OER in Education:Books/ORBIT/Preface
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The book contains...
An introduction, describing...
- Some ways you might like to use this resource and how to integrate it into Professional Development (PD) and lesson planning
- Some approaches to PD, including whole school PD
- The use of Digital Video for Professional Development
- The use of Creative Commons materials, and copyright issues
- The use of Wikis in education
Six Pedagogical chapters, covering
- Assessment
- Inclusion and Differentiation
- Questioning
- Dialogue in whole class and small group work
- Developing subject language
- Enquiry based learning
- A final chapter on Technology for Interactive Pedagogy, with a review of the literature and some suggested tools.
Theory, Teacher Education Resources, and Practical Classroom Exemplars
Each of the Pedagogy chapters and the final chapter on technology contains three key sections
- An introduction to the theory and research, written for practitioners
- A set of Teacher Education resources to engage practitioners in the Pedagogic area, for use in Professional Development settings
- A set of Classroom Exemplars, to offer some examples of the pedagogic approach in a classroom context. These could be used as stand alone lessons, or as starting points for professional development exercises.
Anticipated Use
We anticipate the resources being used in a variety of professional development settings, to support the development of high quality interactive pedagogy. Where possible we have indicated ways to incorporate technology, and the final chapter discusses this in some more detail. If any resources are particularly useful, or you have 'remixed' (edited/combined) resources, please do let us know or upload your new resources onto the Wiki for all to use (and perhaps for future versions of the book).
