IV. TRAINING STRATEGIES, STANDARDS AND ONLINE COURSES
Teacher Standards for Competency in ICT
Recommended:
*** Computer proficiency for teachers
This is a detailed paper from the Ministerial Advisory Council on the Quality of Teaching in Australia, defining the computer standards expected of teachers, describing training initiatives, discussing ethical issues and providing extensive resources.
*** Educational technology standards and performance indicators
for all teachers
The ISTE National Educational Standards for Teachers, which focuses on pre-service teacher education, outlines the fundamental concepts, knowledge, skills, and attitudes trainee teachers should be expected to have acquired before achieving accreditation.
Other Useful Sites:
Talent - ICT teacher competencies
These are ICT competencies for teacher training and details of modules established by the UK Teacher Training Agency (TTA) and by Lewisham Education Authority.
Advancing excellence in technological literacy: student assessment, professional development, and programme standards (AETL)
The section on professional development standards in this document clearly sets out criteria for each level (1 to 7) and what is required by professional development providers to help teachers to advance through levels
Teacher Learning Technologies Competencies
The Australian TLTC project aimed at developing uniform standards in ICT literacy throughout the country. This site contains two studies from the TLTC, a background paper stating the project coordinators’ position on teachers’ ICT standards, and a discussion paper, which identifies and describes teacher competency initiatives.
Teachers’ ICT skills and knowledge needs
This report is based on recent research in Scotland, and presents teachers' views of the present stage of development in their schools, their needs and priorities for further development, and the factors which help or hinder them in their attempts to make effective use of ICTs. Teacher competency is examined and discussed in terms of: practical competence in handling software and hardware; and competence in using ICT for specific purposes.