A Study Case On School-based Research Improving Teachers’ Professional Deveopment

Both teachers’ professional development and school-based research are thetwo important concepts in the new curriculum reform. Teachers’ professionaldevelopment refers to the one where teachers reflect on their educationalteaching ideas and behaviors in the educational practice, and constantly adjustand self-construct, so as to achieve continuous professional development.Teachers’ professional development is inseparable from teaching and teachingcannot break away from the school. Schools and classroom teaching are themain base of teachers’ professional development. School-based research lay itsfoothold on the new course teaching research to school, aiming to solve researchactivities, whose object is to face the specific problems of the schools in the newcurriculum reforms and whose main body is the teachers at schools, thus topromote the students’ healthy, active and full development and teacher’sprofessional development. School-based research is the effective way to solvepractical problems of classroom teaching and teachers’ professionaldevelopment.This study selected the educational research group of English of Jiao LingMiddle School in Meizhou City as the case. On the basis of the theoreticalanalysis of teachers’ professional development and school-based research, withthe school-based research carried out by the educational research group as astarting points, by using some qualitative research，including the methods ofliterature, survey research and action research, the study explores theschool-based research system, school-based research form and teachers’professional development. It in particularly mainly probes and studies on how tobetter the teachers’ professional development while carrying out theschool-based research. Meanwhile, in view of some problems existed in theschool-based research, the study puts forward some practical suggestions and opinions. They are as follows:1. School-based research is the effective way to improve teachers’ professionaldevelopment2. To strengthen the organization development of the educational research groupis the basic protection to carry out the school-based research3. To emphasize and cultivate the teachers’ self-reflection ability is thefoundation and premise to improve the quality of the School-based research4. Teachers’ collective mutual assistance and cooperation is the sign and soul ofthe school-based research...