The Study Of Professional Identity And Management Of Temporarily Employed Kindergarten Teachers In Chengdu Tianfu District Great City

The key to preschool education lies in the quality of the teachers. Professional recognition of the preschool teachers has a great impact on the development of teaching industry. Contract teachers in the government-run kindergartens are a special group generated to alleviate the burden of teacher insufficiency while governments are pressing ahead to promote kindergartens. Therefore, there is of great significance for promoting the steady development of preschool teachers to research on professional recognition of the contract teachers of the government-run kindergartens. The professional recognition is a comprehensive concept that includes active cognitive experience and behavioraltendency of the preschool teachers to their profession and their roles as a teacher. It comprises of professional cognition, emotional belonging, inter-persons support, professional input, competency, sustained promises, and professional expectation.This research, using government-run kindergartens in Tianfu New District of Chengdu Sichuan Province as examples, adopts methods like questionnaires and interviews to contract teachers, and introduces SPSS 19.0 software to analyze research results. The analytical results show that contract teachers as a group have a comparatively high sense of professional recognition. They have high recognition of professional cognition, more accurate basic idea of preschool education. They have higher intention of professional dedication, high competency and are well coordinated with fellow colleagues. They have strong sense of pride in what they do and are in earnest need to gain focus and support from the society. They clearly realize and take initiative to gain support from peer colleagues and parents. And they expect the job to be stable and hope to have more opportunities for career upgrade. However, at the mean time, research shows contract teachers have certain problems on theirprofessional recognition development as well: lack of a sense of belonging in career life, dissatisfaction about work salary, lack of strong desire to stay in the position, not highly valuing professional development, narrow support scopes, low emotional experience in career, lack of skills, confidence, or professional capability for problem solving, and less profound understanding of career expertise.Based on the analytical research, this thesis proposes countermeasures and suggestions on how to further promote the management of professional recognition of contract teachers in government-run kindergartens. Firstly, related policy system should be improved. It should accelerate establishing related regulations to safeguard their income and benefits. More investment should be made to narrow the income gap between contract teachers and permanent staff. Stricter access should be adopted to ensure the quality of the group. And more efforts should be made to help society recognize their expertise. Secondly, more efforts should be made to enhance the sense of belonging and pride of the contract teachers. Give them more emotional support and care more about their psychological healthiness. Equal opportunities should be provided for their upgrading and development. They should have access of constant training to help them grow professionally. And thirdly, their inner drives should be mobilized to enhance self-management, build professional confidence, improve self-study ability and promote career development.