• DocumentCode
    3286992
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    School Cluster for Teacher Professional Development Based on ICT

  • Author

    Yihui Tang ; Yueliang Zhou ; Xian Li

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Teachers Educ., Zhejiang Normal Univ., Jinhua, China
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    15-17 May 2009
  • Firstpage
    608
  • Lastpage
    611
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    School cluster is a new model for teacher professional development (TPD) based on informationand communication technology (ICT); it focuses on the cooperation and communication among schools and teachers in fargoing distributed areas and different levels. The strategies for organization and learning service are the key points for implementation of teacher professional development activities in school cluster. As the new concepts and methods, teaching reflection, teaching process research, peers´ assistance and professional leading are used to realize TPD effectively. Following with the strategies and new methods, we are trying to make improvement of school-based training, resource sharing, collaborative research, as well as development of learning communities and school clusters.
  • Keywords
    computer based training; continuing professional development; groupware; teacher training; teaching; ICT; collaborative research; information-and-communication technology; learning service; resource sharing; school cluster; school-based training; teacher professional development; teaching process; Cities and towns; Collaboration; Communications technology; Education; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Information technology; Monitoring; Resource management; Technological innovation; ICT; learning community; school cluster; teacher professional development (TPD);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Technology and Applications, 2009. IFITA '09. International Forum on
  • Conference_Location
    Chengdu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3600-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IFITA.2009.108
  • Filename
    5232199