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Impactful CPD Programme: Enhancing Classroom Dialogue with Interactive Whiteboards

This CPD programme aims to improve the quality of classroom dialogue by using interactive whiteboards. Teachers will engage in workshops, trial new approaches, and receive a resource bank for lesson planning.

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Impactful CPD Programme: Enhancing Classroom Dialogue with Interactive Whiteboards

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  1. CPD PROGRAMMEUSING A CPD WORKSHOP PROGRAMME TO IMPACT ON THE QUALITY OF CLASSROOM DIALOGUE SUPPORTED BY THE INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD

  2. OUTLINE Introduction (background) Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Resource bank Lesson planning Ideas for follow up

  3. WHAT IS THE CPD PROGRAMME ABOUT?BACKGROUND A resource for school-based CPD (5 co-authors) has been published by Open University Press The aims of this resource are: to guide us in building on what we do now by trying out some new ideas for using the IWB in our classroom; to offer a tool for analysing classroom interaction – how could using the IWB help to improve the quality? It links to freely available online resources

  4. WHAT IS THE CPD PROGRAMME ABOUT?BACKGROUND The existing online resources include: annotated screenshots, video clips of dialogic classroom practice in which students build knowledge together, IWB software templates for lesson activities, and face-to-face workshop activities.

  5. WHAT IS THE CPD PROGRAMME ABOUT?SO FAR… 7 pilot workshops FEEDBACK: Which part of the workshop was most valuable for you? “Working on a task that could be used in the classroom. Reinforcing and clarifying the aim of a dialogic approach to teaching and learning.”

  6. WHAT IS THE CPD PROGRAMME ABOUT?FEEDBACK “The template provides great ideas and easy to adapt Smart Notebook resources. It is valuable being able to spend time developing resources that can be used in the classroom.” “Being shown a variety of IWB resources that I could include in my own practice. Sharing ideas with colleagues.”

  7. WHAT IS THE CPD PROGRAMME ABOUT?ACTIVITIES We’ll be offering the CPD programme free to around 100 teachers in up to 5 locations during this term and testing its impact. We appreciate your participation.

  8. WHAT IS THE CPD PROGRAMME ABOUT?ACTIVITIES The CPD programme activities involve: 2 workshops engaging with the resource in each location (school cluster), with teachers trialling new approaches in between (minimum of 3 weeks between the workshops), one person (“ambassador”) in each location organising the CPD scheduling and co-leading the 2 workshops with our researcher, involving up to 20 teachers / workshop

  9. WHAT IS THE CPD PROGRAMME ABOUT?ACTIVITIES The CPD programme activities involve: teachers answering a short survey at the beginning and taking part in an (individual or group) interview at the end of the CPD programme. participants reflecting on what they think has worked well and sharing some examples of what they did in the classroom.

  10. WHAT WILL TEACHERS GET OUT OF THE CPD PROGRAMME ?BENEFITS Benefits for participating teachers and schools include: free CPD workshops (refreshments provided) and development of own dialogic teaching practice through discussing and testing other practitioners’ teaching materials and creating their own, each participating teacher, ambassador and head teacher will get a copy of the published CPD resource book (worth £25)

  11. WHAT WILL TEACHERS GET OUT OF THE CPD PROGRAMME ?BENEFITS Benefits for participating teachers and schools include: access to an evolving pool of innovative IWB-based teaching ideas, flipcharts and other materials for use across subjects and key stages, a report on the impact of the CPD programme.

  12. CPD PROGRAMMEACTIVITIES AND BENEFITS

  13. ACTIVITY 1 - DISCUSSIONCLASSROOM TALK AND DIALOGUE • How do you currently use talk in lessons? • How important is focus on talk? • What barriers are there to using talk as a tool for learning? • What do you understand by the term ‘dialogic’ teaching?

  14. DIALOGUE TABLE BY DIANE RAWLINS Dialogue table Extended dialogue table

  15. DOES MY OWN TEACHING SUPPORT DIALOGUE?ACTIVITY 2 You could ‘audit’ your practice using the (expanded) dialogue table. Do you do some or all of this now? Look at column 1 again: Is the ethos in your classroom supportive for dialogue? Could you make it more supportive?

  16. Derived from Diane Rawlins' table, here are some concrete, specific elements that can foster dialogic teaching and learning. Activity Can we 1) mind-map detail about our own school and practice; 2) draw connections between these elements? Subject knowledge School policy Student responsibility Support staff (TAs etc.) Plan for discussion Teacher ready to learn, to change

  17. VIDEO EXAMPLE 1 Annotating a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I on the interactive whiteboard A clip illustrating classroom dialogue in a secondary school history lesson. Students in turn annotated a portrait of the young Queen Elizabeth projected onto the IWB and interpreted their peers’ thinking

  18. VIDEO EXAMPLE 2 Using open-ended prompts on the interactive whiteboard and children’s recorded voices to stimulate discussion A clip from a primary school lesson on keeping secrets, illustrating use of open-ended prompts, an image and audio recordings by children (aged 10), to stimulate discussion.

  19. VIDEO EXAMPLE 3 Using text and pictures on the IWB to stimulate interest and initial dialogue in English This clip illustrates how teacher uses text and pictures on the IWB to stimulate interest and initial dialogue in English.

  20. Can we think of any classroom activities in which talk, just talking (e.g. pair discussion, speech giving etc.) might be set up to become more dialogic? Should ‘talk’ always become dialogic? Can ‘talk’ be seful as ‘just talk’ ?

  21. ACTIVITY 3 - DISCUSSION Technology IWB iPad smartphone Projector DvD Calculator etc. Reasserting the human context around technology Based on the technology that you already have at your disposal, can you come up with a stimulus/activity/feature that incorporates this technology for dialogic learning?

  22. THINK ABOUT AN UP AND COMING LESSON OF YOUR OWN … Explore the ’Resource Bank’ and collection of video clips Are any of these ideas useful to you? What other applications of them can you think of? What might be effective with your particular students?

  23. IDEAS FOR FOLLOW UP Teacher strategies for supporting dialogue with the IWB …

  24. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

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