Practical Strategies to Improve Teachers' Professional Abilities Author: The new round of basic education curriculum reform in Taodou Primary School is an unprecedented educational reform in China, which involves all aspects of school education. Exploring the new curriculum reform is inseparable from the core of curriculum reform-for the development of every student, the development of students is inseparable from the study of teachers' ability. Teachers' ability is related to the success or failure of education and restricts the process of curriculum reform. Therefore, in the face of the new curriculum reform and the new situation, teachers need to constantly develop and surpass themselves. Naturally, the school puts the work of improving teachers' quality and ability on the important agenda, and actively explores, boldly practices and adopts a series of effective methods and strategies. First, strengthen study and communication. If teachers want to seize the commanding heights and take the initiative in the new curriculum reform, they must understand the spirit of curriculum reform, grasp the concept of curriculum reform and update their educational concepts. However, the acquisition of these advanced ideas is mainly achieved through various kinds of learning. To this end, we try our best to create a learning environment for teachers and provide learning conditions and opportunities. 1. Enrich learning resources and meet reading needs. First, constantly enrich books and materials. Although the school is short of funds in recent years, it still has tens of thousands of books, and it is increasing by more than a thousand books every year. When subscribing to newspapers and periodicals, the school extensively solicits teachers' opinions and chooses books and periodicals close to education and teaching according to teachers' intentions; Arrange special personnel to update or supplement all kinds of books and periodicals in the reading room in time every month, which provides rich and colorful information resources for teachers. In order to encourage teachers to develop reading habits, at the beginning of reading, the school has formulated the corresponding reading system, formulated the necessary reading regulations, and strictly organized their implementation, which will be included in the monthly assessment of teachers. Second, create an electronic reading room. With the advent of the information society, we are increasingly aware that it is the basic feature of future education to realize the perfect combination of teaching process optimization and teachers' knowledge update with the help of computers and their network systems. 2 1 century, online reading will become one of the important means for teachers to acquire knowledge and carry out teaching and scientific research. It is urgent to cultivate teachers' awareness of online reading and realize online reading. Faced with this grim situation, the school has created a modern electronic reading room, so that teachers can spend their spare time wandering in the information ocean and keep abreast of all kinds of new trends in curriculum reform in various places without leaving home. Organize teacher training and learn the spirit of curriculum reform. In order to improve teachers' teaching ability and make them become leaders in the wave of curriculum reform as soon as possible, we should not only enrich learning resources, but also hire some experts in curriculum reform and experts with theoretical research and practical experience to give lectures, so as to update our concepts and improve our quality. Our school often takes advantage of Saturday afternoon breaks to invite the leaders of the teaching and research section to give lectures, and ask teachers who are proficient in multimedia courseware making to teach the application of modern educational technology in classroom teaching. Of course, while the school adopts "please come in", it also does not forget to let teachers "go out" to learn from it. The school often sends backbone teachers to visit and study in the experimental school of curriculum reform, watch the practical courses of curriculum reform and listen to the introduction of experience. All teachers who go out for study and investigation should not only write report materials and activities, but also carry out radiation training at school, take radiation classes and pass on new information to other teachers. Send young teachers to participate in the training of curriculum reform notice, so that teachers can look at curriculum reform from a high starting point, internalize the spirit of curriculum reform into their own thoughts, and other stones can be used by me, so as to better guide the practice of curriculum reform and improve their own abilities. 3. Strengthen cooperation and exchanges to promote capacity improvement. The new curriculum standard emphasizes that it is equally important for teachers to guide students to learn to cooperate and communicate in their studies. Professor Guo Yuanxiang of Central China Normal University's viewpoint of "no friends without teaching alone" emphasizes the cooperation and communication between teachers. In order to help teachers build cooperative knowledge and develop the habit of communication, our school has strengthened the collective preparation of lessons among teachers, attended lectures and discussed lessons with each other, and created a cultural atmosphere that is good at cooperative communication on campus, so that teachers can learn from each other and share experiences, which has been improved in the same way. For example, in terms of strengthening collective lesson preparation, the school is divided into several lesson preparation groups according to disciplines and grades, and each lesson preparation group determines a teacher who leads the team, emphasizing regular collective exchanges on the basis of teachers' independent study of textbooks. Every time a group prepares a lesson, the center spokesman is appointed in advance, and other teachers will add their own unique opinions after listening carefully. Through mutual evaluation and discussion, teaching plans are constantly revised and improved, which can not only achieve the purpose of sharing resources, complementing each other's advantages, optimizing teaching plans and improving efficiency, but also enable teachers to constantly sum up and make progress in discussion and revision. For another example, in order to make teachers cooperate better, on the basis of collective lesson preparation, the school gives each student a teaching reform experimental class every semester, and everyone listens to and evaluates classes together, learning from each other and supporting each other in such cooperative exchanges. Teachers all feel that they have benefited a lot. Second, the introduction of competition mechanism Under the condition of market economy, schools have no characteristics, teaching has no quality, teachers have no ability, schools have no attraction, no popularity and no lifeline. However, to improve teachers' professional ability, we should not only rely on learning and communication, but also boldly introduce competition mechanism, establish and improve rules and