Position: Professor, Faculty of Education Northeast Normal University

Vice director for Northeast Normal University Centre of Basic Education Curriculum research of MOE China.

Short CV: Professor, Faculty of Education Northeast Normal University

Vice director for Northeast Normal University Centre of Basic Education Curriculum research of MOE China.

Main areas of Research: curriculum implementation and evaluation, mathematics curriculum and instruction, teacher development.

Area of interest: Main areas of Research: curriculum implementation and evaluation, mathematics curriculum and instruction, teacher development.

The status of professional knowledge of primary school teachers and   strategies for improvement

The teachers' professional knowledge is an important component of professional attainment of teachers. It is important to analyze knowledge structure of teachers and to develop the assessment tool to look into teachers ' professional knowledge.

The structure of primary school teacher's professional knowledge

teachers ' professional attainment include the ethnicity, professional knowledge  and skills. Professional knowledge is an important part of teachers’ professional attainment. Primary school teachers’ knowledge includes mainly educational theories, curriculum knowledge, subject knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge.

The develepement of the assessment tool to measure primary school teachers’ knowledge

The assessment tool is designed on the basis of the four core elements of teachers' knowledge: educational theories, curriculum knowledge, subject knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge. It will be able to assess professional knowledge of mathematics and Chinese language primary school teachers.

Analysis of primary school teachers ' professional knowledge status.

With the assessment tool we investigate and analyze the knowledge development status of both in-service and pre-service teachers.  It is found that there is a lot of improving room for in-service and pre-service teachers ' knowledge, and there is a difference of two kinds of teachers.

Strategies for improving the teachers’ professional attainment in primary schools.