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= Introduction=

'''''"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."

John Dewey1

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[[Image:CCElogo.jpg|link=CCE|150px|The Centre for Commonwealth Education|thumb]]
[[Image:CETlogo.png|link=http://www.commonwealtheducationtrust.org/|150px|The Commonwealth Education Trust|thumb]]
This is the professional learning resource of the OER4Schools project at the [[CCE|Centre for Commonwealth Education]]. For more information about this project, visit [http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/cce/initiatives/projects/oer4schools/ the OER4Schools project page]. To learn more about the aims and content of the resource, see [[OER4Schools/Overview|Overview]]. If you are planning to use this resource, then do contact us to see whether we can collaborate in some way. 

The resource was collaboratively authored, primarily by [http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/hennessy/ Sara Hennessy], [http://www.bjohas.de Bjoern Hassler], Nitu Duggal, Wei Shin Leong, and Janet Blair of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, and Abel Makonga and Agness Tembo of Chalimbana Basic School (Chalimbana, Zambia). Other contributors to specific pages are acknowledged there. A number of aspects of the OER4Schools programme at Chalimbana Basic School have been supported by http://www.aptivate.org.

= Overview of the resource = 

Through our research in Zambia we developed a practical professional development (PD) programme for school-based
teacher education, supporting teachers to embed interactive
methods of teaching and learning into classroom practice through
the exploitation of mobile technologies. It moves beyond technology and skills-focused initiatives
by highlighting the crucial role of teacher support in promoting innovation and experimentation
with teaching styles. Our overall goal is to focus on learning, meeting the challenge of moving
away from superficial repetition of facts towards deeper learning and understanding. We aim to
develop teachers’ capability to use tablets, netbooks, e-book readers, Open Educational
Resources (OER) and Open Source software effectively to support students’ learning in
mathematics and science through active participation, dialogue and collaborative enquiry. Our
participatory approach especially values the ‘voices’ of everybody involved. The research is
founded on principles of effective pedagogy in teacher education and classroom teaching in sub-Saharan Africa. The professional learning programme is suitable for low-resourced primary
schools and colleges (combined with teaching practice), and freely available as an OER. The
resource consists of 25 two-hour sessions, organised in five units, covering interactive teaching
principles, group work, questioning, dialogue, Assessment for Learning, and enquiry-based
learning. Each session is clearly structured and includes unique, professionally filmed video
exemplars of interactive practices in Zambian and South African classrooms, accompanying texts
co-authored with teachers, and facilitator notes. It builds on an established, sustained teacher-led
process for sharing and trialling new practices and digital resources; peer observation; discussion                                                                                                     
and joint reflection.

= Units in the professional learning resource =
[[OER4Schools/Overview|Overview of the resource]]:
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See the [[OER4Schools/Detailed outline|detailed outline]] for more information.

The content is developed collaboratively between our facilitators Abel Makonga and Agness Tembo at Chalimbana Basic School and our team at the Centre for Commonwealth Education. We currently only have English language versions. However, you can use Google Translate to view 
[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=fr&u=http%3A%2F%2Forbit.educ.cam.ac.uk%2Fwiki%2FOER4Schools French], [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=pt&u=http%3A%2F%2Forbit.educ.cam.ac.uk%2Fwiki%2FOER4Schools Portuguese], [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=sw&u=http%3A%2F%2Forbit.educ.cam.ac.uk%2Fwiki%2FOER4Schools Swahili] and other language versions.

You can also join us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oer4schools/

= A quick overview =

The video below gives an overview of what the resource has to offer and how it has been used and developed:

{{: Video/Africa Colloquium March 2014 }}

{{: Video/Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School.m4v }}


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