Study On The Forms Of Pedagogical Wisdom

With the further advance of new curriculum reform, people gradually realize that teaching is a complicated activity and dealing with problems in teaching practice depends on application of teachers’pedagogical wisdom rather than using technical and rational ideas. Therefore, teachers’professional development has a new connotation, and pedagogical wisdom becomes a mature mark of teacher’s professional quality. At the same time, faced with changes in teaching practice, the subject on teaching also has to retrieve characters of the practical wisdom which are lost in the process of scientific. However, existing researches on pedagogical wisdom mostly focus on the high level of the wisdom of pedagogical, lacking of specific and detailed study. The concept of pedagogical wisdom is a compound one, and has diverse manifestations. To code the forms of pedagogical wisdom, to present the real content of pedagogical wisdom are not only a necessary stage and important basement to theoretical research, but also more direct reference for teachers to take advantage of their own pedagogical wisdom effectively.Pedagogical wisdom is a kind of ability or reasoning form to effectively solve problems in teaching practice. Based on this definition, this study confirms the standard, teaching practical problems, to divide pedagogical wisdom into different forms. The problems are some situations to be overcome between the given information and target. As extension of situations on both horizontal and vertical directions, its complexity will significantly increase, and different practical problems will change for the changes of situation. This study summarizes problems into the following three categories:one is how to deal with emergent situation, the second is how to achieve teaching objectives, third is how to implement teachers’own teaching beliefs. Teachers in framing and solving these three problems should make use of the corresponding pedagogical wisdoms, which are teaching tact, strategy wisdom, and weighing wisdom.In comparison, on the one hand, Three forms of pedagogical wisdom are interrelated. Teaching tact, strategy wisdom and weighing wisdom both include three elements of capacity:discernment, decision-making, execution. On the other hand, Three forms of pedagogical wisdom are distinguished from each other. The teaching tact which could deal with emergent situation need creating thinking. The strategy wisdom which could achieve teaching objectives need practical reasoning. The weighing wisdom which could make one’s teaching belief come to true need balanced thinking.