IV. TRAINING STRATEGIES, STANDARDS AND ONLINE COURSES
Best Practices
Recommended:
*** Teacher training and technology: An overview of case studies and lessons learned
The World Bank supported case studies of various international teacher training and technology programmes, hoping to discern good practices and effective strategies to share with other education initiatives. This paper outlines the findings of three such studies – in Armenia, China and Singapore.
*** Learning to teach with technology: From integration to actualization
This presents a framework for learning to teach with technology in carefully graded phases, from learning the subject matter in a technology-rich environment, to examining exemplary curriculum materials and working collaboratively to integrate appropriate applications of technology.
Other Useful Sites
Integrating ICT in Teacher Training
This article by the International Development Research Centre shows the lessons learned from the case study in Kenya Technical Teachers College in training teacher educators in the integration of ICTs in the classroom.
ICT in Professional Development of Teachers in Thailand: The Lead-Teacher Model
This page describes how Thailand is undergoing with ICT integration in Education. The project described is nation-wide implemented by Ministry of Education by establishing the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology.