摘要
班主任工作是学校工作的重要组成部分，班主任是中学德育工作的生力军。班主任工作的质量将对中学生的成长产生重要影响，这已成为人们的共识。但是，真正从理论上对班主任的工作进行系统研究的还很少见。进入知识经济时代，社会对高素质人才的需求越来越强烈，素质教育替代应试教育成为历史的必然。身处一线的中学班主任在推进素质教育的过程中，发挥着致关重要的作用，他们素质的高低直接关系到素质教育的成败。那么，班主任应从哪些方面来提高自身的素质才能适应形势的发展和工作的需要?作者以马列主义的相关理论作指导，结合自己多年的工作实践，运用思想政治教育学的理论和方法，对中学班主任的工作定位，应具备的基本素质及其培养作了一些探讨，全文共四个部分：
第一部分：提高中学班主任素质的重要意义。它分为两个小部分；一是论述班主任在中学教育过程中的地位及作用，本部分中将对班主任所处的地位进行准确定位。二是论述提高班主任素质的必要性，主要从时代的角度，培养现代人才的角度，班主任自身发展和增强班主任教育、管理效果以及班主任在推行素质教育中的地位的角度加以论述。
第二部分：新时期班主任的职责及其应具备的基本素质。此部分在前一部分对班主任的地位作出定位的基础上，对班主任的工作职责作出了相庆的定位，重在说明班主任的工作职责和面临的新挑战，并在此基础上引出新时期班主任应具备的基本素质。如过硬的思想政治素质，合理的知识结构，深厚的道德素质和人格品质，较强的能力素质以及健康的身心素质等。
第三部分：文章对班主任队伍的素质现状进行概述，既肯定了存在的优势，又揭示了存在的问题，提出如果不迅速提高班主任的整体素质，就不能适应中学素质教育的
新要求。
第四部分：文章将从内因、外因两个方面提出提高班主任素质的途径。从班主任
自身来说，要自觉加强与其他行业、其他部门思想工作者的交流，及时收集学生反馈信
息，加强在职业余学习，尤其应加强思想政治理论，现代科学技术知识、教育学卜心理
学及相关法律常识等方面的学习。从外部因素讲，教育主管部门，各中学都应加强对班
主任队伍的管理，给各位班主任创造各种形式的学习进修机会，多方面为班主任提高素
质创造条件。
The role of a teacher in charge of a class is an important part of a middle school's daily administration, and they are the fresh force in the moral education of the middle school. And their performance will affect student's growth, which has been well known. In fact, there are few theoretical systematic studies on the role of a teacher in charge of a class. As time goes into the knowledge economy period, the need for well-qualified personnel in the society is increasing greatly, thus the transformation from education aimed at exams to aiming at well quality is an inevitable trend.
So the teachers in charge of classes in middle school, whose job are connected with students directly; play a key role in teaching, and their own performances directly affect the success of quality education. Then what kinds of ways can help a teacher to improve his performance to fit in with the development of society and needs in their job? Under the guide of theories concerned with Marxism, combining my own many years teaching experience with theories and practices of ideological politics education, I will discuss, in the following essay, how to possess the basic qualities to be a qualified middle school teacher who are in charge of a class. The passage is divided into four parts:
The first part: the significance of improving the quality of a middle school teacher in change of a class. It has two sections. One is the role and importance of a teacher in charge of a class in the process of middle school teaching, and in this section, the key role of theirs will be clearly defined. The other section is to expound the necessity of improving their performances from three points of view, first is the trend of the times. Second is training the modern personnel developing themselves and strengthening the education aimed at teachers who are in charge of the classes. Third is the results of daily administration and the key role
of theirs in promoting quality education.
The second part: the duty and basic quality of a teacher in charge of a class in new period. In this part, their duty will be defined clearly based on the former part's explanation. I aims at describing the duty new challenge they are facing. Then it will be concluded by presenting what qualities they should possess. Such as the perfect mastery of ideologies politics, rational knowledge structure. Qualified ability and healthy body and mind etc.
The third part: the essay gives a general introduction of present performance of teachers who are in charge of the classes. On one hand, it presents a positive view about existing advantages: On the other hand, it reveals the problems that exist in practices. If it fails to improve teacher's qualities rapidly, it is impossible to meet the new requirements in middle school ideological politics education.
The fourth part: the essay presents the solutions to the improvement of teachers' qualities from internal and external aspects. On their own position, they should actively strengthen the communication with other persons who are also engaged in ideological politics education in other fields and collect the feedback information from the students. At the same time, they should engage themselves in further part-time studies, especially in ideological politics theory, modern scientific technology, pedagogy, psychology and general knowledge about law etc. From the external elements, the superior education sectors and middle school should take effective administration on the teachers who are in charge of the classes. Furthermore, they should provide chances for teachers to receive all sorts of studies and training and good conditions from various aspects for them to improve the qualities.
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