General
Topic outline
Who?
Are you like Asha?
Meet Asha, a dedicated Tanzanian teacher with several years of classroom experience and a growing passion for using technology to make her lessons more engaging and effective. She’s comfortable using a laptop or smartphone—able to browse the internet, open and use applications, and manage basic files—but now wants to move beyond the basics to meaningfully integrate ICT into her teaching. Asha is ready to explore how digital tools can support curriculum goals, strengthen both traditional and modern teaching methods, and simplify assessment and school data management. Enthusiastic and curious, she’s the kind of educator who will thrive in a flexible, predominantly online TIE professional development course that helps her connect technology with real classroom impact.Then this track is for you!
What?
Track 1 Unit List
This beginner's track consists of the following ICT CSTT Course units of study:
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We are thrilled to have you join this training program, designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to navigate the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) effectively and fully engage with the Tanzania ICTs Competence Standard for Teachers (2025).
During this orientation, you will:
- Understand the training objectives, prerequisites, and expectations.
- Create and access your Moodle account seamlessly.
- Navigate the Moodle LMS confidently to access learning materials and activities.
- Learn about portfolio-based assessment methods.
- Understand plagiarism policies and maintain academic integrity.
- Access the technical and academic support services available to you.
- Understand the training objectives, prerequisites, and expectations.
- Unit 2: ICT to support curriculum goals URL
Welcome to this Unit two on ICT and Curriculum. In today’s digital era, continuous learning is essential for teachers to effectively implement the revised curriculum and nurture 21st-century skills among students. This unit designed to support you in strengthening digital skills, enhancing pedagogy, and effectively integrating ICT into teaching and learning.
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In this unit, you will explore how to use digital tools, simulations, and multiple platforms to enhance teaching and learning. These tools enable you to engage students actively, foster collaboration, and make lessons more interactive and meaningful. By integrating subject-specific simulations, you can demonstrate complex concepts in ways that are easier for learners to understand. Using different platforms allows you to access a wide range of teaching resources, manage classroom activities efficiently, and provide timely feedback to students. Overall, mastering these competencies will help you create a modern, learner-centered classroom that meets the demands of 21st-century education.
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This training is designed to equip you with practical skills, knowledge, and strategies for integrating digital technologies effectively into teaching and learning. Throughout this module, you will learn how to design, implement, and evaluate learner-centered pedagogical approaches enhanced by ICT tools.
You are encouraged to actively participate in hands-on activities, engage in collaborative discussions, and apply these concepts and tools in your classroom. Doing so will enhance student engagement, foster creativity, and develop critical thinking skills, ultimately improving teaching and learning outcomes.
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Assessment is a key part of teaching and learning, helping teachers identify what learners know, the skills they have developed, and areas that need further support. ICT tools make possible to design quizzes, collect feedback instantly, track learner progress, and even use multimedia such as audio, video, and simulations to assess practical skills in real-life contexts.
In this unit, you will explore how digital assessment tools can enhance classroom practice. Also, you will learn to design both formative and summative assessments, select and use online quizzes and survey tools, integrate multimedia into performance-based tasks, and apply ethical principles of data use. By mastering these skills, you will be empowered to conduct assessments that are curriculum-aligned, learner-centered, and relevant for the digital age.
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Open Educational Resources (OER) give you free, high-quality materials that you can use, adapt, and share to strengthen teaching and learning. For Tanzanian classrooms, OER help you access curriculum-aligned content without cost, refresh lessons with locally relevant examples, and collaborate with colleagues by remixing and improving materials for your learners.
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Welcome to this exciting and essential topic: Internet Search. In today’s digital world, the internet offers a vast amount of knowledge but knowing how to search, what to trust, and how to use it responsibly is a key skill for every learner.
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Accurate and well-organized school records are essential for effective teaching, planning, and administration. This module introduces teachers to the principles of managing school records.
In today’s education systems, recordkeeping is no longer limited to paper files. Teachers must be able to use digital tools to collect, store, update, and retrieve learner data efficiently and securely. These tools improve accuracy, reduce workload, and support data-driven decision-making.
Certificate
On completion of all the units of study in this track you will be awarded a certificate. Access your certificate below
Attribution & Licence
ICT CSTT Track 1 Orientation by Tanzanian Ministry of Education Science, Technology and Vocational Training is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.