regulations, and use "competition" as a means to motivate teachers to consciously improve their ability. The school creates all necessary conditions to provide a relaxed environment for each teacher to give full play to his personal talents and realize the value of life; Create all necessary conditions to make the improvement of every teacher possible. First of all, in order to accelerate the growth of young teachers, the school promotes the pairing of backbone teachers with young teachers and apprentices, and formulates assessment standards at all levels in education in combination with morality, ability, diligence and performance. The leading group of school assessment participates in the assessment together with teachers, students and parents, which not only gives young teachers an objective and fair evaluation, encourages them to develop independently, but also stimulates the competitive consciousness of teachers and strengthens them. Secondly, in order to promote teachers' self-learning and self-improvement, the school has established a monthly post assessment system and a teaching quality assessment system, which links post assessment with teaching "five consciousnesses" and combines quality assessment with monthly teaching situation testing to give full play to the incentive role of competitions. Before the implementation of the above assessment system, we should let teachers know and understand, then listen to teachers' opinions extensively, and finally summarize the opinions to form a decision. In the process of assessment, teachers pay special attention to the comparison of their own work development, and take evaluation as a means of diagnosis, guidance and encouragement to form a benign competitive atmosphere of self-reflection, self-education, mutual learning, fair measurement and fair evaluation. Thirdly, in order to cultivate teachers' innovative spirit and creativity, the school organizes teachers to carry out a series of teaching competitions every semester. Such as: lectures, competitions, speeches, courseware making, paper writing ... Every activity is carefully prepared, carefully arranged and fairly selected by the school to help teachers tap their potential in all directions and improve their comprehensive quality. Through "material" and "spiritual" double rewards, teachers are encouraged and supported to create and discover in teaching. On the basis of school-level competitions, schools select outstanding teachers or works to participate in municipal and provincial competitions. Teachers are trained and inspired in all kinds of competitions at all levels, and young teachers with pioneering and innovative spirit stand out. Therefore, some young teachers said with emotion: "Through the competition, I know what to say and how to write a case." "Post-game evaluation not only exercises the evaluation ability, but also knows what conditions a good class should have. The teaching competition has really improved our comprehensive quality and cultivated our creative ability! " Third, deepen education and scientific research and enhance scientific research awareness. Marx once put forward a famous viewpoint: "Science is a revolutionary force that has played a driving role in history." Comrade Deng Xiaoping made a further judgment on this: "Science and technology are the primary productive forces." The truth they revealed makes us deeply realize that the way out for education development lies in reform, and the forerunner of education reform is scientific research. To engage in teaching and scientific research, the first thing is to improve the scientific research consciousness of all teachers. Based on this understanding, our school puts forward that all teachers must have a sense of responsibility, a sense of mission, a sense of urgency and the spirit of hard work and innovation, and also puts forward the slogan of "devoting to scientific research, not being a teacher, striving to be a famous teacher", aiming at rapidly improving teachers' educational and scientific research level with modern educational and scientific research ability as the core, taking teachers' scientific research level as an important symbol of being a famous teacher, and clearly stipulating that "teachers have high professional ethics, high teaching skills and high scientific research level" and other famous teachers. 4. Committed to the research of this subject. Educator Suhomlinski thinks: "To make teachers interested in their work, we must guide them to the road of scientific research." The subject is the carrier of scientific research activities. It is the only way to improve teaching quality and the training ground to improve teachers' professional ability to let teachers study and practice repeatedly in subject research. Therefore, the school strives to create a good research environment for teachers and encourages teachers to participate in the tide of educational research to exercise themselves and improve their abilities. The school has established a four-level scientific research management network of "Principal's Office-Teaching Department-Teaching and Research Group-Experimental Teachers", and has carried out three aspects of research: First, it has carried out research on topics under the curriculum reform, requiring each teacher to carefully formulate a plan of "Research on Inquiry Classroom Teaching Methods under the New Curriculum Concept" and actively organize its implementation; Second, according to the actual situation and the development trend of education, the school continues to intensify the research on ideological and moral education of children from divorced families and the research on experiential reading teaching mode; The third is to organize experimental research on the integration of subject teaching and information technology. Teachers are required to determine their own research topics according to the characteristics of disciplines and individuals, so that everyone can have a topic and carry out experimental research work, firmly establish the concept of "promoting education through scientific research" and enhance the awareness of educational research. In research practice, instruct teachers to carry out research activities consciously, purposefully and planned, collect and sort out relevant materials, analyze, synthesize and compare the materials, draw conclusions, and write research reports or papers; Analyze and reflect on the success or failure of classroom education and the problems existing among students, and put forward my own unique views. Hold regular meeting of research group every month. Teachers report research, introduce research methods and transmit research information. Schools also seize opportunities or send people out to learn other people's successful experiences and practices; Or invite experts to spread advanced educational theories; Or open the door, open the classroom teaching, discuss and study ... This series of "learning-practice-discussion" and other research activities have activated the old educational concepts in teachers' minds, formed a strong scientific research consciousness and lofty scientific research spirit, and improved the educational theory literacy and teaching and scientific research ability.