Integrating icts in the curriculum:training needs and techers’ interest

• Main Authors: Azucena Hernández Martín, Anunciación Quintero Gallego
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Universitaria de Formación del Profesorado 2009-08-01
• Series: Revista Electronica Interuniversitaria de Formación del Profesorado
• Subjects: Teacher training; Information and communication technologies (ICTs); Training needs; Design and curricular development
• Online Access: http://www.aufop.com/aufop/uploaded_files/articulos/1248479648.pdf

This article focuses on the analysis of Primary, Secondary and High school teachers’ training needs in the Community of Castilla y León (Spain) and on their interest in receiving training to include ICTs in curricular design and development. It also analyses their preferences on how to get this training. In order to discern what their needs are, we try to give an answer to the following questions: Are teachers conscious of the their need for training in order to integrate ICTs in the curriculum?, which is the most demanded type of training and what ways do they prefer to receive that training?, are they really interested in this training, which entails one’s willingness to invest time and effort in the master of the new ICTs?