Research On Pre-service Professional Development And Professional Identity Of Full-time English Ed.M

The establishment of full-time Ed.M professional degree initiates the cultivating mode of basic education teachers. It is featured by the goal of cultivating high-level basic education teachers, practical orientation, cooperative training mode of university mentor and high school mentor, three issued certifications (postgraduate diploma, professional degree’s diploma and teacher’s certification), which attracts a great deal of attention. Nevertheless, the Ed.M professional degree is still at the exploring period and therefore some problems exist, of which is the low professional identity of full-time Ed.M students. Increasing their professional identity exerts great influence to their pre-service professional development.The thesis aims at researching on the current professional identity of full-time English Ed.M students, the approaches and methods to pre-service professional development. The research problems are as follows:1. the degree of professional identity of full-time English Ed.M students;2.what factors are influencing their professional identity and how the degree is;3. what methods or approaches can be adopted to increase their professional identity so as to foster their professional development.The thesis researched on the professional identity of part of2010th full-time English Ed.M students with interviews and all the2011th full-time English Ed.M students with questionnaires in N normal university.The questionnaire results are analyzed with Excel. Meanwhile, a high school Ed.M mentor and an university Ed.M mentor as well as a postgraduate student of applied linguistics major were interviewed as well in order to explore their views about full-time English Ed.M students.The research result reveals the professional identity of full-time English Ed.M students are at a moderate level. Along with the perfection of full-time Ed.M system, they have had better understanding of the full-time English Ed.M professional degree and adapted to the academic learning. However, they haven’t paid enough efforts to learning; the external factors exert more influence on their professional identity (the design of each section of Ed.M degree, career prospect, the status of professional degree), which decreases their professional identity.Therefore, as for Ed.M students, they should increase their overall skills and abilities by themselves; meanwhile, the Ed.M cultivating institutions ought to optimize the training mode of Ed.M and the Ed.M administration agencies should perfect the relevant policies so as to enhance their professional identity internally and externally.