Research On Approachs Of Information Technology Enhancing The Professional Development Of Primary And Middle School Teachers

Teacher professional development is a concept that surmounts training. Teacher professional development includes the formal and informal learning methods. And, teacher professional development is different from teacher's specialization. The individual's initiative, positive and conscientious pursuit of growing up is emphasized. It is a ripe dynamic evolution. Teacher professional development satisfies the demand of educational undertaking and the education quality in our country, and it is also satisfied with the demand for teacher procession. Teacher professional development is an objective problem that can't be avoided.In the opinion of this thesis, teacher professional development should be combined with the teacher's teaching life, incorporating the information technology with the teacher's teaching, melted in the teacher's daily teaching, and playing an important role of supporting the professional development of teacher's constantly. Information technology is considered as an essential tool for teaching and life .So in order to study teacher professional development, we must see about the teaching process and track the growing up of teachers .At the same time, we should study how the information technology is used, how to make good use of it and make it convenient for the teachers. The thesis adopts the qualitative research method ,narrates the research object from the course of teaching and sums up the course of growing up of the teacher。The goal of teacher professional development is to make the teacher to be an expert on teaching; the main content is to develop the practical knowledge; the way is to use the social software.Then, we proposed that we can construct the BLOG platform. On this platform, we can conduct some practices. Supported by the information technology for teacher professional development. We have designed three kinds of possible ways that supported the tactics:Blog-based educational narration that supports the professional development of the teachers; Online reflective teaching that supports the professional development of the teachers;E-portfolio that supports the professional development of the teachers.Finally, the thesis proposed the suggestion on the practices of three kinds of ways and analysed the result of its applicationIn the opinion of this thesis, the technology that the teacher used should be incorporated with the whole teaching process and the content of the courses. We investigated the middle school teachers in ten middle schools in Jiangxi Province by using the questionnaire and emphatically investigated the possible factors of the information technology that support teacher professional development.