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=OER4Schools Professional Learning Resource Home - Overview = | =OER4Schools Professional Learning Resource Home - Overview = | ||
'''Introduction'''. This is a professional learning resource for teachers, focusing on interactive teaching | '''Introduction'''. This is a professional learning resource for teachers, focusing on interactive pedagogy for teaching with and without Information and Communication Technology (ICT). A key feature of this resource is the use of video as a stimulus for discussion. The video used has been produced mainly in the Zambian primary school context, but we anticipate other video materials to become available, and we hope the material will be useful in other contexts too. | ||
'''Licence'''. This resource is openly accessible under a Creative Common licence so that it can be freely distributed, copied or adapted. To facilitate this in practice, it will be available in a number of formats (online and offline), appropriate to the varied sub-Saharan environments in which teachers find themselves. Please check our website http://tinyurl.com/oer4schools for available formats. | '''Licence'''. This resource is openly accessible under a Creative Common licence so that it can be freely distributed, copied or adapted. To facilitate this in practice, it will be available in a number of formats (online and offline), appropriate to the varied sub-Saharan environments in which teachers find themselves. Please check our website http://tinyurl.com/oer4schools for available formats. | ||
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* Educator reflections – for teacher educators who might be using this resource to run face-to-face, blended, or distance learning programs. | * Educator reflections – for teacher educators who might be using this resource to run face-to-face, blended, or distance learning programs. | ||
The resource introduces and illustrates interactive teaching using interactive teaching techniques itself! These include asking users to brainstorm, reflect, collaborate, discuss, make personal sense of new ideas and try out new classroom practices. | The resource introduces and illustrates interactive teaching – using interactive teaching techniques itself! These include asking users to brainstorm, reflect, collaborate, discuss, make personal sense of new ideas and try out new classroom practices. "Interactive" in this context does not mean technically interactive, but pedagogically interactive: learners are interacting with each other and the teacher rather than being passive consumers of content. | ||
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