College English teachers professional development issues and strategies.doc

College English teachers’ professional development issues and strategies Paper Keywords: college English teaching profession, teaching ability Abstract: College English teachers imperfect common pre-service education, teaching concept behind the research and awareness, and weak capacity, lack of cooperation and development of consciousness and so the teacher should change the teaching philosophy, teaching observation and reflection, exploration and research through individuals and groups to develop ways to make their teaching ability in the academic, cultural and modern information literacy, research capacity, professional ethics and other aspects of continuing, life-long dynamic development. After half a century the world’s foreign language education reform, teacher education from the ‘teacher training’ to ‘teacher development’, which is the inevitable changes in foreign language education reform in China, the ‘teacher development’ concept is not completely popular. With of China’s rapid social and economic development, China’s national and international exchanges become more frequent, increasing demand for foreign language professionals, but the quality of foreign language teaching in China can not meet the needs of the state and society. build a high-quality teachers is to improve the key to the quality of foreign language teaching, and teacher professional development is the only way to improve the quality of teachers. So, college English teacher professional development goals? college English teacher professional development, what are the obstacles? college English teachers how to change their ideas, develop their own career ability? 1 teacher professional development: content and objectives According to Lange (1990: 245-268 definition of, the development of a teacher of teachers (including pre-service and in-service teachers in the intelligence, experience and attitudes on sustainable growth process. Graves believes that staff development should in