Anne Wade and Philip Abrami recently posted an update on their ongoing work with the LTK+ (specifically ABRACADABRA) in Kenya to the GPE KIX website. The blog post focuses on successful teacher professional development (TPD) and its impact on student outcomes.
Wade and Abrami, along with co-author Christian Durand, write that “in our approach to TPD, now using a blended approach, we have focused on both the skill and will components of technology integration into everyday classroom routines. We not only focus on what to do, but why and how, using a process of initial TPD guided by the evidence, followed by ongoing support. And especially for teacher motivation (the “will” component), we’ve adopted an important theory well suited to the challenges of educational innovation known as Expectancy-Value. This model posits that innovative practices are related to positive expectations of success, valuing of transformative experiences and minimization of perceived costs.”