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Abstract All courses in initial Primary teacher training are now required, through the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (CATE), to provide information technology (IT) capability across primary school subjects as well as providing for those elements of IT that are specified within the National Curriculum Documents. As a starting point for this process at one institution, a survey of students on the 36‐week Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) primary course showed that their initial capability and awareness was very low. A restructured course programme was monitored by means of pre‐ and post‐course surveys of capability, by students' own records and by the tutor's subjective field notes during teaching and student IT activities. This paper includes a description of the course together with the results of the surveys and suggests that increasingly individualised learning strategies will considerably enhance this aspect of initial teacher training.
Wild et al. (Wed,) studied this question.