How Does the Teaching Innovation Environment Affect the Professional Development of Teachers? —Analysis on the Mediating Effect of Teaching Innovation Ability
In order to explore the environmental impact mechanism of teaching innovation, this study selected 756 primary and secondary school teachers for a questionnaire survey. It found that teaching innovation environment has direct effects on teaching innovation ability, teacher efficacy and professional identity. Teaching innovation ability partially mediates the relationship between teaching innovation environment and teacher efficacy, as well as the relationship between teaching innovation environment and professional identity. Teaching innovation ability also negatively moderates the relationship between teaching innovation environment and teacher efficacy. Moreover, teacher efficacy has a negative effect on professional identity. According to the conclusions of the study, it is suggested that relevant departments should fulfill their responsibilities, create a good educational ecological environment conducive to the development of teachers, and promote the integration of traditional educational culture and the modern educational science system, in order to improve the status of teachers’ career development.