ICT Inclusion in Teacher Education and its Impact on Quality Teaching

Abstract

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become an indispensible part of education system. The quality and efficiency of education depends on quality of teacher education. Integrated technological knowledge helps a prospective teacher to know the world of virtual technology can be applied in future for the betterment of the students. Technology based teaching-learning process is important in bringing about digital opportunity and paradigm shift for delivering well designed, learner centered, interactive and facilitated learning environment to anyone are anyplace, anytime by utilizing the attributes and resources of various digital technologies. These changes have caused educational institution, administrators, and teachers to rethink their roles, teaching and vision for future. Even today our classroom processes are mostly based on chalk and talk, thus there is an immediate need for orienting the teachers in ICT skills and program. The teachers to be trained in the use of modern tools of ICT and online resources. In modern science and technological societies education demands more competencies of teacher regarding ICT and skills to use ICT in teaching–learning process. Now a day’s ICT’s are transforming schools and classrooms a new look by bringing in new curriculum based on real world problems, projects, providing tools for enhancing learning, assessment system and providing teachers and students more facilities and opportunities for feedback. But, still a huge gap between curricular stipulations and their implementation. The curriculum has to gear up to challenges of ICT to improvise teaching learning process, accordingly the teacher education programmes should also respond to the changes brought through ICT. This empirical paper mainly focuses on the pre-service and in-service programmes should be aimed to train prospective teachers to use ICT in terms of online resources for enhancing pedagogical competency and making teaching learning process a joyful and effective.