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Five career plans for future development
Article 1 Career planning for future development
Education needs theoretical support and rational nourishment. With the deepening and advancement of the new curriculum reform, the role of teachers is becoming more and more professional, and teachers are increasingly facing great challenges and severe tests from all sides. In order to broaden their professional horizons, improve their professional level and enrich their professional quality, and keep up with the pace of the times, we have formulated a personal professional development plan for nearly three years. I. Description of personal basic information
I 1997 graduated from the normal class of xx Vocational Education Center in July, joined the work in August of the same year, joined the junior college class in 20xx, and graduated from xx in 20xx with a junior college diploma. 1997 September to July 20xx, taught in xx Primary School, and taught in Liuhe Beishan Primary School since 20xx, and has been teaching for xx years. I have a wide range of hobbies, love education and dare to challenge and innovate in my work.
Second, the analysis of professional development conditions
1 Loyal to the educational cause of the Party and the country, conscientious in education and teaching, rigorous in scholarship, caring for students, and democratic in teaching.
2. Have advanced education and teaching concepts, be able to keep pace with the times in time, and be good at reflection, practice and innovation.
3. Have certain professional research quality. For more than ten years, I have been engaged in mathematics teaching and educational research practice, and formed a teaching style of "emphasizing thinking process, emphasizing language practice, being rigorous and flexible". Always adhere to scientific research as the guide and improve teaching quality as the starting point, and strive to explore effective ways to optimize classroom teaching and students' intelligent structure, and the teaching quality is among the best in the whole region.
Third, the determination of professional development goals.
Teacher professionalization is a development process of all-round efforts and continuous progress, and it is also an accumulation process of constantly enriching and perfecting content. To this end, in the past three years, I will improve my professional ability and subject accomplishment from the following four aspects.
1, change the role of teachers and establish the consciousness of serving students.
Professional work is a social welfare undertaking for the benefit of mankind. Teachers' profession must aim at education and promote the all-round development of people. I think only by establishing the consciousness of serving students can we establish students' dominant position and truly return the classroom and study to students. In teaching, I will improve my role behavior through a series of introspection activities such as continuous reflection and inventory, and gain the vitality of innovation and transcendence.
2. Implement action research and deeply understand the curriculum concept.
Professional theoretical research should be combined with practical work. Therefore, based on the new curriculum classroom teaching, I will strive to conduct an action research every year to improve my professional theoretical accomplishment and professional practical ability.
3. Clarify the direction of professional training and create a strong field for professional development.
4. Strengthen theoretical study and accelerate the pace of professional growth.
Theory is the guide of practice and the foundation of professional development. In the past three years, I plan to read 3-4 monographs on education and teaching theory every year and constantly improve my knowledge structure.
Fourth, implement the strategic plan of action.
1. Conduct action research based on project practice to create a harmonious and pleasant learning atmosphere for students.
2. Write 3-5 educational and teaching papers and cases every year, and strive to publish them in journals above the provincial level to improve theoretical cultivation; Published two educational papers in core journals within three years.
3. Timely organize education and teaching reflection and inventory cards, and consult relevant teaching and research personnel and experts in order to obtain professional guidance.
4. Stick to 1-2 hours of study activities such as reading, reading newspapers and taking notes every day.
5. Insist on the research on the effectiveness of classroom teaching, take the lead in research class and observation class, strive to be among the best in the municipal evaluation class, and form their own teaching style.
6, take the initiative to learn from the old teachers, through the "teacher" activities, and strive to make their own teaching to a higher level.
Article 2 Career planning for future development
Today's society is a society with rapid economic development and "explosion" of knowledge economy. Teachers' personal development is a problem that we should pay attention to as teachers, and preschool education puts forward higher requirements for today's teachers. In order to improve my education, I reflected on my work in recent years, found many shortcomings and formed my development plan for the next three years. First, self-analysis:
I started preschool on July 1997, and it has been 10 years since this year. I am passionate about this job. I like children. Children are the symbol of sunshine. They are pure, kind and sincere. Although I will be their teacher, I can feel a unique atmosphere from them that I can't feel anywhere else.
