ICT for Innovative Science Teachers

At the present time there is a widespread desire amongst policy makers in the European Union to promote the use of ICT to assist learning at all levels of education.  Many national agencies have identified the need for improving the quality and effectiveness of initial and in-service teacher training related to ICT innovations.

The ICT for IST project will be built upon the project IT for US (Information Technology for Understanding Science - 119001-CP-1-2004-1-PL-Comenius-C21) which resulting materials are ideally placed to fulfil this need; they are directed at teachers and teacher trainers and explicitly offer support to help teachers develop their skills in using ICT in their teaching.

The ICT for IST project aims to broaden the scope of application of the ‘IT for US' training pack with the view to increasing the international transfer of the teacher training agenda contained therein. It proposes to extend the teaching modules, to develop more ideas for implementation strategies, to increase the flexible use of existing modules across different software systems.

The results of the ICT for IST will offer new approaches to teacher training supported by the instructional material, online resources and demonstration videos for use on courses for teachers.

The consortium includes four former partners (PL, CY, NL, UK) in the project and two new partners (AT, CZ). The fields of partners’ expertise are complementary; some partners are curriculum developers with extensive experience in innovations with ICT, some with extensive experience in teacher training and the pedagogical applications of ICT in science teaching.

The short term impact of the project will be on the local level as partners try out the developed materials during the teacher training courses in their countries. The long term impact will be achieved via offering the resources on-line to a wider audience of science teachers and teacher trainers.

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