Research On Teachers' Professional Development For Vocational English Teachers In YueXi

The rapid advent of vocational education informatization and internationalization brings an upside down change in vocational English teaching.As a result,vocational English teachers not only get an opportunity for their professional development,but also meet with a challenge.The advent of the Internet era has opened the era of information technology teaching.Via internet,students can learn by themselves on any degree at any time.Students can finish their learning tasks in advance.So that they can leave more time for discussing in classes.Due to the students' initiative and enthusiasm,classes become more interesting and more effective.With the advent of the "Internet" era,teaching is becoming more and more informational and internationalized.Micro class and Moocs(Massive Open Online Courses)bring higher requirements for teachers in the mastery of information technology.The ability to acquire foreign advanced educational concepts and methods as well as means of information is more and more important.The internationalization of vocational education requires higher vocational English teachers to have international consciousness,internationalization ability and international experience.Under such circumstances,English teachers in Yuexi must improve their professional quality via professional development as soon as possible,so as to meet the requirements of times transformation.The current situation of professional development is unfavorable for the English teachers in Yuexi.There are two restraining factors on their professional developing way.On one hand,Yuexi is left far behind by those developed districts in Guangdong,for its slow development in economy and the lag of resource allocation.As a result,vocational colleges in Yuexi struggle to expand but still fail in providing impactful supporting resources and perfect management mechanism for training teachers.Education informatization and internationalization is under-developed.On the other hand,English teachers from vocational colleges in Yuexi haven't got corresponding knowledge and ability to adapt to the change of times development.Teachers haven't updated their concept of teaching.Lack of information technology and relevant knowledge.There are less teachers with senior professional title,double-professional teachers even less.Teachers don't have confidence in their ability,lack of innovative consciousness,enthusiasm and initiative in work.In order to make the vocational English teachers in Yuexi adapt to the change ofthe great era as soon as possible,it is necessary for the higher authorities to vigorously support the construction of vocational colleges in Yuexi in terms of policies and funds,to help the vocational colleges take the road of connotative development as soon as possible,to help them stride forward to vocational education informatization and internationalization so as to provide a better environment for teachers' development.Meanwhile,the vocational colleges in Yuexi should establish a management mechanism to promote the professional development of vocational teachers,increasing the intensity of teacher training,providing guarantee for the professional development of teachers.At the same time,vocational English teachers in Yuexi should take the initiative to seize this opportunity to establish a new concept of occupation education and lifelong learning,to get familiar with the concepts and methods of vocational English teaching,to break the convention,liberated from the traditional teaching.They must master the technology for teaching in the information classroom,have the consciousness of information technology education,get the ability to solve problems creatively by all kinds of information technology.Vocational English teachers in Yuexi also need to obtain the ability to encode and classify various kinds of information on computer,the ability to develop and utilize network resources and the ability of making and using multimedia courseware.They also need to have the ability of teaching based on digital network platform,but avoid getting in the mire of pure technology.They must follow the principle of teaching,use resources rationally,adhere to the fundamental goal of teaching in education,and promote the development and growth of students as well as teachers themselves.In recent years,great progress has been made in industry,agriculture,tourism,services and marine industries in Yuexi.Foreign cooperation projects increased."The Belt and Road" development of marine partnership and twenty-first Century "maritime Silk Road" brings infinite opportunities for foreign cooperation for Yuexi.Yuexi can take a geographical advantage in the connection between Guangdong and the Beibu Gulf,the Southwest and ASEA regions to strengthen the docking and cooperation with the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone and the Southwest,to build into the main channel of the sea in the southwest.To make full use of the opportunities of Chinese ASEAN Free Trade Zone's accelerating construction,strengthen the project cooperation with the countries along "Belt and Road Initiative" regions,and vigorously develop the economy of Yuexi.Vocational College English teachers in Yuexi must have the idea of development,the plan for development,and must strengthen the internationalization consciousness of the teaching and research,must understand the frontiers of knowledge,the latest research results and the latest statistics,as well as grasp the dynamics of subject knowledge,update the knowledge structure in time.Vocational English teachers in Yuexi must extend their international perspective,use the international occupation education standards to guide their learning and study,grasp the development direction of higher vocational education,to explore and innovate in their field with Scientific Outlook on Development's attitude,They must try to introduce some international content in their teaching,to cultivate applied talents with international English.It is teachers who can carry out the reform of education system and curriculum system,actualize the change of teaching idea.Without the development of teachers,education reform must be blocked.Teachers' professional development must be guided by the needs of talents for the development of economy in Yuexi,combine local needs with international requirement,and follow the trends of professional education development,then develop designedly and sustainably.