Informative Reading:UNESCO Launches ICT Competency Standards for Teachers

UNESCO Launches ICT Competency Standards for Teachers. All Africa. Online January 2008. ...UNESCO guidelines for teachers to use information and communication technology (ICT) to improve education was yesterday presented to Education Ministers from more than 100 countries, and to the press, at the Moving Young Minds Conference in London. … Developed in cooperation with Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, as well as the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), the ICT Competency Standards for Teachers have been designed to help educational policy-makers and curriculum developers identify the skills teachers need to harness technology in the service of education. … a tool that will help policy makers and teacher training developers plan their use of information and communication technologies," the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, said. "These standards consist of modules that will help trainers prioritise their needs and design training curricula adapted to specific requirements and resources…

ICT Competency Standards for Teachers: Policy Framework. 15 pages http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001562/156210E.pdf

ICT Competency Standards for Teachers: Modules. 13 pages http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001562/156207e.pdf

ICT Competency Standards for Teachers: Implementation Guidline v 1.0. 17 pageshttp://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001562/156209E.pdf