(A) Advantage analysis
1, I am happy, I am full of innocence.
I always let myself live a sunny life. Even if I encounter great difficulties, I try to laugh them off, so I have always maintained a childlike innocence, and I can communicate with them in a child's tone. I can also personally join the children's games and have fun with them; In class, I treat every child with a kind attitude and guide them with words. I am more like their big sister and their good friend. I love my children, and the children love me. For me, this is a harvest and a joy.
I am young and full of hope.
At the age of 27, we are in the prime of life and have a strong ability to accept all new things, and I am no exception. In 10' s teaching career, through hard work, I have successively obtained junior college and undergraduate education, passed the advanced certificate of computer for primary and secondary school teachers in Wuhan, and won excellent results in provincial and municipal courseware making competitions many times. Youth is a kind of capital, and youth is a kind of hope. Now what I have may not be enough, but because I am young, I have enough time to absorb new nutrients and make me do better, because I know: there is nothing in this world but better!
Vulnerability analysis
Although I have accumulated some experience in education and teaching, with the progress of the times, our education has also changed, especially on the basis of following the most basic teaching standards, exploring and studying new educational and teaching characteristics. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the interpretation and practice of the Outline.
Second, career prospects
Education is a cause that needs dedication and care. People compare teachers to "engineers of human souls" and "the most glorious profession under the sun". This great honor carries many people's entrustment to our teacher, and it also means that our responsibility is great. Then, in order to shoulder this burden, we need to put our passion into it. Because love is a teacher. Only by being passionate about this career can we face up to all difficulties and setbacks, bear all grievances and pressures, and be firm and calm on this ordinary and great life path. As teachers, we have a long way to go. There may be thorns ahead, but when you enjoy the happiness of your child's growth, everything seems insignificant. In this increasingly impetuous era, we should not only dare to be sharp, but also be willing to be lonely. Maybe we are poor, but we are also rich, because we have shaped a group of fresh lives with our love. With the progress of the times, people's understanding of education is becoming more and more profound. Parents also pay more attention to their children's early childhood education, and the social status of our teachers is also improving day by day. This provides a good development atmosphere and prospect for our development.
Third, self-positioning and overall goals
1, self-orientation: study hard, do things in a down-to-earth manner, be an upright person, and strive to become a discipline leader.
2. Development goal: strive to form a personality charm of dedication, diligence, indifference to fame and fortune, self-discipline, generosity and tolerance; Practice the ability of being open-minded, cautious, sincere and kind to others; Improve the business level of being diligent in learning, willing to think, good at understanding and good at expressing.
Make yourself a thoughtful and insightful teacher; Teachers with noble morality, standardized behavior, pioneering and innovative spirit and praised by children and society; Teachers with certain theoretical basis, scientific research ability and professional skills.
Fourth, the target analysis
(A) the goal of teachers' morality:
As a profession of educating people, the teaching profession requires high and endless labor quality. Therefore, as a teacher, I always tell myself to pursue Excellence, advocate first-class, reject mediocrity, pay attention to the development of my innovative spirit and practical ability, emotion, attitude and values, truly grow into an excellent teacher who does not disgrace my sense of mission and historical responsibility, and dedicate all my knowledge, talent and love to children. I believe this is also the ideological realm that every teacher pursues.
(2) In terms of learning objectives:
1, seriously participate in every teaching and research activity, take the initiative to learn from teachers with advanced teaching concepts and rich experience, and listen to the lessons of peers to learn from each other's strengths.
2, combined with the actual situation of children in the class, carefully designed lesson plans, every class is well prepared, fully prepared before class, and take notes after class.
3. In teaching, encourage children to find problems, question and ask difficult questions, let children develop the habit of independent learning and independent thinking, and guide children to carry out research-based learning activities.
(3) Education and teaching:
Children-oriented, reflecting the spirit of innovation. Let children devote themselves to learning activities, experience and appreciate the process of knowledge formation, feel the fun of learning in teaching and appreciate the learning methods. The new educational concept puts special emphasis on children's learning methods, and requires children to contact their own experiences, experiences and collected new knowledge information, develop children's original resources, exchange children's ideas and problems, get in touch with new knowledge resources, and constantly synthesize and improve the new knowledge system. Multi-directional interaction enlivens the classroom atmosphere and stimulates children's learning enthusiasm through learning and communication between teachers and students, individuals and groups.
