ENHANCING TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR UNDERSTANDING IN MATHEMATICS USING ICT : PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES FOR MATHEMATICS TEACHERS IN SEAMEO COUNTRIES

This paper describes professional development programmes, which is designed to prepare teachers in integrating ICT in enhancing teaching and learning for understanding mathematics. One of the aims of this programme is to fulfill teachers withexperiences in integrating ICT in mathematics classroom in order to support Indonesian MOE programmes in mathematics classroom. This paper describes the philosophy, the programmes and the implementation, the challenges in implementing ICT in Mathematics classrooms. This paper also describes professional development programs in training mathematics teachers using ICT. Strategy/approaches, assessment, It also gives some examples of participants project work in fulfilling the goals of programmes. Some recommendation and suggestions for future professionaldevelopment for mathematics teachers in integrating ICT in mathematics classroom are also described in this paper.