ICT and professional development of teachers

Abstract

This paper examined the role of ICT in improving the quality of teacher education that can transfer the teacher centered and book centered learning environment into a student centered environment. ICT can change the traditional methods of learning process and the models of ICT should be integrated in the teacher education programme in such a way that teachers should be enabled to face the new demands and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of teaching-learning process. Through professional development teachers acquire life-long learning and good ICT skills incorporated into a new pedagogical approach that helps them in accepting the challenges of this new technological world. Thus, information and communication technology plays important catalytic role in changing the complete scenario of teacher education system.