Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE) along with ten other universities and three teacher training colleges in Vietnam participated in the UNESCO Bangkok Curriculum Development Workshop. Thirty-six participants, mostly senior faculty members, received intensive training for five days. They reviewed and updated ICT-related courses in the existing teacher education curriculum.
After the workshop, the participants said they learned the “principles, models and steps to build an ICT-integrated curriculum” and the “relationship of technical skills, content and pedagogy in the curriculum development process”. For others, they have found the “roads to integrate ICT into the curriculum” or “how to develop the next generation curriculum”. Everyone agreed it was a useful workshop and met most of their expectations.
The Curriculum Development Workshop was held last 14-18 June 2010 at the HNUE Campus in Hanoi, Vietnam. UNESCO Bangkok and Hanoi offices in cooperation with HNUE officials made this workshop possible. VVOB Vietnam, an international NGO working in the areas of ICT and teacher education, sponsored the participation of additional participants including translators. Intel Vietnam and the Ministry of Education and Training gave interesting presentations to update the participants on existing initiatives on ICT in teacher training.
This is just the first step to develop the next generation of teachers in Vietnam. The institutions present in the workshops needs to make a decision whether to update their curriculum or not. Faculty also needs more training to better deliver the ICT-related courses. UNESCO, VVOB and Intel will continue to assist these institutions to achieve this objective.
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