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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 21 On information technology to support the professional development of teachers: From Ideal to the Real 【Abstract】 comprehensive understanding of information technology in the role of teacher professional development, for the majority of teachers to learn and to use information technology to promote their professional development is of great significance. Based on years of research and practice, discusses the information technology in promoting the professionalism of teachers to enhance and accelerate the process of teacher professional development, promoting reform of professional development to improve teacher performance, education reform and the promotion of education lead to changes in the five aspects of the concept of role, and that the information in the education vertical advance of today, researchers must complete the four changes as soon as possible - ought to go from the Real, from research to describe the relationship between research and process and mechanism, from a qualitative empirical research into research, from research to verify the design of. 【Papers Keywords: information technology; teacher professional development; should be contingent; the Real recent years, the information environment, the professional development of teachers common focus of world attention. States regard the information technology teacher professional development as a new topic. UNESCO, “seminar a region Asia-Pacific Educational Technology 2006” as the theme of the annual “ICT and the teacher professional development.” Researchers attending special attention “ICT and curriculum integration, teacher training and professional development, innovative practice, the use of ICT to improve teacher training and professional development action plan case” three areas. Jiao Jianli et al (2009) to support the professional development of teachers is defined as “technology (especially information technology) for the environment, means, ways, means an