Research on the Necessity and Methods of Thinking Skill of High School Teachers in County Areas under the Background of Economic and Demographic Pressures

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jhet.202515339

Author(s)

Yang Wang1,2, Song Xiao2, Lijuan Wen2, Tianmei Lu2, Liangyi Cao2, Fenghua Xiong2,*

Affiliation(s)

1School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China 2Dangyang No. 1 High School, Yichang, Hubei, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Economic development and population size are the two core issues of county development at present. These two factors have an important impact on the development of county high school education. Although previous studies have put forward some suggestions on the construction of high school, they rarely explain the problems existing in the development of county high school from the perspective of economy and population. This paper took the teachers at different ages in Dangyang No. 1 High School as the research object, aims to explore the impact of county economy and population development on thinking skill of teacher, and puts forward methods to improve thinking skill of teacher for future development. We used Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and Regression Analysis to explore methods that enable teachers to have sustainable thinking abilities through interviews and questionnaire surveys. Our results found that teachers in the under-30s group have stronger initial thinking skill, have more ideas in the face of economic and demographic pressure. Teachers in the 50-60 age group tend to solve problems with the help of colleagues and leaders rather than leaving the original living surroundings. Our results indicated that improving salary level and respecting the differences in teaching methods among teachers will significantly improve thinking skill of them. Our results are of great importance for mechanism exploration of influencing factor on the thinking skill of county high school teachers, and provide theoretical support for the better study quality in county high school.

Keywords

Thinking Skill; County High School Teacher; Economic Development; Population Size

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