[[alternative]]A Study of Junior High School Teachers' Professional development

[[abstract]]The main purpose of this research is to investigate the current situation of Taipei and Ping-tong’s junior high school teachers’ professional development, and to explore whether teachers’ various background variable would influence their level of professional development or not. The objectives of this research are as follow: First, to explore the connotation of junior high school teachers' professional development. Secondly, to investigate the current situation of junior high school teachers’ professional development. Thirdly, to compare the difference level of professional development through teachers’ various background variable. Fourthly, to study the factors those influence teachers’ professional development. Fifthly, to scheme the effective strategy to promote teachers’ professional development. Sixthly, to draw up the specific suggestions according to the outcome of research. We adopt the literature review and the document analysis on theories and background level as the basis of the compilation of questionnaire. “Teachers’ professional development questionnaire” is the major research tool. The questionnaires are sent to the junior high school teachers of Taipei and Ping-tong. The total samples are 31schools and 900 teachers. The number of valid returned questionnaires is 598, which is 66.4﹪of the total samples. We conduct the statistical data analysis by using SPSS10.0 for Windows. Besides, we propose our recommendation for the draft of teachers’ professional development system and future research directions. Keyword: profession、professional development、difference between town and country、junior high school’s teacher