The integration of IT and teacher training: supporting teachers in their use of hardware and software tools in the school mathematics classroom

Abstract

While initial teacher training has a full agenda, the programmes in France have a particular concern for the need to support teachers in their use of powerful IT tools in the teaching of the subjects of the curriculum. In the case of mathematics the concern has included both the need for the provision of opportunities for the acquisition of skills for personal exploration of important concepts and relationships as well as, and potentially even more important, the participation in specifically designed classroom focused ‘scenarios in use’ which attempt to illustrate the potential learning outcomes from pupils’ engagement with specific software tools.