The Application of the Interconnected Model of Professional Growth and the Change of Teacher Role in the Development Process of Expert Teacher

The cultivation of expert teacher symbolizes the improvement of educational quality. In recent years, the research of expert teacher has been numerous in the education field, but more emphasis is placed on the comparison of the characteristics of expert and novice teacher, including knowledge construction and teaching practice. This article focuses on the development of expert teacher with the Interconnected Model of Professional Growth (IMPG), to help expert teacher to develop professionally more effectively. This paper proposes three application strategies of the "IMPG", which include: 1. Expanding the influencing factors of "environmental change" with the internet. 2. Expanding the "change sequence" of personal domain with the learning community. 3. Building the stronger "growth networks" with action research. After the application of this model, the analysis of expert teachers in this paper should appear in four new roles, which include "learning expert", "research expert", "cooperative expert", and "expert in physical and virtual teaching", so that teachers' professional growth will be more open, diverse and concrete.