Reflection on the TPACK assignment PART 3

3. Reflection on the product à professional development program

3.1 Does the development program has an added value for teacher to support the integration of technology in their teaching?

I really think that the training itself has an added value for teacher to support the integration of technology. By inform the teachers about TPACK in a practical way they will become aware of the benefits. Beceause they where actively involved in the designing process they feel owner of the designed lesson plan form. Although I think that teachers (in primary school and teacher trainer education) are not going to use the lesson plan form for preparing their own lesson, they will adapt the TPACK idea in their way of teaching. I think we managed to do this by let them become enthusiastic about  the topic and being aware of the benefits of technology in education.

At the other hand I also think that the results of this program the lesson plan form will be helpful for students of the teacher training education. These “future’’ teacher will practice their lesson preparation for their internship by using lesson plan forms. If they use the lesson plan form in which TPACK is integrated they “grow up” with it. So that it will be a normal thing that technology is integrated in their lessons.

3.2 How will the professional development program support flexible learning?

It think that the professional development program will not support flexible learning directly. I do think that the results influence flexible learning indirectly. By using technology combined with pedagogy and content they create all the preconditions for flexible learning. It is to the teachers and students them self to develop a flexible lesson with the help of a TPACK integrated lesson plan form.

3.3 What did I learn from the professional development program?

What I learned from our professional development program is that you need to training teachers in an active way. If you want to inform them about a complex model like TPACK it is important to segment all the information and let them practice with all the segments. At the end you can combine the different segments so that TPACK becomes clear.