What goes on in school-based ITT?
Abstract Initial Teacher Training (ITT) is destined to become more, perhaps entirely, school-based. Teacher competence with IT is still being developed. How might this lack in competence impact on trainee teachers learning to use IT in school? This paper considers the classroom experiences of trainee teachers following an early years, school-based BA (QTS) degree. Working in pairs the trainees undertook a range of IT work that was planned to exploit cross-curricular links. Observations of their work in school and recordings of class teacher/trainee conversations are used to describe the reality of school-based ITT. The data suggest that the value of the school-based work is largely restricted to that of planning for, and doing, in a specific context. There is little evidence that the class teachers are able to act as mentors for the trainee’s IT work. This could have serious consequences for the IT competence of the future teaching profession. Keywords Information technology; Initial t
