Career development needs, teachers’ evaluation and incentive mechanisms in traditional Chinese medicine colleges: Basis for training and development plan

The development of higher education has put forward higher requirements for the comprehensive literacy of university teachers.Traditional Chinese medicine education holds a unique position globally, and the role of teachers in traditional Chinese medicine colleges has become increasingly important.The career development of this group is crucial to the quality and sustainable development of traditional Chinese medicine education.Improving teacher evaluation and incentive mechanisms is an important way to enhance the professional development of traditional Chinese medicine teachers.This study adopts a descriptive research method, aiming to deeply explore the correlation between teacher career development needs, teacher evaluation, and incentive measures.A total of 474 respondents from three undergraduate Chinese medicine universities were involved in the study.Resultsshowed that majority of the respondents were female, 35-44 years old, master's degree holder and serving the university for 1-5 years.They agreed on all the indicators under teacher career development needs giving high regard to teacher career satisfaction.Also, the respondents all agreed on all the items under teacher evaluation giving more importance to teachers' morality and style.In terms of teacher incentive mechanism, the respondents agreed on all the indicators giving high regard to career identity.Furthermore, there exists significant difference in teacher career development and teacher evaluation when respondents were grouped according to age.Likewise, there exists a highly significant relationship among the three variables.This indicates that college teachers' career development needs are shaped by individual aspirations and institutional goals.Also, evaluation systems should align with teachers' career development needs to provide meaningful feedback and guidance.Finally, incentive mechanisms can be designed to motivate teachers to meet specific career development goals.In the end, a training and development plan for traditional Chinese medicine college teachers was proposed.Therefore, this study proposes several suggestions for the professional development of teachers, calling on society, schools, and individuals to work together to build a complete teacher development system.These suggestions help promote the professional growth of teachers, promote their comprehensive development, Liu, J. 150 Consortia Academia Publishing (A partner of CollabWritive Publishing House) improve the quality of education and teaching in schools, and enhance their research level.It has a certain standardization significance and has reference value and radiation effect on the development planning of teachers in similar universities.