The Influence of the Curriculum Reform on Teachers'Teaching Belief and Teaching Behavior——Based on an Investigation into the Current Status of the Project-based Learning in Senior High Schools in Gansu Province

Whether the Curriculum Reform can achieve the expected effect depends on teachers'accurate understanding of the teaching concepts accocated in the new curriculum,and more importantly on teachers'convertion of the teaching concepts and teaching objectives of the new curriculum into their teaching behaviors.A study on the present situation of the project-based learning in rural senior high schools of Gansu Province shows that,on the one hand,after some training and self study,most teachers have changed their educational ideas with the deepening of the school curriculum reform;on the other hand,there is still a gap between the teachers'teaching practice and the requirment of the new curriculum due to the complexity of the reform and the constraints of realities.Teachers'desire to change is the inner drive for improving their teaching behaviors,while solving the practical problems in curriculum reform can provide external conditions for improving teachers'teaching behavior.The curriculum administrators in schools should enhance their own understanding of curriculum reform and help teachers with practical problems so that teachers will become the real force of the reform and autonomously pursue the change in their teaching behavior to further the curriculum reform.