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Presentation made to the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (EASI) Conference 2011

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Vitall Project Video Ideas for Teaching & Learning Languages

A partnership approach to professional development of language teachers

Céline Healy, Kevin McDermott Angela Rickard & Karen Ruddock

ESAI Conference: 15th April 2011

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• Who?

– Education Department, NUI Maynooth;

– Post-Primary Languages Initiative (PPLI);

– Professional Development Service for Teachers Languages Section (PDST);

– Portlaoise Education Centre;

– National Digital Learning Repository (NDLR) [project funding support];

– Language teachers & learners.

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• What?

– Open online archive of short video recordings

– language teaching ideas

– real classrooms in Ireland.

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• Why? – Professional development of pre-service and

in-service Modern Languages teachers– Links to other language teachers (esp. lesser

taught languages)– Encourage & support innovative, active

methodologies – Capturing authentic classroom practice– Provide a focus for reflection & discussion of

teaching & learning

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• How exactly?

– Agreed broadly the themes & list of teachers to be approached (based on ‘insider knowledge’)

– Schools contacted, times agreed, etc.

– Teachers’ ‘thinking about language teaching’

• Living Theory

• Appreciative inquiry

– Recordings, edits, discussions, revisions…

• Raising questions about what is ‘innovative’…

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• A forum for cooperation & dialogue: – within and between different language associations &

subject depts. in schools

• Link pre-service and in-service language teachers and methodology lecturers

• Establishing links among methodology lecturers across different Schools of Education – Students – Lecturers

• Professional development of TP supervisors– Concrete samples of good practice

• Value to other subjects/disciplines

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Questions emerging?

• How is innovative practice supported and encouraged in schools?

• How is this captured and, indeed, who defines innovative practice in the first place?

• What informs the choice of topic for recording?

• How do we reckon success or the educative value of the classroom interactions?

• How are teachers facilitated to become critics of their own practice?