| In 2012,the Profession Standard of Middle School Teachers puts forward professional requirements for teachers’ professional abilities,among which teachers’ instructional design ability is ranked first,which shows that teachers’ instructional design ability is crucial.The English Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education(2022)advocates a curriculum concept that focuses on the “Integration of Teaching-Learning-Assessment”(ITLA),proposes teaching suggestions to promote the design and implementation on the ITLA,and requires teachers to “design and implement teaching that integrates objectives,activities,and assessment”.With the introduction of this basic concept,educators are beginning to focus on the ITLA in teachers’ instructional design ability.Therefore,it is of certain theoretical and practical significance to study the status,problems and reasons of English teachers’ instructional design ability in junior high school based on the ITLA.This study investigates the status,problems and reasons of 77 in-service English teachers’ instructional design ability at 2 junior high schools in Yima by means of questionnaire,interview and case analysis.The research questions mainly include:(1)What is the status of the instructional design ability of the English teachers in Yima junior high schools based on the ITLA?(2)What are the problems in the instructional design ability of the English teachers in Yima junior high schools based on the ITLA?(3)What are the reasons for these problems in the instructional design ability of the English teachers in Yima junior high schools based on the ITLA?This study shows: the current level of English teachers’ instructional design ability in Yima junior high schools is above the middle level;its elements develop diversely.The understanding and practicing ability of the ITLA,teaching content analysis ability and teaching strategy design ability are at a higher level;students analysis ability,teaching assessment and reflection ability and teaching media design ability are above the middle level;the Curriculum Standard analysis ability,teaching process design ability and teaching objectives design ability are at a relatively low level.There are certain problems in the English teachers’ instructional design ability in Yima junior high schools based on the ITLA.English teachers in junior high school are relatively simple in analyzing Curriculum Standards;the designing teaching process lacks the integration between teaching,learning and assessment;the teaching objectives based on the ITLA are difficult to detect;the assessment is separated from teaching and assessment subject is single.The reasons for these problems involve three aspects: Teachers,students’ difference and teachers’ training.The three effective measures to improve the English teachers’ instructional design ability in Yima junior high schools based on the ITLA: Schools should encourage teacher to grow professionally and provide teachers with as many cases as possible to integrate the Curriculum Standards and practical teaching;teachers should pay attention to the students’ diversity;Education departments should carry out teacher training systematically and establish unified assessment standards. |
