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Certificate of Achievement
Dr. Naraginti Amareswaran Reddy
has completed the following course:
Making Teacher Education Relevant for 21st Century Africa
The Open University and TESSA
The publication of the UNESCO ICT competency framework for teachers, and a drive across Africa to improve internet connectivity, alongside a focus on ‘learner-centred’ approaches means that considerable changes are needed in schools and teacher education institutions; and that teacher education has taken on a new significance. This course is for anyone who is working with teachers – teacher educators, education officers, headteachers, and teachers supporting each other.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop a plan to incorporate ICT tools and OER into your own practice to support the learning of the teachers and student teachers you are working with
- Explain how ICT tools can be used to enhance teacher learning and promote active learning in school
- Engage with the TESSA OER and identify ways in which they can be integrated into your teaching
- Collect specific examples to show how ICT can be integrated into classroom teaching to enhance learning
- Explore and evaluate OER repositories that that are relevant to your practice and support active teaching and learning
- Collaborate with colleagues in order to review practice in your institution
- Explain and demonstrate the values and practices that support learner-centred education
Syllabus
- Examine what is meant by ‘learner-centred education’;
- Focus on the ‘how’ of active teaching and learning and learner-centred education;
- Introduce the UNESCO ICT Competency framework for teachers, and exploring the role of teacher educators in supporting teachers to enact these practices;
- Provide examples of classroom practice which draws on ICT to support learning;
- Introduce OER in general and, TESSA in particular, as a way of supporting their own work and the work of pre-service and in-service teachers in developing active approaches to teaching and learning.
Issued on 5th March 2019
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