POLICY VISION for ICT TPD

1. POLICY VISIONfor ICT TPD

2. Vision • The vision statement looks to the future and is written in broad terms. • This will form the basis of the ICT-TPD Policy framework and thus needs be thought out carefully. • The vision should be strong and shared • Aligned to the overall National Vision for ICT in Education

3. Tools to Assist in Developing the ICT-TPD Policy Vision • Vision 20xx – The National Development of the Government of your country • The National Education Plan • The National ICT in Education Policy if there is one • Country Programme Analysis – if there is one • ICT-TPD Matrix This matrix toolkit provides guidelines and a progression development path for national institutions and schools • Models for Teacher Professional Development This document presents examples of models and best practices in Teacher Professional Development (TPD) for ICT in Education

4. Policy Vision for ICT TPD Reflects the broad human, social, & environmental betterment in which the framework is situated and to which it is contributing

5. Example Vision Statement Rwandan teachers have the capacity to develop innovative classroom environments using ICT tools that will motivate and engage their students, helping them to think critically and creatively and to communicate their thinking to others. Teachers and students have opportunities to access a world of information and resources through the Internet and virtual educational repositories and portals. Rwandan communities are being empowered with the skills that will equip them to participate on a competitive footing in the economic, research and development fields of the 21st global information society.

6. Vision statement Imagine that in 3-5 years the ICT-TPD national programme has been extremely successful. What changes will it have helped to bring about? What are your teachers and students doing differently? What have they achieved? How has the policy framework contributed to educational access, quality and capacity building?In essence, what would total success look like?

7. Goals and objectives How can the policy framework best contribute to or support the achievement of the vision? What areas does it need to work in to promote and support the realization of the vision? What does it need to do in these areas? What does it need to accomplish in these areas?

8. Example Goals and Objectives The major goal of the JFIT-Teacher Training Project is to build national capacity in the effective use of ICT in education through initial training of teachers and professional development of existing teachers and facilitators. This goal is to be achieved by effectively utilizing and fully infusing ICT in all aspects of the educational process, thereby effecting a paradigm shift from teacher-centred teaching to ICT-enabled student-centred interactive and independent learning.

9. Example Goals and Objectives • to improve teachers’ competence and confidence, through both pre-service education and in-service training, in order to fully integrate or infuse ICT in all aspects of the educational process and to transform the classroom from teacher-centred teaching to ICT-assisted interactive and independent learning; • to identify, create, and disseminate regional, locally-specific pedagogies and models of technology utilization and technology-pedagogy integration in diversified instructional environments; and • to develop and put into operation a regional online teacher resource base and a regional offline network of centres of excellence in order to share innovative practices and resources and to help in ongoing professional development using ICT for educational purposes.