Information Technology and Professional Development of Secondary School English Teachers - A Case Study in Shandong Province

Author

Zhang, Jianhua

Author_Institution

Coll. of Foreign Languages, Qufu Normal Univ., Qufu

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

7-8 March 2009

Firstpage

882

Lastpage

885

Abstract

Taking professional development of secondary school English teachers (SSETs) as focus, a case study is made in Shandong province. According to the analysis of the research, the non-optimistic state and imbalance of professional development to SSETs in different districts are revealed, and the common problems - time-limitation, non-systematic continuing professional development (CPD) and non-guidance in professional development - are discussed. To change the situation and solve the problems, a feasible three-stage model of SSETs´ professional development is established on the basis of the application of practical and effective information technology forms as blog, online chat, e-mail, hoping to provide some enlightenment to the education of SSETspsila professional development.

Keywords

computer based training; continuing professional development; teacher training; SSET professional development; Shandong province; continuing professional development; e-mail; information technology; nonoptimistic state; online chat; secondary school-English teacher; teacher training; Cities and towns; Computer science education; Continuing education; Continuing professional development; Data analysis; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Engineering profession; Information technology; Internet; SSET; information technology; professional development; research; the three-stage model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education Technology and Computer Science, 2009. ETCS '09. First International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3581-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETCS.2009.460

Filename

4959173