Study On Information Technology Teacher's Professional Development Of Urban Junior High School In Yanbian Area

IT teacher's professional development is a complete new concept, which involves in both IT education and teacher's professional development. On the one hand, with the development of the information of basic education and deepening of the new round of course reform, IT education has become more and more important in basic education in our country. The most important case is IT teacher is the key to developing IT education. On the other hand, the research on the teacher's professional development started later than other countries, there is seldom research on IT teacher professional development. So, it is very important and urgent to make some research on it.Yanbian area gradually had the information technology education listed in the middle and primary school plan since 1998, for many years, the information technology education of junior high school had a very big development. At present, all the middle school in the area have made the information technology lesson as a compulsory course, the group of IT teachers as well as individual teacher continue to develop.This study first formulated the "The question of Information Technology in Yanbian area junior high school teacher professional development present situation","The question of the factors which impact the Information Technology in Yanbian area junior high school teacher professional development". For promoting the 84 junior high schools of 8 cities, a total of 117 teacher has carried on the questionnaire investigation, the result applied SPSS17.0 were statistically analyzed. Analyzes the differences between the professional development of junior high school IT teacher which work in urban and rural area as well as Korean and Han., analyzes the influencing factors of junior high school IT teachers'professional development according to different stages, analyze the differences of each factor which influences different stages of junior high school IT teachers'professional development.At last, looking for some great needs in different stages, and explore measures which could help them to promote professional development.Through the survey and the data of statistical analysis, we get the following conclusions:1,The level of the IT teacher's professional development tends to above normal.2,The level of the IT teacher's professional development attitude tends to above normal, while the level of the IT teacher's professional development behavior is not high enough.3,There are differences between the professional development level of junior high school IT teachers which work in urban and rural area as well as Korean and Han.4,There are significant differences between the junior high school IT teachers' Professional knowledge,Professional ability and Professional development behavior in Yanbian area.5,The influences of personal factors,family factors,school factors,the professional organizations factors and social factors which impact the IT teacher's professional development is different in different stages.According to main influencing factors to each phase of IT teachers'professional development, this paper offers following suggestions:1,For Beginner stage IT teachers, the school shall adjust measures to local conditions to select effective forms of pre-service education, to lay the foundation for teachers'smooth development.On the other hand, schools should make full use of the famous exemplary function, can use the method taught help with mentoring to the teacher to get development.2,For Skilled beginner stage IT teachers, to inspire them by working environment and achievements to promote their development.3,For Competent IT teachers, they should pay special attention to the importance of their families, meanwhile, the families of Competent teachers should concern with their influence to the teachers,and provide convenience for the teachers'professional development.4,For Capable IT teachers, to create opportunities to cooperate with a few schools within the city or the state for networking, or cooperate with the university to do teaching research can also promote their professional development by participating in professional meeting.