Teaching Teachers for the Future

The Teaching Teachers for the Future project is funded by the Australian Government under the Digital Strategy for Teachers and School Leaders and is a component of the Digital Education Revolution program. The project aims to build a consistent approach to developing graduate teacher ICT capabilities, curriculum, resources, and support networks across the 39 Australian higher education institutions that provide teacher education. This will support pre-service teachers develop proficiency in using ICT to improve student learning outcomes.

Teaching Teachers for the Future targets systematic change in the ICT proficiency of graduate teachers and is building the capacity of teacher educators and a national support network of ICT expertise that will continue beyond the project.

Teaching Teachers for the Future will develop a framework to assist student teachers to map their level of ICT proficiency against the National Professional Standards for Graduate Teachers. The project is also developing exemplar packages of digital professional learning and curriculum resources that will be used by the university professional learning networks and pre-service teachers to integrate ICT in the first phase Australian Curriculum subjects of English, mathematics, science and history.

Project partners are the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ATLC), the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), the Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE), the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE) and Education Services Australia.

Education Services Australia is working with the universities to develop the professional learning and curriculum resources that will meet the just-in-time, anywhere, anytime needs of pre-service teachers, teacher educators and in-service teachers.

The resources will be accessible to all teachers on completion of the project in 2012.