About Teach-IT.net
Origins of the program
The project draws upon experience gained from the teacher training programme "Multimedia in the Process of Teaching" implemented by KANA Gliwice in cooperation with Siemens in 2001-2005 as well as the Teach-IT.net project implemented in 2003-2006 under the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci EU Programme.
A great asset of the Teach-IT.net project is its valorisation carried out with the support of Microsoft Corporation. Having acquired the status of the Regional Innovative Centre, KANA is constantly developing the Teach-IT.net methodology, as the project remains in close affinity with the Microsoft Program "Partners in Learning".
In 2006, the project started in Ukraine. Here Teach-IT.net will be introduced by one of the leading centers of the humanities, the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Together with Polish colleagues from KANA, here the first steps have already been taken to start Teach-IT.net in Ukraine. (See NEWS.)
Project goals
The project Teach-IT.net was started with the goal of helping teachers and other educational workers to achieve knowledge and ability in the area of information technologies. It is being done in order to optimize the instructional process and encourage the effective learning of students and of the teachers themselves throughout their whole lives.
Considering the fact that today the role of teacher lies in combining information technologies with the instructional process, the program Teach-IT.net will have significant influence on raising the quality of instruction in middle schools and encourage the great potential of information technologies to be used as fully as possible.
The strategic goal of the project is to build up an educated society in Ukraine by passing along knowledge and habits to teachers and tutors that will help them actively learn through all their lives, and also optimize the instructional process.
The short term goals of the project are as follows:
- creating conditions for the realization of the program Teach-IT.net in Ukraine
- spreading the ideas of the program Teach-IT.net in the educational field and among government circles in Ukraine. As fully as possible, the project corresponds to the National Doctrine for the Development of Education from 17.04.2002, in which we read: “The priority for the development of education is introducing modern information and communications technologies that will provide further improvement of the educational and instructional process, the accessibility and effectiveness of education, and preparation of the younger generation for life-long involvement in the information society.”
Target audience
Teach-IT.net is intended above all for workers in the field of education. That is, leaders of regional boards of education, administrators in education, inspectors, staff at educational centers, middle and high school and university teachers, tutors, and others. The biggest audience of the program will be middle and high school teachers.
As teachers of this level are potentially the best propagators of knowledge and ability connected with information technologies, in this particular professional groupo the greatest deficit is found in this field. Less than 10% of Ukrainian middle and high school teachers are able to use informational technologies for educational goals. With this in mind, the KANA organization in Gliwice developed a strategy for using tested methods of professional improvement in the field of information technologies with the goal of beginning corresponding changes in the Ukrainian system of education. The program Teach-IT.net is intended for all teachers in Ukraine. Through its influence on following stages of realization, the program can reach more than 500,000 teachers.
Executors of the program
Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine) – a Ukrainian private institution of higher education. One of the leading modern humanities universities, open to innovation. The organizer of more than 10 summer school to study foreign languages, honoured at publishing forums, a regular participant in international exchange programs and cooperation, a member of the European and World Association of Catholic Universities.
KANA Catholic Youth Education Center (Gliwice, Poland) – Polish non-profit civic organization, founded in 1994. One of KANA’s priorities is work for the professional development of teachers, especially in the field of Information Technology. The activities of the center have been highly praised by the European Commission and, as part of the EU’s Leonardo da Vinci project, a joint project was started, entitled: “Innovative Methods of the Use of Information Technology in Vocational of Teachers and Trainers”. The statutory goal of KANA is introducing and propagating forms of teaching youth and adults that would result in spiritual and intellectual development, and, at the same time, making possible the acquirement of practical habits suited for further professional and family life.
