Teachers are critical to student learning and are being provided with significant on-going support to ensure the Digital Education Revolution is a success. Collaborative work is currently underway to make certain teachers continue to receive the necessary training and development to integrate ICT into their teaching practices:
- The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard MP has recently written to all teacher employers in Australia indicating that funds of up to $11.25 million of the total ($22.5 million) provided under the state and territory element of the Australian Government Quality Teacher Program (AGQTP)
in 2009 should be directed to ICT-related school-based professional development for teachers.
- Under the auspices of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA), the Australian ICT in Education Committee (AICTEC) is developing a Digital Education Revolution Road Map which will include a Teaching in the Digital Age Work Plan. The Work Plan will focus on the teacher professional development required to integrate ICT into pedagogical practice to meet students’ needs and harness the resources of the Digital Education Revolution. The Work Plan is being informed by the Teaching for the Digital Age Advisory and Reference Groups.
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On 3 June 2008 at the Australian National Awards for Quality Schooling ceremony, the Minister for Education, the Hon Julia Gillard MP, announced that under the initiatives of the Digital Education Revolution funds were committed to support the ICT professional development of teachers.
The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations invites tenders from interested organisations or consortia to develop and deliver a program of two-day workshops for teachers and school leaders on using ICT in the teaching of Mathematics, History, English and the Sciences in Australian schools. The successful tenderer will also establish an ongoing network for the workshop participants (including their school communities).
Evaluation of tenders will include demonstrated expert knowledge on integrating ICT skills and knowledge into pedagogical practice in Mathematics, History, English and the Sciences.
A copy of the tender documentation can be downloaded from the Aus Tender website at http://www.tenders.gov.au/
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