Improvement and Evaluation of a Comprehensive ICT Teacher Training Seminar on Promoting the Use of ICT in School

Abstract

This study focused on the improvement and evaluation of a comprehensive ICT teacher training seminar on promoting other teachers’ use of ICT in their own schools without changing the ICT environment. We evaluated and improved the training seminar of Koshimizu et. al. (2014) in four ways: (A) opportunities to promote (when they do so); (B) demonstration of teaching methods using ICT in class (what they show to other teachers in their own schools); (C) devices and application software (which devices and application software they recommend); and (D) planning for promotion (how they do so). The results of the evaluation of the training seminar are as follows. The participants acquired a sense of satisfaction, became motivated, and acquired concrete methods for promoting ICT. After the training seminar, the participants who promoted the use of ICT in their own schools were 28 teachers in 35 (a rate of 80.0%). They gave other teachers a chance to use ICT in class and taught them how to operate ICT devices in on-the-job training and supported them individually. The four improved aspects were reflected in the planning sheets collected during the training seminar and in the promotion that took place afterwards.