Through the gradual implementation of the three-year plan, the following expected effects should be achieved:
1, the consciousness of learning professional knowledge and improving professional skills is obviously improved.
2, can produce a strong desire for self-improvement.
3. Gradually improve your education blog and give full play to its "reflection-communication" function.
4. Become a discipline leader and a research-oriented teacher.
5. Become a senior teacher with high ideological quality, strong reform consciousness, reasonable professional structure and high education and teaching level.
6. Become an excellent teacher who can meet the needs of educational reform and development.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) measures and countermeasures
(A) the improvement of professional level:
1. Learn educational theory and enrich yourself in rational knowledge.
Seriously study the "Outline", "Regulations" and other relevant materials, learn new textbooks and new curriculum standards, study teaching methods, understand the nature, value and concept of the new curriculum, and improve their professional ability.
Read an educational monograph every semester, take notes in time, write your own experience, and enrich your cultural accomplishment. Read more authoritative educational periodicals and magazines, learn more about the opinions of educational experts and experts, and understand the current trend of educational reform, which is of guiding significance to their future education and teaching work.
2. Improve professional quality and enrich yourself in Jina.
Insist on teaching and learning from each other and gain self-development. Attend lectures frequently and communicate with lecturers through classroom teaching; Diligent in questioning, dare to raise your own questions or different opinions, and make * * * progress in * * exploration; Get real feelings from it, constantly improve yourself, promote the promotion of personal professional knowledge, and let yourself grow up with the new curriculum.
(b) Good at thinking and promoting development through reflection;
Learn to think about educational problems, actively transform advanced educational ideas into teachers' behaviors, and improve the level of teaching and research from reflection. Because "changes will always happen, and they will always take away your cheese". However, in the actual teaching process, we often ignore the reflection on our own teaching behavior and treat all problems with old eyes and experience, which just makes the mistakes of empiricism and dogmatism. As Spencer Johnson said in "Who Moved My Cheese": "Anticipate the change, be prepared that the cheese will be taken away at any time, follow the change, and smell your cheese often, so as to know when it will start to go bad." Only in this way can we "adapt to the change as soon as possible, the sooner we give up the old cheese, the sooner we can enjoy the new cheese, change it, change with the change of cheese and enjoy the change." Therefore, teachers should be good at reflection, criticism and self-criticism if they want to keep up with the pace of new curriculum reform as soon as possible and accelerate their own growth. For a new teacher who has just worked for a long time, he should update his ideas at any time, deeply reflect on every practice, form good thinking habits through continuous summary, and promote development in solving contradictions. After each activity, I will write down the problems and valuable things I found in my teaching practice, enjoy the success and make up for the shortcomings. Improve yourself by summing up experience. Insist on working with your brain and strive to: reflect on yesterday-develop in reflection; Today's exam-identify in the exam; Looking forward to tomorrow-innovating in the future. Always combine work with thinking, work in thinking, think in work and work creatively.
(C) the use of information technology to assist teaching:
Make full use of network advantages, learn new ideas of education and teaching, master new methods and apply new theories, improve teaching effect, explore the application of multimedia teaching in preschool education and courseware making, and further improve your teaching blog.
Personal suggestions and requirements of intransitive verbs
1, participate in various high-level training and study, and improve your level in all directions.
2, provide more opportunities to get out of school, learn from others' strengths and make up for their own shortcomings.
Article 3 Career planning for future development
Career development is one of the core issues of life development. For every college student who is about to find a job, career problems are unavoidable. The purpose of university education is to promote students' all-round development, improve their comprehensive quality and become talents as soon as possible, and students' career development planning is a sense of responsibility for their future and an important criterion for comprehensively expressing whether a college student is qualified or not. I. Self-inventory
The professional experience of successful people tells us that a person's career development and success in life depend on his strengths, not his weaknesses.
