Indian teacher training system: training of school teachers in ict skills towards building an ict enabled teaching

Abstract

In India school education over the years has expanded rapidly both in rural and urban areas. The quest for learning and better living is one of the motivations that every strata of society wanted to send their children to school. The enormous growth of private schools is one indication of the increased requirement education at school level. The major findings of the study explain how the ICT is made a compulsory subject at training colleges with the improved ICT curriculum. The study reveals the strategies of Indian government that surpasses the challenges in re-training of in-service teachers on ICT skills and building the school infrastructure.