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= 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 = | = Units in the professional learning resource = | ||
