Activity 4B: Staff Development in ICT

When attempting to integrate ICT into teaching and learning, staff competencies must first be assessed. Teacher professional development activities must be planned to cater to the development needs of each teacher so that they will have the capacity to use ICT for teaching and learning. Both in-service and pre-service programmes can be organized to help schools achieve this. Most of these programmes should emphasize the development of basic ICT skills and occasionally include the application of ICT as a teaching and learning tool for teachers. This is an important outcome since having resources without the expertise on how to use them is a sure path towards wastage of investment. It is also clear that there is a need to expand and intensify the professional development programmes so that teachers can be challenged to perform at higher levels.