Basic IT Skills Development Trainings to Primary School Teachers (Phase 2)

Duration: October 2006 – February 2008
Donors: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Human and Institutional Development Program managed by World Learning / North Macedonia together with Bureau for Development of Education (BDE)

Objectives: The IT Skills Development for Primary School Teachers training program intended to lead the effort to face one of the weaknesses identified among teachers in primary schools in North Macedonia, which is lack of capacity at using IT as an effective teaching tool. Considering the importance to provide trainings to teachers in basic IT skills, this training program insured that additional number of 5,100 primary school teachers and school staff accommodate the information technology. As continuation of this successful training program, the overall goal of this follow-up program was to create an even-playing field in the area of IT skills among primary school teachers.

Results:
• Participants completing the program overcame fear of new IT technology, and become familiar with basic usage of computers;
• Participants completing the program were able for basic usage of the Microsoft package, including: Word, Power Point and Excel;
• Participants completing the program in general, understood the range of IT usages for the sake of better teaching;
• Participants completing the program gained a basic understanding of how to integrate the use of software into their teaching.