Personal advantages: optimistic, broad interests, strong adaptability, quick hands-on, studious, down-to-earth, serious and responsible, persistent, hard-working, brave to meet new challenges, positive thinking, strong psychological ability to bear setbacks, helpful and extensive interpersonal communication.
Personal shortcomings: average grades, sometimes overconfidence, recklessness and informality. Bad at words, indecisive in dealing with problems, and incomplete in considering things.
Value orientation: I long for my ability to be affirmed, have a strong desire to control and dominate, and hope to enjoy unlimited development space. I have a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values. Through studying in the university, I have a good value tendency.
Second, career preparation.
The stage of vocational preparation is inseparable from the situation of this major in China. My major is mechanical design, manufacturing and automation. The machinery industry is a department that manufactures and provides mechanical equipment and electrical equipment for all walks of life, and is known as the "equipment department of the national economy". At the same time, the machinery industry is the highlight of China's economic restructuring, which is related to the lifeblood of the economy and one of the most important means to improve production efficiency. For a long time, China has improved its light and heavy industrial system by importing foreign advanced machinery industry, which has created a world market for machinery products.
Mechanical manufacturing and its automation is a subject that studies mechanical manufacturing theory, manufacturing technology, automated manufacturing system and advanced manufacturing mode. This discipline integrates the latest development of related disciplines, which makes manufacturing technology, manufacturing system and manufacturing mode take on a brand-new look. The goal of mechanical manufacturing and its automation is very clear, that is, combining mechanical equipment with automation through computers, forming a series of advanced manufacturing technologies, including CAD (Computer Aided Design), CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing), FMC (Flexible Manufacturing System), etc., and finally forming a large computer integrated manufacturing system (CIMS), which makes the traditional mechanical processing get a qualitative leap.
Professional direction requirements: students have solid and systematic basic theoretical knowledge, profound professional knowledge and skilled experimental skills. It is particularly noteworthy that these majors also require students to be proficient in reading foreign language documents of their major, and have good foreign language listening and speaking level and certain foreign language writing ability. Graduate students must have the ability of mechanical product design and manufacturing, computer-aided design and manufacturing, manufacturing and equipment control, production organization and management.
Employment: Because mechanical design is the most traditional mechanical subject, in order to train modern mechanical engineers, many colleges and universities that recruit mechanical talents tend to recruit graduates majoring in mechanical design. It is understood that graduate students majoring in mechanical design can go to national scientific research institutions after graduation, such as the Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Aircraft Design. You can also go to R&D, the manufacturing, sales and after-sales service department of foreign-funded and private enterprises. Mainly engaged in the design and manufacture, scientific and technological development, applied research, operation management and sales of machinery manufacturing in the front line of industrial production.
Professional requirements:
1, with solid. Good foundation in natural science, humanities, arts and social sciences, and ability to use one's own language correctly.
2. Systematically master the extensive technical and theoretical basic knowledge of this major, including mechanics, mechanics, electrical and electronic technology, mechanical engineering materials, mechanical design engineering, mechanical manufacturing foundation, automation foundation, market economy, enterprise management, etc.
3. Have the basic skills and basic technical operation of drawing, calculation, experiment, test and document retrieval necessary for this major.
4. Have the necessary professional knowledge in a certain professional direction in this professional field and understand its scientific frontier development trend.
5, with preliminary scientific research, scientific and technological development and organizational management capabilities.
6. Have strong self-study ability and innovative consciousness.
Ability within the scope of occupation:
1, engaged in the preparation and implementation of mechanical design and manufacturing process regulations, engaged in the maintenance of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic and other control equipment.
2, engaged in the design and manufacture of process tools, engaged in CNC machine tools, machining centers and other high-intelligence equipment programming and operation, locksmith, lathe or electrician's primary skills.
3. Engaged in on-site technical management of mechanical design and manufacturing, and engaged in sales and service of mechanical and electrical products.
4, have the basic ability to prepare and implement the mechanical design and manufacturing process regulations, have the basic ability to use, maintain, repair and manage mechanical and electrical equipment.
5. Have the basic ability of process tool selection, design, manufacture and debugging, and the preliminary ability of technical management of mechanical design, manufacture and production site.
