Work Package 3 Literature Review

Figure 5: Average duration of professional learning by level (in months) The average duration of pre-service training was 6 months. Most professional learning for pre- service teachers is in the form of Initial teacher education within a university course and so often digital learning is 3-month modules. Of the 33 pre-service studies 25 of these were three months or less. Furthermore, the characteristics or types of learning activities individuals engage with at levels of professional learning varies. Those at the higher levels of proficiency engaged in a larger number of activities in their professional learning; those at the knowledge awareness level engaged in an average of 3.22 activities, knowledge deepening an average of 4.53 and leadership 5.07 activities. In addition, there was a broader range of learning activities in the deepening level of proficiency compared to the awareness and leadership levels. For Deepening the activities ranged across 39 different types compared to 28 at knowledge awareness and 34 at leadership. The type of activities had some similarity with formal and reflective based activities being widely used across all three levels of proficiency. Innovation and co design activities were more prevalent at knowledge deepening and leadership levels. With dissemination, piloting, leading professional learning and modelling activities being adopted mainly at leadership levels. This indicates as levels of proficiency increase so does collaboration networks and outward dissemination and knowledge sharing. 0 5 10 15 20 25 Knowledge awareness Knowledge deepening Leadership Average Duration in months