The Problem Research Of Mentoring On Professional Development Of English Teachers In Secondary Vocational Schools

It has been a long time since mentoring became a efficient way to increase the vocational development of English teachers in secondary schools.So this research pays attention to the problems of mentoring in secondary schools to find out the ways to improve the vocational development of English teachers.Most of the researches in the past paid attention to teachers in primary and middle schools instead of those in secondary schools.And fewer researches have paid attention to teachers of a specific subject.Hence,this research is meant to study the mentoring in professional development of English teachers in secondary schools.The author researched the situation of the mentoring in many ways like questionnaire survey,observation,interview and so on.The author researched the English teachers of eight secondary schools in three cities in the northwest of Henan province by giving out questionnaire papers.The author has chatted with some leaders of the two schools in Jiyuan and observe the tutors and tutee in their class and the scene of preparation for classes together.Through the study,the author has found several problems in the implementation of mentoring which are as follows: as to the leaders in secondary schools,the first fault is lacking a reasonable standard of tutors’ selecting and related training.The second is that they haven’t followed the teachers’ advice during the process of match for tutors and tutee.The number of ways to match is too monotonous and the time is short.The schools lack evaluation of the process and encouragement for the tutors.Besides,as to the tutors and tutee,some of them have negative cognition to mentoring.They also lack reasonable plans of the mentoring.There is no guide about management for students in class which is of great significance for the tutee.Most if the tutors are not will to communicate with the tutee by modern technology.The tutors and tutee are not equal.For these,the author put forward several suggestions based on careful analysis for these problems.The managers of schools should make reasonable standards of tutors’ selection and provide related training.Follow the tutors’ and tutee’ advice during the period of matching.Enrich the ways of matching and extend the time.Pay enough attention to evaluation of the process and offer the tutors encouragement and prize.What’s more,the tutors and tutee ought to avoid negative cognition of mentoring and learn more about mentoring.Make scientific plans for mentoring.Enrich the content and add thetraining about management of students in class.Communicate with each other in modern scientific methods.Build equal relationship between the tutors and tutee and cultivate the tutee’s correct sense of question.