Our study is descriptive and the 30 examples were chosen not because they are the best of all available ones, but because they exemplify well these new emergent features at a general level. Framework underpinning the analysis by Darling-Hammond et al., 2017. JRC will publish a report with 1-page descriptions of all 30 examples and first analysis of the main features (by end 2018)
Emerging, innovative practices of Teacher Professional development - How are the changing needs addressed?
1. Emerging, innovative practices of
Teacher Professional development
How are the changing needs addressed?
Riina Vuorikari, Pan Kampylis
Unit B.4 Human Capital & Employment
Tallinn, September 2018
SLIDES at: https://www.slideshare.net/vuorikari/
3. Outline
Vuorikari, R., Kampylis, P. (2018). Emerging, innovative practices
of teacher professional development addressing the changing needs.
A. Context, aim of the study and the research question
B. Presentation of Results with some examples
C. Take away message
4. Context
Teachers are busy folks. There are many professional and personal
demands for their time. How can PD fit in?
Our research question: What kind of PD practices have emerged as
a "workaround" to overcome the known barriers and to meet the needs?
Needs for PD:
• 57% ICT skills for teaching
• 48% Teaching for diversity
• 41% Student counselling and behavioural issues
• 40% Teaching transversal, soft and future skills
Barriers:
• 51% conflicts with the work schedule
• 48% lack of incentives
• 48% lack of support from employer
• 44% of teachers consider PD activities expensive
6. Outline
Vuorikari, R., Kampylis, P. (2018). Emerging, innovative practices
of teacher professional development addressing the changing needs.
A. Context, aim of the study and the research question
B. Presentation of Results with some examples
C. Take away message
7. Focus of innovation, i.e. the workarounds
• Innovation in PD that focuses on the school as a learning
organisation
• Innovating PD through empowering learners and organisations
outside of school
• Innovative forms of delivering the PD
• Innovative partnerships to create the PD
• Innovating PD through teacher networks
• Innovating PD through degree programmes
Check
the paper
annex!
8. Features
• Multiple actors in the school
• PD takes place onsite in school
• Time set aside to collaborate,
team-teach, peer-observe
• Coaching support (by external or
internal one), peer mentoring
• One learns how to collaborate with
colleagues in thier own context
(curriculum, resources)
• Proven models that work elsewhere
(e.g. Lean-manufacturing, Sinus for math)
Workarounds
• Fitted into the work schedule
(demands time allocation by
school head)
• Supported by employer
• No need to commute
1. Innovation in PD that focuses on the school
as a learning organisation
9. Features
• Often focus on transversal skills through
hands-on
• To learn how to teach them, one
first needs to experience it
• Empowering learners to exercise agency
• Student become teachers to others,
mentor fellow students
• Disruptive models of PD
• Shadow a student-challenge
• Pedagogical hackathons
• Pop-up school
Workarounds
• PD topics are those that teachers
say they need: future skills,
student counselling
• Teachers learn by experiencing it
first-hand ("eat your own dog food")
2. Innovating PD through empowering learners and
organisations outside of school
10. Features
• Digital delivery still a novelty and new
forms emerge, e.g. MOOCs, micro-
learning & nano courses
• Lots of variations in length and depth of
the content to match teachers time-
constraints
• Blended learning re-invented:
• Traditional online courses mixed with
onsite in-school practical hands-on
periods with authentic tasks
• A reflective session to review the
experience and what was learnt
Workarounds
• Digital delivery helps avoid conflicts with
work schedule
• Hands-on sessions in class add a
component of active learning, help
transfer knowledge into practice and
root PD in one's own context
• Reflective sessions with experts and
colleagues allow teachers to solicit
feedback
3. Innovative forms of delivering the PD
11. Features
• Social partners, e.g. philanthropy,
foundations
• As (accredited) providers of PD
• Creating content of PD
• Partnering-up
• Industry involved, but in "our own"
terms
• For teachers by teachers:
teacher entrepreneurial activities
generating (social) value for the
community
Workarounds
• Social partners can offer
privileged PD topics and bring in
new perspectives
• Teacher micro-entrepreneurs
reinvent career paths within
teaching profession
