Evidencing professional development on a teacher education programme

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Evidencing professional development on a teacher
education programme

• Iain Kitchener
• and Rita Headington

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Our objectives

• To explore the use of e-portfolios as a
  collection tool outside the VLE
• To give students an opportunity to use the
  familiar context of technology to explore the
  potential of an e-portfolio to collect together a
  range of evidence in an expanded range of formats
  for assessment
• To provide opportunities for reflection on
  personal and professional development

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Our context

• Professional Development course
• 6 sessions through the year
• PDP, study skills etc leading to summative
  assignment
• 15 first year students our personal tutees

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What we did

• Traditional introduction to PDP
• Introduction to PebblePad over two/three
  sessionslearning together!
• Logging in
• Personalisation
• Exploring resources
• Sharing assets

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Students use of PebblePad

• Amandas personalisation and learning journal
• Cheries personalisation and layout of work
• Jessicas academic achievements

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The problems we encountered

• Only being one step ahead!
• Lack of time to bring students together
• Overlap with our own VLE
• Nature of our PDP
• summative
• underdeveloped

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What we liked

• Opportunity for reflection
• Personalisation
• Selective asset sharing

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Where next?

• Training for ourselves!
• Review of PDP practice
• A continuing trial with this cohort
• A further trial with a new cohort?

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But our questions remain

• Can an e-portfolio support our students
  learning?
• Is it a technology too far?