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Tim Brosnan Institute of Education University of London

Training in ICT with ICT: lessons from a distance-learning in-service programe for science teachers. Presentation at NUTES-UFRJ 12th March 2002. Tim Brosnan Institute of Education University of London. The policy background.

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Tim Brosnan Institute of Education University of London

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  1. Training in ICT with ICT: lessons from a distance-learning in-service programe for science teachers Presentation at NUTES-UFRJ 12th March 2002 Tim Brosnan Institute of Education University of London

  2. The policy background • Greatly increased central control of both curricula and lesson content • Concerted programme to use ICT to raise educational attainment • ‘Standards’ set for all new teachers in the use of ICT in their lessons • Need to train existing teachers to the same Standards

  3. The programme: to train existing teachers in the use of ICT • £250 million (850,000,000 BRL) • Funded from the National Lottery • Subject specific training in both ICT skills and pedagogy • Many ‘approved providers’ • Courses subject to inspection by Ofsted • Individual teachers to choose their provider • ‘Reward’ of subsidised computer

  4. What can be learnt from the NOF programme? • Issues of policy • Issues of practice

  5. Issues of policy: • Not isolated courses but a coherent programme • Distance learning is not a cheap option • What is learnt must be capable of being used • Not an end, only a beginning • 'Let a thousand flowers bloom' • Evidence not rhetoric required

  6. Issues of practice • Needs analysis - variety of pathways • Use and develop existing expertise • Resources do not make courses • Focus on capability not (just) skills • ICT should change practices not principles • Pedagogy of delivery must match pedagogy of rhetoric • What is learnt must be capable of being used • Not a one-way-street

  7. End note - why bother? What is the evidence that ICT raises pupil attainment in science?

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