Year 1

1. Train selected teacher educators, who in turn

2. Train teachers in participating schools (an average of 6 teachers per school)

Year 2

Demonstration schools are selected  for closer support of the teachers in integrating ICT's in teaching and learning

The intended long-term Project Impact Downstream, thousands of students will benefit from improved teacher competencies and new learning materials from the project schools.

Schools are carefully monitored to determine what works and under what condition and how technology plays a part in improving teaching and learning. This information is valuable to stakeholders including governments and donors who are investing in technology in schools. The lessons learned will ensure that the investments being made are not wasted.

Objective 1: To leverage ICT's to provide professional development to existing teachers on new pedagogical approaches which will equip them to provide a learner – centered, participative and ICT- based approach to curriculum delivery

Objective 2: To encourage, support and facilitate teachers with methodologies to enable learners to develop information literacy skills, team delivery of project work by students and the acquisition of those higher order skills that both society and the world of work demand in a growing knowledge society increasingly demands.

Objective 3: To design and operate a school based support programme – encompassing school based support in all project schools and a more intensive school–based support in the demonstration project schools. The focus is to showcase good practice that demonstrates technology literacy (applying), knowledge deepening (infusing) and knowledge creation (transforming) levels of technology integration. The purpose is to provide concrete models on ‘how to’ motivate learner participation in school practice and provide a rich participative learning environment, facilitated by the use and integration of digital learning resources.

Objective 4: Drawing on the evaluation of the emerging models for teaching and learning in the general and beacon schools, to develop policy recommendations on competencies and requirements for teachers to be included in national teacher training policies in the project countries and to feed into ICT- based professional development courses for teachers in general. 

The project will use blended learning methodologies to train a purposive sample of secondary school teachers from secondary schools.

In Year 2, teachers will be supported by a post training online portal and a school visits programme to apply their learning in practice

• Enhanced teacher capacity to teach Science, Technology, English and Mathematics in a 21st Century context
• Increased access to, and quality of teaching and learning materials