The Challenges Faced by Rural Teachers in Implementing the New Curriculum Standards and Strategies for Overcoming Them—A Study Based on Interviews with Rural Teachers
The implementation of the new curriculum standards by rural teachers is crucial for cultivating students'core competencies and improving the quality of rural education.To explore the challenges faced by rural teachers in teaching under the new curriculum standards,interviews were conducted with 15 rural teachers.The results reveal that rural teachers face the following challenges in teaching under the new curriculum standards:blockages,such as insufficient understanding of the new curriculum standards and inadequate teaching abilities aligned with them;pain points,including rigid teaching evaluation management and limited evaluation content;and difficulties,such as incomplete training on the new curriculum standards in rural schools and challenges for rural students to adapt to the new standards.Based on these findings,the following strategies are proposed:deepening teachers'understanding of the new curriculum standards and enhancing their teaching abilities;improving the management of teaching evaluations and enriching evaluation content;optimizing training related to the new curriculum standards and providing more detailed learning guidance for students.
New curriculum standardsTeachingRural teachersCore competenciesTeacher appraisal