A Questionnaire Study On School-based Teaching Materials’ Development At Primary School In Suzhou City

In June,2001, Ministry of Education promulgated “Essentials of Basic EducationCurriculum Reform (Trial)”, in which the Ministry claimed to change the situation thatcurriculum management is over centralized into a kind of level-3curriculum managementwhich is carried out by the country, local institute and school, and strengthen thecurriculum’s adaptation to local situation, schools and students. Then the level-3management pattern of curriculum has been formed, and the research on school-basedcurriculum has become a hotpot in the new round curriculum reform. Correspondingly, asone of the important ways to carry out the school-based curriculum, researches onschool-based teaching materials become much more. To realize the aim of school-basedcurriculum, teachers in school develop some teaching materials according to the needs ofstudents, which is been called school-based teaching materials. Most domestic scholarsspend their time on the research of school-based curriculum rather than school-basedteaching materials. Therefore, studies of school-based teaching materials become muchmore urgent.This paper made a discussion and research on the following aspects: First, get aunderstanding of the development of school-based teaching materials’ development both athome and abroad by referring to relevant materials. Second, master the actual situation ofschool-based teaching materials’ development through empirical investigation of Suzhouelementary schools’ school-based teaching materials developers, analyze the statistical dataand find problems; Third, get comments and suggestions on the development ofschool-based teaching materials through the interview of managers of Suzhou elementaryschool; Finally, expound problems existing in the development of school-based teachingmaterials and put forward some suggestions.