“ICT Integration into Teaching and Learning for Rwanda In-Service Teachers”
Based on the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework For Teachers (Version 3)
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“ICT Integration into Teaching and Learning for Rwanda In-Service Teachers”
Based on the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework For Teachers (Version 3)
Rwanda Vision 2020 positions ICT at the heart of transformation across all sectors. In the education sector, ICT has been adopted as one of the strategic levers for addressing the key challenges of access, quality, equity, relevance, and management. In line with the Rwandan Competence-Based Curriculum, ICT is integrated as a tool to improve the quality of education in all subjects at all levels in teaching and learning practices, and therefore, ICT must support the emergence of teaching using pedagogical student-centered approaches by encouraging research, communication, and collaborative learning.
The Ministry of Education of Rwanda (MINEDUC) and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) embarked on an audacious initiative to enhance ICT utilization in education in line with the National Strategy for Transformation (NST1 2017-2024). As part of the collaboration between the Ministry of Education, and Korea International Cooperation Agency agreed to collaborate on a project, which was designed to develop ICT utilization capacity of schoolteachers.
The CADIE project started with an initial survey of beneficiaries such as students, teachers, schools, district leaders, and other educators to understand their viewpoint regarding ICT in education. Both teachers and students require a broad array of skills, attitudes, and values to succeed in their careers, and in life such as paying attention, setting goals, collaboration, planning and the ability to adjust to rapid changes in technology.
Rwanda in-service teacher training programme was developed and adapted to UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (CFT Version 3) and built by adapting and supplementing existing Open Educational Resources (OER). UNESCO ICT CFT consists of 18 competencies organized according to the six aspects of teachers’ professional practice, over three levels of teachers’ pedagogical use of ICT. The underlying idea is that teachers who have competencies to use ICT in their professional practice will deliver quality education and ultimately be able to effectively guide the development of students’ ICT competencies. Rwanda in-service teacher training programme focuses on competencies to integrate the appropriate ICT tools in a classroom setting and bring new experiences to Rwandan schools so that students and teachers have more exposure to an environment that grants them access to more valuable information.