ICT-Curriculum - Recommendations for teacher pre-service and in-service. ICT is widely used in all professions and in everydays life.

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1 ICT-Curriculum - Recommendations for teacher pre-service and in-service training. (KCTR ) ICT is widely used in all professions and in everydays life. Therefore it is inevitable to integrated ICT into school life, at all levels from kindergarten to upper secondary schools. ICTs have become important not only as tools to create teaching materials but also integrated into teaching. ICT has evolved into a core content of education alongside reading, writing and mathematics. To attain an integration into all subjects the use of ICT has to be taught in teacher pre-service and in teacher in-service education. 1. Main objectives Teachers beside teaching knowledge are able to accompagny the learning process of students and to guide them. - Teachers have to be familiar with the didactical and methodological issues in ICT practice; - Teachers should use competently ICT and integrate it in their teaching. - Teachers know strategies to integrate the knowledge of students into their teaching. - Teachers should use computers with a basic understanding of technology's principles and methodology. - Teachers should know how to collect, evaluate, use and edit information. - Teachers know how to communicate in virtual worlds ('netiquette').

2 - Teachers should use techniques and methods from information sciences to solve problems in their jobs where appropriate. - Teachers should be highly flexible to adapt to changing environments and should follow and anticipate the development of ICT. - Teachers are able to lead, realise and accompany an ICT-based project. 2. Recommendations for teaching contents Kindergarten - Teachers should be able to organise ICT-based lessons and have the necessary didactical skills to integrate computers consciously in their teaching. - Teachers offer the opportunity to all pupils to play or work with ICT. - Teachers learn to critically choose software packages for their teaching. Primary schools - Teachers learn to integrate ICT into their teaching. - Teachers are able to analyse software packages critically and use them in correlation with the curriculum. - Teachers practice the use of ICT during their studies: video-conferences with other teacher training centres and universities,

3 to individually enhance their foreign language skills, presenting projects on school web sites. - Teachers get to know examples of ICT integration and reflect on their experiences (whether they teach traditional subjects or new ones) by: working alone or in teams, using the computer as a presentation tool, doing their assignments with a computer. Lower Secondary At this level of teaching the use of subject-specific software becomes more and more important. Additionally, teachers at this level have to: - know have to be able to solve minor technical problems; - use networks to enhance their teaching; - use ICT as a tool and as a learning medium and as a creativity tool within teaching; - be trained in project/task-oriented activities that include ICT; - use ICT to make presentations on the Internet or in front of their classes; - learn to find other classes for learning partnerships; - practice the use of ICT during their studies:

4 video-conferences with other teacher training centres and universities, to individually enhance their foreign language skills, - presenting projects on school web sites. - act as moderators in bulletins boards, forums and video conferences to gain experience in computer mediated communication; - reflect on the impact of ICT on society; - be informed about data protection and copyright and use ICT appropriately; - know how to deal with unwanted contents of the Internet. Upper secondary This level includes a variety of school types: high school, specialised training centres, professional schools, resource centres for trainees in industry and construction, etc. The following recommendations have to be adapted according to school types. Future teachers at this level have to: - understand and use networks and netware; - find and evaluate software for specific subjects; - use specific software and applications; - put together hardware and computer-systems; - use standard software-packages in their basic teaching;

5 - practice the use of ICT during their studies: video-conferences with other teacher training centres and universities, to individually enhance their foreign language skills, - presenting projects on school web sites. - work in a task/project-oriented way; - be trained in various IT applications such as: simulations, demos, hypertext- and computer-based training, searching and evaluating information, making internet presentations and presentations with special tools; - be trained in professional task-specific programming. Vers. 2/pdf

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