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Presentation to Network 16 at EERA-ECER 2014 Reports research demonstrating that teachers prefer more challenging content on cognition to simply downloading lesson plans
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Evaluating a resource for online teacher professional development across four continents: the MESH Guide to Spelling
Colin Harrison, University of Nottingham Marilyn Leask, University of BedfordshireRichard Proctor, University of BedfordshireSarah Younie, De Montfort University
Who uses it? When? How?
… and Why?
The MESH Guide to Teaching Spelling
What is it?
Who uses it? … and Why?
The MESH Guide to Teaching Spelling
“Online teacher professional development has increased exponentially, [but] evidence of the effectiveness of such self-directed learning is often anecdotal and based on immediate rather than long-term impact” (Dede, 2009).
The MESH Guide to Teaching Spelling
“Online teacher professional development has increased exponentially, [but] evidence of the effectiveness of such self-directed learning is often anecdotal and based on immediate rather than long-term impact” (Dede, 2009).
Self-directed learning
The MESH Guide to Teaching Spelling
“Online teacher professional development has increased exponentially, [but] evidence of the effectiveness of such self-directed learning is often anecdotal and based on immediate rather than long-term impact” (Dede, 2009).
Plan B Plan CPlan A
Plan D
Plan B Plan CPlan A
Plan D
Plan E
Plan B Plan CPlan A
Plan D
Plan E
Plan E
Plan E
What is MESH??
What is MESH?
What is MESH?•Mapping Educational Specialist knowHow•A global partnership•A quality assured 'wikipedia' of professional knowledge for teaching •http://www.meshguides.org/•All resources are free
What is the MESH Guide to Teaching Spelling?•“A quality assured 'wikipedia' of professional knowledge for teaching spelling” (My Dad, personal communication, 2014)
•http://www.richprocter.co.uk/cgi-bin/pathways/spelling.pl
• Site visit data - Google Analytics: How many?
Who is using the MESH Guide to Teaching Spelling?•Questionnaire - Google Docs•Site visit data - Google Analytics
• Questionnaire - Google Docs
• Site visit data - Google Analytics: From where?
• Site visit data - Google Analytics: Country
OECD?
• Google Analytics: How is the site being used?
• Google Analytics: How is the site being used?• Which pages are popular? Theory or Resources?
• Google Analytics: How is the site being used?• Which pages are popular? Theory or Resources?
Plan E
123 January- 18 AugN = 1,570 site visits
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12 3 4
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12 3 4
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Plan E
12 3 4
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Plan E
What does accommodation involve?
• It is multifactorial:• New theories of how
children learn• New discourse tools• New schemata for
pedagogy• It involves restructuring
cognitive architecture• It requires criticality• It implies provisionality
and uncertainty
What is the take-home message from this data?
1,221 teachers from 50 nations want well-informed theory to develop theirpractice more than they want resources
Evaluating a resource for online teacher professional development across four continents: the MESH Guide to Spelling
Colin Harrison, University of Nottingham Marilyn Leask, University of BedfordshireRichard Proctor, University of BedfordshireSarah Younie, De Montfort University
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