teachers' professional profile in ICT for education
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The national<br />
<strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation sources<br />
N<strong>in</strong>eteen people who play a key role <strong>in</strong><br />
major teacher <strong>education</strong> <strong>in</strong>stitutions were<br />
identified as primary <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation sources<br />
<strong>in</strong> each country (see Appendix).<br />
These contacts were asked to appo<strong>in</strong>t a<br />
“National Investigator” responsible <strong>for</strong><br />
provid<strong>in</strong>g accurate and complete<br />
<strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation to be used <strong>in</strong> the context of a<br />
comparative analysis at European level.<br />
Figure 2.<br />
A map of the<br />
countries<br />
<strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong><br />
uTeacher<br />
The National<br />
Investigators<br />
N<strong>in</strong>eteen National Investigators<br />
were appo<strong>in</strong>ted to describe the explicit<br />
or implicit competence <strong>profile</strong><br />
perta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g to <strong>ICT</strong> <strong>in</strong> teachers’ practice<br />
that is assumed as a reference<br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>in</strong>-service and pre-service<br />
programs/<strong>in</strong>itiatives/courses <strong>in</strong> their<br />
country (see Appendix).<br />
The contributions produced by the<br />
National Investigators served as a<br />
basis <strong>for</strong> an analysis of teachers’<br />
competencies <strong>in</strong> <strong>ICT</strong> assumed <strong>in</strong> the<br />
6<br />
different European countries.<br />
Specifically, the <strong>in</strong>vestigators’ tasks<br />
were to:<br />
• produce a short national report <strong>in</strong><br />
l<strong>in</strong>e with guidel<strong>in</strong>es provided by the<br />
partnership;<br />
• participate <strong>in</strong> a week-long sem<strong>in</strong>ar <strong>in</strong><br />
Venice (4 th -9 th October 2004), where<br />
a draft of the Common European<br />
Framework would be produced;<br />
• participate <strong>in</strong> the Framework<br />
production.