ICT-enhanced teacher development model
16.02.2012Meeting the challenges confronting teacher development in Africa requires well thought-out approaches that benefit Member States maximally. These approaches should also reflect the current thinking in the fields or domains they are dealing with. One such approach is the ICT-enhanced Teacher Development Model, known for short as ICTeTD Model, developed by the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA).
The ICTeTD Model is grounded in the belief that teaching has its own unique knowledge base, which, in the 21st century, is the technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK). While it is not unusual now to find ICT courses in teacher education programs in Africa, ICTeTD is grounded in IICBA’s strong belief that professional teacher development should not only go beyond programs that merely focus on training teachers in the operation of computers and ICT literacy per se, but should plan to work actively towards enabling African teachers to master ICT as an effective tool to improve teaching and learning.
ICTeTD regards ICT as a real opportunity for teachers of all phases and subjects to rethink fundamental pedagogical issues alongside the approaches to learning that students need to apply in classrooms. ICTeTD is not simply about reversioning traditional teaching. Rather, it deals with the need for Member States to transform their teaching force into a technology literate and innovative worker. ICTeTD recognizes that for teachers to use ICT effectively and innovatively, they need to understand in greater depth the content of the subject matter they teach, the subject related pedagogy, and the interactions of all these in a given context.
It is thus believed that the Model will serve as a useful guide for IICBA’s interventions in African teacher education systems in the area of ICT integration in education.
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