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Training 35,000 Trainers and Educators A Danish national initiative

The Pedagogical ICT licence. Training 35,000 Trainers and Educators A Danish national initiative. Current pedagogical ICT licences. Gymnasie-IT. Skole-IT. SFO-IT. SOSU-IT. EUD-IT. Sprog-center-IT. Sund-IT. Seminarie-IT. Key notions and principles. no ICT without a pedagogical rationale

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Training 35,000 Trainers and Educators A Danish national initiative

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  1. The Pedagogical ICT licence Training 35,000 Trainers and EducatorsA Danish national initiative

  2. Current pedagogical ICT licences Gymnasie-IT Skole-IT SFO-IT SOSU-IT EUD-IT Sprog-center-IT Sund-IT Seminarie-IT April, 2002

  3. Key notions and principles • no ICT without a pedagogical rationale • development, process and teamwork are the key issues • adequate, contemporary and relevant pedagogical ICT in-service training of teachers • ICT-integration at all levels across all subjects • distribution across the country • not compulsory, not an exam but a recognized certificate April, 2002

  4. Organisation and implementation Distributed network – 7 ICT-licences in operation Political board Administration, end user hotline and support 160 course providers Content update 800 tutors ~2,000 courses 35,000 participants 20,000 driving licences issued the rest are teachers in process April, 2002

  5. How is this possible? Development - central public funding: primarily the Ministry of Education and Uni•C Implementation some central funding supports the implementation implementation is the responsibility of local government and schools teachers receive a reduction in teaching hours to participate April, 2002

  6. Contents – Health care further ed. 5-6 months April, 2002

  7. Contents – Health care further ed. • Compulsory modules - IT and education, communication and the Internet, the production of course material 2. Optional modules • The use of presentations • Production of websites • Digital image processing • Flexible learning • Multimedia • Spreadsheets and statistics software • Evaluation • Databases • Producing and working with texts • Educational resources on the web 3. Compulsory – ICT in project based learning April, 2002

  8. Contents – School-IT (compulsory ed) E - Cross curricular projects G – How to use databases H - ICT in school development A - Introduction B - Creative writing C - Communicaton, information D - Work with spreadsheets F -Multimedia and websites 5-6 months April, 2002

  9. Written material articles exercises, platform independent instructions for the test papers CD-ROM for absolute beginners Material for the course • Conference system • Web-site • articles, links • platform dependent • IT manuals • Administrative tools April, 2002

  10. Course concept • Courses are preferably school based • Introductory day with tutor – the rest is e-learning • Work in teacher teams • Duration: minimum 5-6 months • During the course teams must write 8 examples of instructional design to obtain the ‘License”. April, 2002

  11. Does it work? • Two extensive independent studies document that • Dropout rates are less than 10% • More than 80% find the course relevant or very relevant • Long term effects have been monitored and rated highly positive • In three years more than 35,000 educators have participated April, 2002

  12. ICT for everybody – the future of Denmark • increase the usage of ICT in education • - customize training to the needs of the individual • - realize the potential of every student • - focus on learning with ICT, not about ICT – unless you are to be an ICT-professional • train the teachers in integrating ICT into daily teaching

  13. ICT for everybody – the future of Denmark • reduce the lack of highly-skilled ICT professionals - increase the number of ICT graduates at university and other higher level - increase the in-service training of the ICT workforce - increase the usage of flexible learning methods April, 2002

  14. Educational Opportunities Teachers’ Qualifications • Learn with IT in Folkeskolen • IT, exact subject goals and the Central Skills and Competencies. • IT and greater amplitude in Folke- • skolen. • IT and increased dialogue between • the parties of Folkeskolen School-IT School based leisure time facilities-IT ITMF ITMF Secreta- riat Secreta-riat College of Education-IT "Best practice" and ITMF Secreta- riat learning materials for Danish Mini-stry of Edu-cation Central Skills and Competencies and exact goals in-service training Purchasing of television program-mes The School Network Connecting schools to the network DR Learning Danish Mini-stry of Edu-cation UNI•C Mobile and wireless learning Other Television providers Distribution of responsibility April, 2002

  15. Who can apply ? Schools in network and municipalities – in collaboration with researchers, publishers, IT specialists, and other partners. Municipality Expertise: Pedagogy School School School Research School School Publisher School IT & Media School School Others School The municipality model April, 2002

  16. Who can apply ? Schools in network and municipalities – in collaboration with researchers, publishers, IT specialists, and other partners Municipality Municipality Expertice: School School Pedagogy School School Research School School- Publisher network IT & Media School School School Others .. School School Municipality Municipality The schools in network model April, 2002

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