Intellectual Output 1 - CPD Framework
Led by the University of Education Karlsruhe (Germany), the Intellectual Output 1 comprises a theoretical framework of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) that was developed for the context of foreign and second language learning and teaching. To develop this framework, the partners integrated a variety of already existing models of CPD. Further, it was their aim to present innovative approaches to foster reflective practices and promote processes of CPD among their participants. The overall aim of IO1 was to contextualize CPD and make it more adaptable in the context of foreign and second language learning and teaching at university level. Moreover, we wanted to fill the gap between researchers and practitioners by integrating practical and evidence-based examples and activities.
As a basis for the study programme (IO3), the partners developed an online handbook in the form of a digital working document. This handbook inculdes some theoretical, more general, but also context-specific concepts of CPD, as well as practical examples and research-oriented tasks and activities that support reflective practices. Together we decided to use a digital working document in form of a Google Presentation to have a certain flexibility and openess giving gives us the possibility to constantly add things and improve it collaboratively.
As part of the online handbook, our participating student teachers were given a variety of problem-oriented assignments that comprised different issues from the field of CPD and are connected to a study abroad experience. Constantly, the participants were supported by the project partners, the teacher educators. As a key component of the project, mobile devices serve to creatively develop and apply theory and research to practice. In course of the project, the prospective teachers developed and designed open creative and media-based products (e.g. an interactive iBook) - see IO7. Likewise, the project partners as teacher educators also worked together, linking their distinct expertise and experience to create a number of interactive tutorials in form of eight multimodal iBooks (IO4) that comprise the know-how and best-practice examples how mobile technologies can be used for CPD, as well as methods of research-oriented learning and teaching.
Our intention is that this IO1 can be adapted and used in various curricula along with the other project outputs. At its best, it will be used to implement a similar framework as our study programme, inluding a short stay abroad.
As part of the online handbook, our participating student teachers were given a variety of problem-oriented assignments that comprised different issues from the field of CPD and are connected to a study abroad experience. Constantly, the participants were supported by the project partners, the teacher educators. As a key component of the project, mobile devices serve to creatively develop and apply theory and research to practice. In course of the project, the prospective teachers developed and designed open creative and media-based products (e.g. an interactive iBook) - see IO7. Likewise, the project partners as teacher educators also worked together, linking their distinct expertise and experience to create a number of interactive tutorials in form of eight multimodal iBooks (IO4) that comprise the know-how and best-practice examples how mobile technologies can be used for CPD, as well as methods of research-oriented learning and teaching.
Our intention is that this IO1 can be adapted and used in various curricula along with the other project outputs. At its best, it will be used to implement a similar framework as our study programme, inluding a short stay abroad.
The CPD framework consists of six input sessions and various other activities that connect the other project outputs and together represent the IO3, the study programme. Module I.A, Module I.B and Module II.C are provided face-2-face to a local group of students at each partner institution. Module I.C and Module II.B are taken online. Throughout these modules the students are supported and coached online by their local teacher educators. The study week, Module II.A is the only module where the groups mix and form a transnational group of students visiting a partner institution. For further information on the study week, click here.
To develop the CPD framework, we started with researching literature containing theoretical concepts, research studies and investigations on CPD in the context of foreign and second language learning and teaching. Further, we collected a variety of best-practice examples which contextualise and establish CPD programmes in teacher education in a more general sense. Thereby we focused on approaches that use innovative practices (e.g. research-orientation) and above all integrate mobile technologies. As a theoretical basis for the study programme (IO3) a theoretical concept of CPD was developed and put into a multimodal online handbook in form of an online Google Presentation:
It includes perspectives on and theories of CPD in the context of foreign and second language learning and teaching at university level and a selection of innovative strategies and methods to promote CPD. Developing this framework transnationally promoted a discursive dialogue among the project partners about their own professional identity as foreign and second language teacher educators. The handbook further provides a catalogue of suggestions for other teacher educators on how to embed CPD in Higher Education. The final version of the handbook was created in 2018, but modified slightly after every cohort of students.
You can also download the pdf version of the CPD framework:
| propic_io1_online_handbook_2020.pdf |