4. Innovative partnerships to create PD
12. Features
• No more traditional "online only"
networks but ones that start blending
digital and physical activities in the
professional context – "the best of both
worlds"
• Teacher networks, supported by social
networks such as Twitter and FB groups,
start to be supported/organised by
education authorities, not only by
informal networks
• Micro-learning opportunities through
Twitter and TeachMeets offer informal
ways of learning that emerging research
shows teachers find of use and satisfying
Workarounds
• Micro-learning can help to make
time for PD within otherwise busy
work schedule
• Support for teacher networks
start emerging by school heads
and ed authorities – making the
best out of top-down and bottom-
up
5. Innovating PD through teacher networks
13. Features
• Degree programmes in tertiary
education start reinventing themselves
to better answer to teachers' PD needs
• Programmes mix non-traditional topics
and include those that are not part of
traditional teaching degrees
• Programmes also mix more traditional
academic work with online and active
hands-on experiences
• Not all qualification programmes are
accredited through traditional methods
Workarounds
• Traditionally rigid degree
programmes add appealing topics
to their offerings by offering
"non-traditional" or "private
degrees"
• Foundations start offering
stipends for their degree
programmes to help financing
6. Innovating PD through qualification programmes
14. Outline
Vuorikari, R., Kampylis, P. (2018). Emerging, innovative practices
of teacher professional development addressing the changing needs.
A. Context, aim of the study and the research question
B. Presentation of Results with some examples
C. Take away message
15. Yes, we are starting to see
some changes
• In our study, we have shown that there
are emerging new models and features
of teacher professional development and
learning that can go around the
known barriers of teacher PD and
thus better address the needs of
teachers in today's society.
• We have labeled them in 6 areas based
on the main focus of innovation.
• Many overlapping features between
these labels, so some examples contain
many of these features.
But…
• These features and models are not
necessarily very known yet by
providers of teacher PD, they are not
streamlined in current offerings, and not
at scale yet.
• Many examples are offered outside of
"official" PD provision with no
accreditation or other support
mechanisms – is that a problem?
• Their impact of these features on
changing teachers' classroom practices
and enhancing student learning
outcomes need more research.
So, how are teachers' needs addressed in terms
of better organised PD offerings?
16. Future work on Teacher PD in the JRC
• JRC will publish a report with 1-page
descriptions of all 30 examples and first
analysis of the main features (by end 2018)
• Case studies with more in-depth analysis and
recommendations will follow
• The reports will feed into discussion among
educational policymakers and education
authorities to inspire change for more
excellent teaching and learning in the
future!
17. Have you come
across PD with
a wow factor?
Contact, comments, questions: Riina.Vuorikari@ec.europa.eu
Editor's Notes
85% of teachers in EU participated in PD activities in the 12 months prior to the survey (according to the last TALIS study, looking at the data for those EU countries that participated =17 countries + two regions).
Our study is descriptive and the 30 examples were chosen not because they are the best of all available ones, but because they exemplify well these new emergent features at a general level.
Darling-Hammond, L., Hyler, M. E., Gardner, M.: Effective Teacher Professional Development. Learning Policy Institute, Palo Alto, CA (2017).
The authors define effective professional development "as structured professional learning that results in changes in teacher practices and improvements in student learning outcomes." After a review of 35 methodologically rigorous studies, the authors outlined seven features most of which effective professional learning seem to incorporate. In the final study, we analyse our cases using this framework.
The labelling used to describe the focus of innovation in PD examples is not hierarchal or categorical (i.e. there is one correct way to classify each item only in one place) as many of the examples have similar traits and they could, therefore, exist under many of the labels. So in a way, these can also be called features, as they are important parts of many of the examples.
