growing, with three orientations of sensible,practice-reflection and ecological orientation.Paper analyzes of the current in-service teacher education deficiencies. The main ones are as follows. Teacher training is in serious utilitarian thinking, the conspicuous "only academic certificate" phenomenon, resulting in the transference of knowledge content of teacher training from the variety of teaching practice Teaching knowledge in the construction of these subjects and building materials is outdated Teacher-training is obsolete Teachers'professional knowledge is hard to have the effective convergence. The concepts of specialized teachers in the education are not accepted by many.For in-service teacher professional development to construct knowledge, after the effective interpretation of the teaching knowledge, the article concentrates on practical knowledge and academic knowledge. It holds the opinion that the practical knowledge, the subject teaching knowledge is not only the core of teachers'knowledge composition, but also practical knowledge is the basis of teachers'knowledge construction. Teachers need highly professional practice, the development of teachers'knowledge cannot do without the teaching professional practice. Materialism tells us that theory only comes from practice and returns to practice; a theory without practice is empty, practice without theoretical guidance is superficial. Therefore, in recent years, the summing up of teachers'practical knowledge has been paid much attention to.With the careful analysis and summary of the knowledge of teachers and scholars at home and abroad, the article raises the effective way to construct teachers'knowledge: practical knowledge of teachers is the basic of the in-service teachers knowledge construction; teaching reflection is the key to in-service teachers knowledge construction; constructive learning and problem-solving based accumulation of knowledge are the important method and means to construct in-service teachers'knowledge. The article provides a theoretical basis on the in-service teacher training.
Keywords/Search Tags:Teachers, Professional development, Knowledge, Construction
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