The OER4Schools Professional Learning Resource

Interactive teaching with and without ICT

About. 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.

Each unit includes an introduction to that unit (providing an overview of the topic itself), and a number of activities, including

• Personal reflections on textual material about interactive teaching,
• Workshop activities based on discussing video, audio and photographical stimuli,
• School-based classroom activities for teachers to try out during lessons,
• Guidance for teacher reflection (following their lessons),
• Educator reflections – for teacher educators who might be using this resource to run face-to-face, blended, or distance learning programs.

The resource can be used in different ways, depending on your circumstances. It supports different modes of learning, such as

• individual, self-paced learning,
• use by small, informal groups of colleagues,
• use with a class of students on a formally taught pre-service or in-service course,
• use by staff of a whole school, or for
• blended learning – as part of a distance learning course with some face-to-face workshops.

Pedagogical content. 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 (in the sense of interacting with a computer), but pedagogically interactive: learners are interacting with each other and the teacher rather than being passive consumers of content.

Resource details
Title	The OER4Schools Professional Learning Resource for sub-Saharan Africa
Topic	[[Topics/Interactive pedagogy|Interactive pedagogy]]
Teaching approach	[[Teaching Approaches/|]]
Subject	[[Resources/Interactive pedagogy|Interactive pedagogy]]
Age of students / grade	[[Resources/Higher|Higher]]
Table of contents	The resource consists of 6 units, including one introductory unit, 4 topic-based units, as well as a concluding unit called “Sharing the vision”. The units are 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.
Files and resources to view and download	The resource is available online OER4Schools.
License	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. In addition, our videos are available from our YouTube site, http://www.youtube.com/user/OER4Schools. If you do not have access to the internet, then do speak to the person who gave you these materials about how to find out more information.