It has been a while since my last post.. Not that I was not working on the course, I was pretty busy working on it actually, and now I will write something about that period. What did I do?
For the course ‘Pedagogies’ we had to work on the final assignment to finish the course. In groups of four students we could choose to design a lesson based on TPACK or to develop a professional development based on TPACK. My group, with Jeffrey, Mariëtte and Simone, choose to work on the professional development assignment, as most of the groups did. We thought this would be most interesting for us and most challenging. Because three of us are teachers, designing a lesson would not be so hard. Developing a professional development is more the kind of work we imagine to do when we are graduated… Nice to try it out! We had four weeks to work on it and after we finished we had to present what we have developed to the other groups.
I will not tell in detail what we have developed here, in short we have developed a professional development program for primary school teachers and educational training teachers in which they learn about TPACK and apply what they have learned by designing a lesson plan form for student teachers to use in their internships. In this way we reach not only the teachers of today, but also the teachers of the future.
When we started to work on the assignment we were all very enthusiastic about what we were going to do. Simone can up with a very good idea to work out the assignment directly and we all agreed that that was a good idea to work out. The first time we came together we discussed a lot about how to shape the rough ideas and worked out what we should do. We had all good ideas but we could not work out everything so we had to choose and clearly define a plan. Because of the time pressure we felt that we could not just try something and decide later if we are on a good way, but that we had to make a good plan before we could work something out. I experienced that we all were really conscious about that and that we did not lose time but that we came directly to the point and worked effectively. All members of our group brought something different because we all are very different and have different background. I think that we used that in a very positive way and that was an added value for our group. We listened to ideas of each other and we added something and discussed about it. I have experienced it as a very pleasant collaboration!
After we had worked out our rough ideas we decided that it would be best to think everything over and come together one week later to work out the ideas together. That was important to really take care that we are all still at one line and work it out in such a way that we, after that meeting, could split up some work. We discovered that we almost had the same thought about it, so it was good to talk it over and got at one line. Together we worked out the main ideas for the program and all choose something to do for the next meeting. It seemed that we all wanted to do a different aspect of the assignment and we all agreed that we had to work on an aspect we are good at! We agreed that next week we all had done a great part of the job, and if we discovered some difficulties that we could ask each other for help; we stayed in touch with each other by email. Because we clearly decided who would do what, everyone did what he or she had to do. The nest meeting we talked about what we did and what should be done to finish. We split up in couples to work out what we still had to do and agreed that what was not finished should be done at home. We again distributed the job and we finished it in time!
Concluding
I really enjoyed working in this group because the collaboration was very good! We listed well to each other and worked effectively. The division of coming together and work things out by yourself was pleasant and we really made use of what we are good at.
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