Training teachers to use ICTs

Cyber Schools Teacher Professional Development training provides teachers with basic and intermediate-level IT skills while simultaneously teaching active educational methodologies. The focus is on teaching, learning, and the curriculum, rather than on technology itself, allowing teachers to see the relevance of ICT to their particular subject. Over the course of the six-day training, participants will learn how to train teachers and students in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education, project-based learning, and civic education. The participants will use Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Inspiration, and Photoshop, along with digital cameras and the Internet, to create lesson plans, documents, graphs, presentations, and images over the course of the week. Each activity will end with a small presentation from each team to the whole group, and each day will end with a discussion on what was learned and how it can be applied to the specific classroom realities of Bangladesh.