Research On The Effects Of The Principal Leadership On Teachers’ Professional Development

With the deep reform of basic education in our country, social public pay close attentionto the schools, teachers and principals, with increasingly more demands. In school educationactivities, the principal is the key to the development of the school; one of his work is topromote teachers’ professional development. The ultimate value of principal leadership is toachieve the "growth and development of people" within the school. Taking growth anddevelopment of "people" as the value orientation, requires that in the process of leadership,the principal respect the rule of education, attach importance to teachers’ professional growthand potential development, and focus on teachers’ self-esteem, achievement, engagement,sense of well-being and value realization.On the basis of a large amount of related research literatures, this study defines theconcept of principal leadership and professional development for teachers, comprehensivelyanalyzes the principal leadership at home and abroad and the present situation of the teachers’professional development, and chooses the human values education, learning organization asa foundation for the research of this study. Because the principal leadership and the teacherprofessional development have influenced and complemented each other, this research adoptsqualitative research method through site observation and analysis of all kinds of educationactivities as well as interviews and surveys, collecting first-hand research data. The writerjoined S Elementary School as a substitute teacher, held several interviews with principals,many teachers while teaching. According to the results of observation and interview, thispaper analyzes the principal leadership effects on teachers’ professional development from thehuman values education perspective.There are five chapters in this paper to state the effects of the principal leadership onteachers’ professional development: Chapter One: Introduction. Mainly state the reason why selected this topic, thesignificance of research and the theoretical foundation of the research.Chapter Two: Literature Review. It’s composed of three parts: the principal leadershipand definition of related concept about teachers’ professional development; research summaryof the principal leadership; and summary of teachers’ professional development in ourcountry.Chapter Three: Research method and design: This chapter mainly introduces theresearch object, the choice of research method, and the experience of researchers into thestudy field, and explains the method of collecting data and analyzing data.Chapter Four: Case&the analysis of the data and thinking. This chapter introduces theheadmaster M and his school, combining with the interview data of teachers, tries to analysisthe principal leadership effects on teachers’ professional development from the human valueseducation perspective.Chapter Five: The reflection on the research.Based on the understanding and analysis of the effects of teachers’ professionaldevelopment with S Elementary School principals leadership, hopefully this research canplay a certain reference and guidance for the principal to achieve its "people" to the growthand development.