IDEAL FUTURE Work Package 3 Pedagogical Model

16 In an ideal world, professional development would include both the practical side and networking where specialists from different fields come together. Professional development should include more than listening to presentations - it should also include practical testing (LV, leader). Figure 9: Preferred mode of professional learning Situated learning was described in many narratives, opportunities for school visits, team/co-teaching was seen as a transformative way of contextualised learning in practice. Interviewees were particularly interested in visiting schools either locally or internationally – seeing teachers teach and learning from them. Imagine that like I would go and shadow a teacher or digital learner in another school where I could go and get ideas and come back and actually see them working in place (IE P2) Some people want to go maybe, for a week, go to another school. You know, to kind of, learn more from other people or other teachers, like (IE P6) Others spoke about how they would like to co-teach or team teach with people. Interestingly participants were more interested in working with people from other schools rather than their own. This might be related to the cultural concerns raised in the challenges section. In the courses, time should be set aside for opportunities to exchange experiences - with the understanding that training participants have time to show their skills and knowledge, as often they are very rich and diverse, and the participants could gain a lot from each other (LV, in-service teacher, 7 years). I'd love to, you know, like yeah, go into another school and have someone team teaching me, you know, for a year or something…. share my time between here and other school like. It could be the extra time that I get now I could go down and visit the primary school and do coding with them. (IE P5) This was sometimes used instead of peer observation as teachers can replicate practice, coteaching would provide opportunities for both to contribute to a lesson while learning from each other. It would also allow them to collaborate on the planning process not just the delivery. There needs to be a lot of work done beforehand that can work well. The only problem is I feel they just go to and replicate your lesson. So, unless I have them up there teaching with me and they do Hybrid 41% Face to Face 28% Variety of Modes 17% Online 12% Other 2% Hybrid Face to Face Variety of Modes Online Other