Eploring Teacher Identity What Counts as Epertise of a Beloved Teacher-2019年文档分析和总结.docxVIP

Exploring Teacher Identity What Counts as Expertise of a Beloved Teacher ： A good teacher is often depicted by virtue of certain isolated competencies， such as knowledge， skills and attitudes. Teachers’ identity and their spiritual and emotional integrity are often ignored. This paper reports a qualitative study of the professional identity of an English teacher in a middle school to understand the identity and expertise of a beloved teacher. Through interviews and classroom observation， the study reveals that the teacher who owns a more advanced diploma or professional certificate but confines himself/herself to transmitting only formal knowledge is not well received by his/her students， and （2） that the teacher who is appreciated by his/her students teaches with heart and integrity of identity， and possesses a capacity for connectedness among his/her personal experience， subject， social context and students’ needs. The study triggers some implications for pre-service teacher education in China. The authors argue that teacher education programs must concern themselves with nourishing persons rather than technicians who are merely equipped with competencies. [文献标识码]A Introduction In many parts of China， nowadays， with the increasing technical control of teachers’professional work， the growing public accountability and the intensifying measurement of educational “outcome” through testing， more and more language teachers find it hard to meet the challenges of the new educational reform. For fulfilling the external demands for observable and performance outcome of teachers’ work， they often lose the battle of winning students’ heart of learning. They are only struggling to maintain the psychic and emotional energy essential to their work rather than connect in the face-to-face， voice-to-voice， and heart-to-heart interactions of the classroom（Palmer， 2002）. Many teachers are caught up in a bind between a good teacher beloved by their