Strategies for Improving the Academic Literacy and Competence of Educationalist-oriented Teachers

Educationalist spirit with Chinese characteristics is the important embodiment of Chinese excellent cultural tradition. Education research serves as the "backbone" for teachers' growth from excellent teachers to educationalist-oriented teachers who need to improve their academic ability by grounding in practice, refining and condensing experience, into academic achievements to guide education and teaching and there by realize the qualitative leap of self-development. Academic competence in education research, as the key ability and dominant symbol of educationalist-oriented teachers, emphasizes academic reading, appreciation research and innovation. For educationalist-oriented teachers, academic research to some degree is a necessity, an ideal, a cultivation, a habit, an ability and a method. Academic literary, on the other hand, is also vital in realizing this transformation, which equally depends on academic research. Excellent teachers can delve into academic research and lean toward mastery, use reflection, coordinating diverse responsibilities, and skills of transforming, focusing, constructing, cooperating with professionals and languages to improve their academic competence. In addition, by systematically transforming daily practice into empirical knowledge, then distilling it into the principles guiding their teaching pedagogy, administration, and research, teachers under go profound professional transcendence-emerging as visionary, compassionate, erudite, and dedicated educationalist-oriented teachers.