Professional Training for Tele-teacher of Distance Education

The authors developed a training course for tele-teachers of Distance Education. And, the course was provided to tele-teachers of a satellite Instructional Television project in Papua New Guinea. In the course development, to embody the recent curriculum reform and its concept of Students' Centered learning, the authors introduced aspects of pedagogical theory, characteristics of human cognition, communication skills, classroom management skills and presentation skills. Also, all the performances are intended to effect on a Systems Approach as well. Required emphases for tele-teachers were illustrated as a table by comparison with BOU method