“But All We Really Wanted was a Course!”: Teacher Professional Development for Innovative Teaching with ICT

TY - GEN

T1 - “But All We Really Wanted was a Course!”

T2 - EdMedia 2016 - World Conference on Educational Media and Technology

AU - Kjærgaard, Hanne Wacher

AU - Fougt, Simon Skov

PY - 2016/6/30

Y1 - 2016/6/30

N2 - This article describes a professional development project for teachers that aimed at developing innovative teaching with ICT in a 21st-century understanding of the term innovative. The article describes the result of the intervention and the practice-based method used for this professional development project. Data from teacher planning, observations, interviews and document study are used to describe the poor outcome for the 8th-grade foreign-language teachers involved. We suggest five reasons for why the teachers did not manage to live up to the criteria for innovative teaching but persisted in conducting traditional teaching, where ICT was never integrated in their subject teaching in relevant and appropriate, value-adding ways: First, the students’ level of the foreign language; second, an unstable interaction with consultants; third, the teachers’ struggle to find their roles; fourth, competing rationales; and fifth, a dated understanding of their subjects.

AB - This article describes a professional development project for teachers that aimed at developing innovative teaching with ICT in a 21st-century understanding of the term innovative. The article describes the result of the intervention and the practice-based method used for this professional development project. Data from teacher planning, observations, interviews and document study are used to describe the poor outcome for the 8th-grade foreign-language teachers involved. We suggest five reasons for why the teachers did not manage to live up to the criteria for innovative teaching but persisted in conducting traditional teaching, where ICT was never integrated in their subject teaching in relevant and appropriate, value-adding ways: First, the students’ level of the foreign language; second, an unstable interaction with consultants; third, the teachers’ struggle to find their roles; fourth, competing rationales; and fifth, a dated understanding of their subjects.

KW - ICT and Language teaching

KW - ICT in schools

KW - ICT and innovative teachin

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85017012354&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - ISBN 978-1-939797-24-7

VL - 25

SP - 841

EP - 852

BT - Proceedings of EdMedia

A2 - Veletsianos, George

PB - AACE: Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education

Y2 - 28 June 2016 through 30 June 2016

ER -