Professional Development Participation of Rural Teachers in the Context of Education Digitalization:Influencing Factors and Integration Mechanisms—A Grounded Analysis of Teachers in a Poverty Alleviation County in Guizhou Province as an Example
Building a high-quality rural teacher team is of great significance to the development of rural education and the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.Under the background of digital transformation of education,professional development activities based on SMART EDUCATION OF CHINA platform provide a new path for improving the professional development level of rural teachers.How to effectively improve the participation level of rural teachers in digital professional development activities has become the key to solving the bottleneck problem of rural education.This study took rural teachers in a poverty-alleviated county in Guizhou Province as the research object,and learned about the professional development concept of rural teachers and their participation in digital professional development activities through semi-structured interviews.Based on the grounded theory,a theoretical model of the interaction and integration of internal and external factors in the professional development of rural teachers under the background of education digitalization is constructed.This model shows that digital professional development activities affect rural teachers'professional development concept at the three levels of achievement,planning and belonging,and then affect their participation level in digital professional development activities.In order to enhance the participation of rural teacher'digital professional development activities and stimulate the endogenous motivation of rural teachers'professional development,this study combines SMART EDUCATION OF CHINA platform to put forward suggestions from three dimensions:cultivating ambition with emotions,promoting reform with evaluation,and encouraging learning with groups.
rural teachersparticipation in professional development activitieseducation digitalizationgrounded theorySmart Education of China platform