Online Community for Teachers
Malta , 2007 to Ongoing
Compendium: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Background
The development of a Special Needs Portal for educational professionals for the main purpose of creating a dynamic online community.
The motivation of the initiative
Teachers needed encouragement to share resources. Teachers do not have time to meet and discuss their professional life in a special school environment and the Government wanted to encourage mutual support and sharing of good principles of practice.
Participants
Schools, the ICT Learning Centre Special Needs Unit.
Aims and targets
Objectives of the initiative
- To provide a structure that encourages teachers to exchange resources.
- To provide teachers with a place other than the school environment where they can request support and share ideas.
- To provide a portal where teachers and parents alike can access information and find contacts to solve problems they may encounter.
Target group
Teachers, facilitators, incos and also school administration.
Methods applied to reach the objective (technological and/or pedagogical)
Accessible web design and development,
Strategy and actions
Level of implementation
National schools, including most teachers in special schools and facilitators and inclusion coordinators (incos) in mainstream schools.
Implementation
Regular contact with the people who have joined the mailing list, and soon an e-newsletter will be created aimed at keeping professionals up to date with new technologies.
Monitoring and evaluation
Funding/Cost effectiveness
Budget
Not available.
Sustainability/Transferability
Outcomes/impacts
Achievements
Specific results
Not available.
Success factors
Lessons learnt
Sound technical knowledge is pretty useless without a fine-tuned dissemination strategy. The initiative will be reviewed towards the end of February 2008, because it was not effective enough in obtaining the desired feedback.
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