6, the basic application ability of mechanical CAD, the ability to use computers to process words, charts, data and information, the ability to design electromechanical diagrams, and the ability to compile NC machining programs.
Industries that can be engaged in:
1, state-owned enterprises are: power companies, power supply bureaus, power stations, substations and so on.
2. Foreign companies include Schneider Electric, General Electric, mitsubishi electric and Siemens.
Schneider Electric, as an electrical company specializing in the electrical industry, has a long history and strong strength. Products in the fields of power transmission and distribution, low-voltage power distribution, low-voltage terminal power distribution, industrial control, programmable controller, etc. are distributed in the four major markets of electric power, infrastructure, construction and industry.
3. Production enterprises.
4. Logistics center.
As a graduating college student, first of all, I choose foreign companies and advanced western heavy industry bases, followed by state-owned enterprises, such as Yutong Company, Shaolin Bus Company, Dalian Shipyard and so on.
Of course, I am not a legend, and I may not be able to enter such a big enterprise, but I will not lose heart. Maybe I will go to the postgraduate entrance examination, or even work in an unknown unit to increase my life experience and learn from it. Because of my unwillingness, I am destined to jump ship and enter an enterprise that can at least satisfy me.
Article 4 Career planning for future development
I. Preface For everyone, occupation is effective in a certain period of time. If you don't make a reasonable and effective plan, you will waste your time and life. As I have been working, I have long known that if I don't make a career plan for myself, I can design my future well. Life and work will have no direction, just like a boat in the sea. If you get lost and don't know where to go, you can use your time efficiently and realize your life value.
Second, self-analysis.
Diligent and studious, sincere and practical, positive. Strong sense of responsibility, good at observation and serious work. Easy to communicate, able to face the work with a positive attitude and try my best to finish the tasks assigned by the company on time. Sometimes I am stubborn and lack of work experience. I know my own advantages and disadvantages.
Third, the deficiency and correction of self-evaluation.
When encountering unexpected things, you should keep a cool head, give yourself time to reflect, reflect more on yourself and try to make your thinking flexible, communicate more with people, consult colleagues and leaders and learn more.
Four. Life and career planning for the next five years
1, and strive to pass the junior and intermediate titles within one or two years.
Article 5 Career planning for future development
First, the development goal is to become a teacher who is excellent in business and teaching and can play a guiding role in teaching. Be good at thinking, and make your education and teaching level by going up one flight of stairs.
Be a teacher with diversified knowledge structure and unique teaching style.
In teaching and scientific research, we should change the psychology of "writing for the sake of writing", cultivate the habit of "writing essays on education and teaching" and accumulate practical materials for teaching and scientific research. Combine the research topics in education and teaching to form research results.
Second, the situation analysis
Advantage analysis:
At work, I go out early and come back late every day. When I get home, most of them are also trying to read books and prepare lessons. I finished my work seriously, diligently and silently. Although it is not outstanding, it is also fruitful.
1. As a middle-aged man, the child has already worked, and he and his wife have the same teaching experience and can learn from each other. They have less housework and can devote themselves to teaching. With abundant energy and many years' working experience in the Party School, I have formed keen political inspiration and solid knowledge. It has strong adaptability to the educational concept of continuous improvement and renewal.
2. Have a strong enterprising spirit, and can reflect on the successful experience and failure lessons of their classroom teaching against the usual educational theory, and gradually form a personalized teaching design.
3. Correct teaching attitude, study hard in teaching, pay attention to accumulating materials, pay attention to reflection in teaching, and publish some articles in municipal journals.
4. I can coordinate the relationship between society, family and school, and strengthen the communication among teachers, parents and students. There is a harmonious relationship between teachers and students in teaching. Students like my teaching methods, my personality and my personality.
Insufficient analysis:
I gradually feel that my development has entered a "platform period", just like being at the "limit" in long-distance running. My previous grades have fallen far behind, but various constraints and restrictions have slowed my progress.
First of all, I feel that I have relaxed myself in my study, replaced my study with work, and lost my development direction. Secondly, due to insufficient study and lack of in-depth thinking in my work, I can't creatively carry out my work, so that I gradually become an "abacus bead", and the leaders dial it and move it.
