Research On Policy Implementation And Improvement Of The Specially Contracted Teacher Plan

The modernization level of rural education reflects the development of a country’s overall education. In recent years, the whole world, especially those major developed countries, have been attaching great importance to the education in the poor and poverty-stricken areas during the process of promoting their domestic education reform and development. In the past years, influenced by the backward education thoughts, weak teaching forces and other factors, the education in China’s central and western areas is relatively backward. In order to balance and develop the basic education and narrow the regional gap gradually, China has been beginning to implement the Specially Contracted Teachers’Plan (SCTP) in those ears, aiming to solve the problems, such as teacher shortage and unreasonable structure, and to realize our national commitment and government’s responsibility.Since Gansu Province has implemented the SCTP in2006, the scope and scale of recruiting teachers are gradually expanding, and it has become a very important mechanism of Gansu Province. In order to further understand and be familiar with the SCTP, this paper conducts a research on the leaders responsible for the Educational Administration Department, and a gang of school leaders, teachers. The research is about the following aspects:the design and understanding of the SCTP, the process and mechanism construction, and the guarantying policy and support system, with the ways of policy analysis, questionnaire, interview, and class observation.According to the questionnaire, date analysis, rearrangement of the interview and the other information, the implementation of the SCTP is easing the contradiction of rural teacher shortage and optimizing the rural teachers’educational、age、subject、and quality structure and it is supported by most of the Specially Contracted Teachers. But due to the lack of top-design, and unsound supporting system, district standard for the policy, there are still many practical difficulties in the policy design、formulation, supporting system construction, the process of policy implementation. In order to further strengthen and improve the plan in Gansu Province, this paper proposals to make efforts form the following4aspects: Firstly, perfect the top-level design of SCTP. Encourage those college graduates with higher-level education to apply for the job; speed up the examination system reform; balance the gender ratio of new recruited teachers; come up with more flexible service period of teachers; speed up to turn the Specially Contracted Teachers’ training from scale development to quality promotion, and continue to make the SCTP more scientific.Secondly, establish the supporting system. Put the policy of Recommended in-service education master into practice efficiently; sound the professional title appraisal and evaluating system during the service period; support the sustainable development of teachers’ career and improve the policy’s attraction.Thirdly, implement the SCTP strictly with high-quality construction. Perfect the recruiting system; sound the incentive mechanism to attract teachers to those weak schools and teaching schools; give priority to the development of education; improve teachers’ identity-sense and sense of belonging; establish a strict standard that teachers’ majors are the same with the discipline they apply for; and improving the teachers’ evaluating system.Fourthly, strengthen the supporting system construction of SCTP. Stick to the welfare system "more fair and efficient"; improve the working and living environment to ensure teachers without worries, and form a "Easy, Harmony, Positive" relationship between teachers who have the same wish; and construct the supporting system to prove important motivation to implement the SCTP efficiently.