She didn’t learn practical IT skills that she uses in her teaching!
Damning ERO review
The Education Review Office (ERO) has found that many trained teachers are walking into their first jobs feeling unprepared for helping students with learning needs or using tests and data to assess student achievement. One teacher said “She didn’t learn practical IT skills that she uses in her teaching, such as Google Documents”.
A damning review has found a widespread lack of confidence in the capabilities of newly trained teachers as New Zealand’s educational performance declines.
The report says, “these concerns, while not universal, are widespread, and are compounded by systemic issues such as variation in initial teacher education programmes and components of theory and practice.”
“In the period from 2000 to 2015, we have witnessed a decline in New Zealand’s performance as a nation in the critical areas of reading, mathematics and science,” the ERO report says.
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Could Educational technologies (Edtech) fill the IT skills shortage in our existing teaching workforce, for now?
Edtech resources with simple and common sense menus and lesson planning functions, can help teachers with limited IT skills, navigate the new and complex technology environment appearing in modern classrooms.
This article shows how edtech is helping teachers with limited IT skills, build confidence in this new digital era and ensure students can access the latest resources in learning.
(5 Trends Impacting EdTech in 2019 Author Elliot Levine)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-trends-impacting-edtech-2019-elliott-levine/
The team at Afed Education try to ensure their menus and dashboards are simple and easy to follow to help all teachers at whatever level of IT proficiency they are at. Visit www.afedsquad.co.nz and see if this resource may help in the classroom.
