Secondary School Principals Training Effectiveness Research

With the development of the reform of basic education, the effect on school by the quality and ability of president is more and more obvious. In China, principal training has great significance for improving the ability and quality of president. As a carrier and medium of principal training, the courses not only reflects the training target but also is the most stable and direct factor of the training activities. In one sense, the training curriculum effectiveness determines the quality and effect of the principal training.To explore how to improve the effect of headmaster training courses,the study has choosen six factors that work.They are the curriculum objectives, curriculum contents, implementation of curriculum,curriculum teaching,curriculum management and course evaluation.Under the direction of the law of principal growth theory,education efficiency theory,developing curriculum evaluation theory and the human resource development theory,the study has taken the X president training center as a case to make clear the present situation of the effect of the middle school principal training course,and the differences are not only between the three level training,but also between urban and rural areas.At the same time, the survey has indicated the following problems:a lack of individual learning objectives due to unclear curriculum goals;the need of popularization in curriculum investigation and improvement of rationality of course content;single curriculum implementation way,the gap between both teacher types and teaching methods and principal intention;the limit of curriculum management;the demand of enhancement of communication despite relatively comprehensive evaluation contentOn the basis of the empirical study and in the light of the problems of the middle school principal training courses,the paper put forward the following strategies:to make clear the curriculum objectives to enhance the target suitability;to pay attention to the demand difference to strengthen the curriculum rationality;toinnovate the implementation ways and focus on the flexibility of curriculum implementation;to configure training teachers to improve the teaching interaction;to expand the management subjectsto enhance the curriculum management collaboration;to strengthen the evaluation guide to attach importance to the development of curriculum evaluation.