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Futuristic models of teacher training through comparative study of teacher competency standard for ICT in education
Juan Jose Contreras Castillo
Abstract
During the course of this research, we searched for standard in teacher competency for the different economies in the Asia-Pacific region. We found information about them in several documents contained in the UNESCO and in the Ministry of Education of each economy. After that, we started looking for common strategies to propose a model for teacher training with ICT and in the use and introduction of ICT in school. We found that there are a lot of coincidences, specifically that teachers should be competent in a variety of software and technological tools appropriated to the topic they teach and the students’ age, assess the software and technological tools relevance to the topic they teach and their potential to be used in class, use the computers in a constructive way and to prepare and utilize work plans that incorporate the use of technology. But despite all the advances and recommendations about ICT introduction in teacher training, we still lack of a common model that allows us to exchange and share information regarding this issue even within the Asia-Pacific region. We tried to put some of this competency in one single place so that people can access and consider them we developing a teacher training or ICT introduction in classrooms program
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