Jinjin Liang, Yong Nie, and Tianjiao Zhang
Abstract
To promote teacher’s professional development, network training is proposed and served as an effective method with the help of information technology. Network training breaks through the limitation of time and space in the traditional teachers’ training mode, and facilitates carrying out the learning and communication anytime and anywhere. This article constructs the "Double Teachers Teaching" mode based on the idea of community, which defines double teachers as "Excellent Teacher" from famous school and "Local Teacher" from experimental school. The whole training process is carried out on a network platform with two core modules called “double teachers’ classroom” and “double teachers research”. Centered on Local teacher’ practical needs, high-quality condensed community learning resources are generates based on the double teachers’ cooperation and communication. The "Double Teachers Teaching" mode integrates the advantages of famous teachers and network platform, facilitate effective online training using targeted community resources. We applied the designed mode to a middle school, attach importance on the strategies of people, platform, culture and evaluation, and used questionnaire survey to investigate teachers’ competency. Results analyzed by SPSS demonstrates that this mode contributes to teachers’ development, it improves teachers’ ability of student analysis, teaching objectives, teaching process, and teaching methods.
Keywords: Professional development; Network training; Information technology; Double Teachers Teaching; Community; Excellent teacher; Local teacher; Community resources.