The examples are presented in Table 2 which also indicates
(1) how the delivery is conducted (online; onsite in school, out of school);
(2) the type of PD using an enriched TALIS vocabulary (e.g. courses/workshops, conferences or seminars, observation visits to other schools, qualification programme, participation in a network of teachers; individual or collaborative research, mentoring and/or peer observation and coaching, and school based collaborative PD),
(3) education and training provider ranging from national/regional educational authorities to non-profits, corporate providers or even individuals and new educational entrepreneurs in the field,
(4) whether the focus is on individual teacher or school, for example. Last, the wide range of content areas becomes evident from the titles
(5) addressing the issue of teachers’ PD needs (Table 1, rightmost row).
LeerKRACHT in NL (750 schools participating )
A swedish example of PD for Math teachers with a participation rate of some 75% at the nation wide (Subject-specific PD through content modules, collegial learning and peer tutoring)
Other examples
Finland: Schools as local PD providers https://www.oph.fi/kehittamishankkeet/kehittamiskouluverkosto/aineistoa
Finland: Innokas network - a schook-based maker-space as a way to robotics http://innokas.fi
Belgium (Fr): Prof’Essorhttp://enseignement.catholique.be/segec/index.php?id=2239
SELFIE (EU): Self-reflection tool for digitally capable schools https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/digcomporg/selfie-tool
1. Cyprus: Teacher PD course to train students to train others https://youngcoaches.pi.ac.cy/
2. Finland: PopUp Schoolhttps://www.popupkoulu.fi/
3. France: “Creathon” and “Hackathon in eTwinning” https://www.reseau-canope.fr/notice/le-hackathon-pedagogique.html
4. Shadow a Student- challenge http://shadowastudent.org/
Mixing hands-on; Online and face-to-face delivery:
11. Be- Fl: Media coach to integrate media literacy into organization
Reaching masses through digital delivery:
12. Slovenia: Blended teacher PD courses
13. Croatia: New content and new delivery of teacher professional development
14. Portugal: in-serve training course for mentoring student
Small chunks and online content for busy teachers:
15. Spain: Online learning opportunities from nano-units to MOOCs http://aprende.intef.es/
16. US: Video as a tool to peer-observation (Teaching Channel) https://www.teachingchannel.org/teachers
Examples about social partners:
20. Italy: Accredited CPD courses in STEM by a philanthropist http://www.fondazionegolinelli.com/the-six-project-areas/
21. Oxfam: Students peer-mentoring fellow students of migrant background http://edu.oxfam.it/erasmusplus/portfolio-view/intercultural-mentoring/
22. Slovakia (with British Council): EnglishOne, a wide-range of resources and support for teaching https://anglictina.iedu.sk/
Industry involvement:
17. Belgium (Fl): FYXXLAB - an educational out of school, onsite in school makerspace open to all schools https://www.fyxxi.be/
Also in Lithuanian teacher network (Apple)
Teacher-entrepreneurs
18. Estonia-Finland: Cross-border PD course for system-level innovation in education
Thinking outside the box:
19. Finland: swapping schools to experiment with phenomenon-based learning https://www.sitra.fi/blogit/opettajat-koulutuksessa-nappikaupasta-rohkeisiin-ratkaisuihin/
Examples
23. Lithuania: iKlase - a grass-root teacher network fostering micro-entrepreneurial opportunities http:// iKlase.lt
24. Iceland: MOOCs by Education Plazahttp://menntamidja.is/education-plaza/
25. EU initiative: eTwinning http://etwinning.net
26. Opportunities of micro-learning for teacher PD
Examples of degree programmes in tertiary education (a cohesive whole of course components, aimed at achieving clearly defined exit qualifications).
Classical accredited graduate programme in the area of digital teaching
28. Finland: post-graduate programmes for “Digi”-teacher http://www.uef.fi/web/erikoistumiskoulutus-digiope/opetussuunnitelmateksti
Entrepreneurship in VET PD
29. DK: “Practical Entrepreneurship” course for VET teachers http://www.ffe-ye.dk/undervisning/efteruddannelser/indsats-for-efteruddannelse/projekt-fagligt-entreprenoerskab-eud
New types of content for teacher PD programmes
27. Spain: Laboratory for new education http://master.fundacionginer.org/modulo.html
30. Czech Republic: Live teacher - a training course for future teachers https://www.ucitelnazivo.cz/en/