Challenge and Reconstruction:A Study on the Professional Identity of Primary School English Teachers in the New Era
The reform of compulsory English education in the new era not only changes the living status and sense of meaning of primary school English teachers,but also requires corresponding reconstruction of their profes-sional identity.The current professional identity of primary school English teachers faces many challenges in terms of system implementation,professional ethics,subject knowledge,and information technology,such as hesitation and insufficient motivation to implement teaching reform and weakened responsibility for occupational burnout.In the new era,primary school English teachers should bravely undertake the responsibility of teaching reform,focus on teaching effectiveness,and become promoters of educational reform.Secondly,they need to improve profes-sional spirits and ethics,striving to be role models of social morality.Thirdly,they need to establish a solid profes-sional foundation,improve knowledge structure,and become lifelong learners.Fourthly,they should enhance infor-mation literacy,empower primary English teaching reform,and become practitioners of smart education in the re-form of English teaching.In the wave of elementary education reform,primary school English teachers should ad-just and plan their professional development according to the needs of national development.They should have the pattern and responsibility of following the trend and taking advantage of it,as well as the confidence and courage to gather strength to improve themselves.
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