“The ICT Competency Standards for Teachers provide 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, reflecting UNESCO’s conviction that countries must occupy the driver’s seat of educational planning.”

The standards consist of three parts: a Policy Framework explaining the rationale, structure and approach of the project; A Competency Standards Modules’ Structure, which crosses the components of educational reform with various policy approaches to generate a matrix of skill sets for teachers; and Implementation Guidelines providing a detailed syllabus of the specific skills to be acquired by teachers within each skill set or module.

 

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