OER4Schools

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The OER4Schools Professional Learning Resource

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Introduction

This is the professional learning resource of the OER4Schools project at the Centre for Commonwealth Education. For more information about this project, visit the OER4Schools project page. To learn more about the aims and content of the resource, see Overview.

The resource was collaboratively authored, primarily by Sara Hennessy, 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.

Units in the professional learning resource

Overview of the resource:

• Unit 1: Introduction to interactive teaching and the use of ICT
• Unit 2: Whole class dialogue & effective questioning
• Unit 3: Group work
• Unit 4: Assessment for learning and lesson pacing
• Unit 5: Enquiry-based learning and project work
• Unit 6: Into the future

See the detailed outline for more information.

The contents of these units will be added throughout 2012. 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 French, Portuguese, Swahili and other language versions.

Lesson and activity templates

• OER4Schools lesson plan (blank)
• OER4Schools activity template (blank)

Classroom activities

• OER4Schools/Netbook familiarisation
• OER4Schools/Collaborative writing with EtherPad

Further resources

• Leadership for Learning
• OER4Schools/ChaUni Effective use of ICT
• You may also be interested in exploring the resources of the ORBIT project, hosted on this wiki.
• Interactive pedagogy in literacy teaching

There are a number of key texts, often given in references in the OER4Schools units. These include:

• Alexander, R. (ed) (2010), Children, Their World, Their Education: Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review. London: Routledge.
• Maddock, M., Peacock, A., Hart, S. & Drummond, M.-J. (2012). Creating Learning Without Limits. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
• index for inclusion, http://www.csie.org.uk/

Taster sessions

• Taster activities for UNISA
• Resource for taster workshop at KCE
• Resource for taster workshop at NISTCOL
• Resource for taster workshop at UNZA

Videos

Much of our resource draws on video specifically produced for this programme. You can view a number of videos here:

• Video clips from a lesson on rectangles
• Video clips from a lesson on classifying vertebrates
• Video clips from a lesson on the power of two / Exponentials
• Video clips on 3D shapes

Many of the videos used in our resource are also available from our YouTube site, http://www.youtube.com/user/OER4Schools.

VIDEO

Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School

Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School

Video/Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School.m4v, https://oer.opendeved.net/wiki/Video/Introduction_to_Chalimbana_Basic_School.m4v,This video is available on your memory stick in the video/Talks folder. Duration: 1:57 (Series: Talks, episode 03)

Conference presentations

• BERA 2012: http://tinyurl.com/BERA2012
• Information about ICT Forum 2012
• e-Learning Africa 2012

Alternative page versions

• OER4Schools/1.4 Effective use of ICT and collaborative writing v2

All-in-one pdf

• You can get a full pdf of all units so far here: ORBIT:Books/OER4Schools Note that some of the formatting isn't perfect just yet!!