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Adapting and Sharing our Resources

8 How can you deepen your engagement with the ORBIT community and others involved in working with teachers in an open educational resource (OER) environment? [Community of practice]

The ORBIT materials are OERs. This means that they can be freely shared, adapted and used by anyone.

You might start with the community closest to you – in your own context. If you are a teacher educator working in a college or university, these questions might help:

• To what extent do teacher educators at my institution work together?
• How could I benefit from increasing this collaboration?
• Am I personally prepared to put the effort into working together?
• How can I start a conversation about how to do this?

Teacher development may start in an institution, but schools and communities are involved as well.

• How can you share your ORBIT experiences with others who work with teachers in schools and in your local community?

You could use the following steps for selecting and preparing to use ORBIT activities in the curriculum:

1. Select an appropriate theme or teaching approach that you’ve identified as needing attention, or which is on your curriculum/scheme of work for the next few weeks – this might be one which you find particularly challenging to teach, one which your learners have struggled with or a new way of teaching that you want to try out.
2. Locate and review relevant ORBIT materials to identify suitable sections which match your chosen theme, topic or skill.
3. Ask yourself what you as a teacher have planned to achieve through teaching your theme and topic.
4. Read the ORBIT activities and related case studies and resources.
5. Select the relevant ORBIT activities or case studies that match what you planned to achieve. Find the resources you need.
6. Adapt the ORBIT activities to suit your pupils and your surroundings

You should consider the prior knowledge and experiences either of the teachers, or the pupils they’re working with. ^{(Adapted from TESSA Working With Teachers, section SharingPractice).}

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