Secondly, the knowledge structure in learning is biased. This subject is strong, but other related knowledge, especially scientific and technological knowledge, is lacking.
I am still full of expectations for the profession of teachers and eager for effective teaching methods. Because I know my own shortcomings, I need to do every step in a down-to-earth manner. In view of my present situation, combined with the school's teacher professional development plan, I now make my personal three-year development plan to spur.
Third, self-development
study
1. Take no less than 28 classes each semester, especially municipal public classes. It is useless to listen to the classroom teaching of teachers at different levels, try to absorb the essence, and constantly reflect on and summarize the positive and negative experiences of teaching.
2. Continue to update your professional knowledge. "To give students a drop of water, you must have a bucket of water." Make reading and learning a habit. In modern society, information is changing with each passing day, knowledge is constantly updated, and various concepts are constantly improving. As a teacher, we must keep pace with the times to meet the requirements of the times. Usually read more theories about education and teaching, read more authoritative educational monographs, write your own reading experience into articles in time, accumulate strength and experience, discuss the gains and losses in education and teaching, and let your education and teaching level move closer to the direction of special teachers.
(2) Education
1, treat every student with respect, care and equality, face the whole, respect students' opinions and demands, and correctly understand and study individual special students.
2. Interested teachers. The art of education lies not in imparting skills, but in stimulating and awakening students' potential. I will try to change the teaching methods in classroom teaching, so as to promote the change of students' learning methods and make them willing to learn, learn in practice and learn in experience. In the future, we should diversify teaching methods, choose materials close to students' life and society, and try our best to teach in languages that students are familiar with.
(3) Teaching
1. In teaching, we should face all students, implement heuristic, inquiry and discussion teaching, guide students to learn actively, and respect and protect students' learning autonomy and enthusiasm. Create a democratic and harmonious atmosphere in the classroom, so that children can truly become the masters of learning.
2. When you meet young colleagues, you should give care and guidance in preparing lessons, attending classes, correcting homework, after-school counseling, examination evaluation, etc., help them master the essentials of routine education and teaching as soon as possible, conduct research and analysis on teaching materials, teaching methods and students' learning, and earnestly fulfill their responsibilities and obligations.
3. In teaching, we should teach students in accordance with their aptitude, aim at the goal, not blindly pursue the form, and carry out reasonable teaching design to realize teaching.
4. Learn from super teachers and successful teachers, learn their experience and teaching skills, and learn from each other's strengths. Insist on asking two questions before class: first, ask the teaching materials, study the teaching materials in depth, write a good teaching plan, and clarify the teaching priorities and difficulties; Second, ask yourself, "Are you ready? What are the difficulties in this class, how to break through and what to teach students? " What is the most effective method? Finally, reflect on the gains and losses of teaching and write essays after teaching.
5. Combining with the individual differences of students, take the method of hierarchical counseling education, and strive to make every student meet the requirements.
6. "Cherish students' unique feelings, experiences and understanding", with less "one word dominates power" and more "a hundred schools of thought contend" in teaching; In terms of teaching methods, we should be less hidebound and more eclectic, and strive to make students learn happily, confidently and intelligently.
7. Strive to implement the basic principles of political teaching, especially the principle of integrating theory with practice, so that students can fully understand the significance of studying politics, cultivate their broad horizons, care about the fate of the country and the nation, and have a strong sense of hardship. Pay attention to the combination of in-class and out-of-class so that students can use their knowledge flexibly and creatively.
(4) Teaching and scientific research
1, in the proposition of the test paper, especially the proposition above the district level, strive to achieve proposition innovation. Closer to the college entrance examination.
2. Pay attention to scientific research and report of results. Strive to write high-quality provincial journals and publish 1-2 papers every academic year. Attach importance to subject research. Systematically explore the theme teaching mode within three years, and strive to come up with effective methods that conform to the ideological and political teaching in Songjiang No.1 Middle School. Strive for an open class at or above the district level every year and actively reflect.
Three years is not long, short is not short, the teacher said ordinary is extraordinary. I believe that as long as you study hard and practice hard, everything can be achieved.
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