Friday, July 4, 2008

Inspiration for a research project

Four teachers attending the Australian Summer School for English Teachers at Deacon University decided to undertake an action research project. This was an initiative by the Federal Government to lift the profile and status of teachers across the country.

We met at the summer school; Julie Bain, Louise Cullen, Karen Farrow and Paul Gough, found common ground in their discussions about using and integrating information and communications technologies (ICTs) within their teaching practice within their respective schools and systems. Three of the teachers, Louise, Karen and Paul teach in Queensland, while Julie teaches in New South Wales. Karen, Paul and Julie are secondary school teachers, while Louise teaches primary school students. The range of technologies that are used in their teaching provided a focus for their action research into the different ways teachers use ICTs in their individual teaching practice, with the aim of finding some common ground in terms of teaching/learning/assessment.

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