INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND NEW PRIMARY-SCHOOL TEACHERS

This paper looks at the use of IT by teachers in their first year of t eaching. Students on a Primary PGCE course were followed up in their f irst year of teaching, data was collected through questionnaires and i nterviews, and an interview with the Primary PCGE IT tutor provided a picture of the training they had received. It was found that the train ing had provided a limited preparation, enabling a start to be made wi th subject-related games and word processing, but had left the teacher s reliant on school support, to develop further use of IT. Suggestions for course improvement are made.