In the previous blog post I reflected on the work that has been done with the Initial Teacher Education tutors and students over the past few months. In this post I want to record our ideas for how we feel this project will evolve in the coming months.
The students are currently on teaching placement and on their return we are hoping to evaluate how the use of iPads has informed and impacted their own teaching and classroom assessment practice.
One future plan is to use iPads for recording the university-based assemblies and lessons. This will allow the students who are presenting the opportunity to reflect on their own performance and practice. We will do this using the Camtasia Relay’s iPad Fuse app. This app will allow us to record the session and instantly upload it to the institution’s media library. The students will then be able to review this with their tutor in the discussion at the end of the session.
I have mentioned the limitations of the eClicker app in my previous post; we are now looking at an alternate solution to e-Clicker the software used to provide instant feedback after the teaching sessions and assemblies. The students have expressed that they would like to be able to provide some written feedback when answering some of the questions to justify the feedback they have provided. One potential solution we are looking at is to use Socrative – an online student response system.
Another development we may consider is the opportunity for the group delivering the lesson or assembly to set their own feedback criteria. This will allow them to control the aspects of the feedback that the students feel is most relevant to them in terms of progression – a more targeted approach that will allow them to focus specifically on their areas for development.
We will post further updates related to Initial Teacher Education further in April when the students are back from placements.