Elsa Mentz
ABSTRACT
To assist Information Technology (IT) teachers in their endeavour to keep up with the rapid changes in the curriculum, we implemented two approaches to professional development. In this poster we will illustrate the comparison between the traditional training-based professional development (currently implemented to train IT teachers), our face-to-face professional development programme and our multimedia-based professional development programme by using Guskey's 21 characteristics for effective professional development. Once evaluation was completed we proposed a professional development programme incorporating the strengths of each approach evaluated in this poster.
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- Empowering information technology teachers through professional development: an evaluation
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