Encouraging teachers to become research-active ATEE 2010 Budapest Marion de Bie Marcel van der Klink

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 2 Encouraging teachers to become research-active Marion de Bie, teacher coach Ruud de Moor Centrum Open Universiteit Marcel van der Klink, associate professor Centre for Learning Sciences and Technology Open Universiteit

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 3 Encouraging teachers to become research-active Expansion of teaching tasks and responsibilities affect the ways of teacher professionalisation Teaching is more than conducting lessons in a prescribed manner Teacher as professional Attention for teachers research Schools offer opportunities / resources for conducting practice- based research In teacher education curricula more emphasis on acquisition research competences (see other presentations on this ATEE conference)

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 4 Encouraging teachers to become research-active What does research actually mean? In fact research is a basic form of learning for students as for teachers,…..but it also has developped into specific forms of (scientific) collective learning research (S.Bolhuis, 2010) Research different goals: practitioners’ research versus academic theory-driven research Teaching and research demand a different mind set

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 5 Encouraging teachers to become research-active Teaching differs from researching in the organisation & application of knowledge different set of mind Teachers knowledge about teaching is mainly organized from a learners perspective, forms base for helping students understand specific concepts vs. Researchers organise their knowledge in order to allow them to know) what facts are already proven, what assumptions and hypotheses need further attention (Kirchin & Hay, 2007)

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 6 Encouraging teachers to become research-active 3 schools offered a trajectory to professionalise fully qualified and experienced teachers (experienced ‘eerstegraders’) In coöperation with Ruud de Moor Centrum OUNL 16 participants from 3 schools 13 joined project successfully

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 7 Encouraging teachers to become research-active Teachers were free to choose subject and research method - action research, - literature review, - evaluation research etc. Topics: –Improving motivation of HAVO-pupils – Profile developing for secondary education is to identify HAVO and VWO-stream. – New methods in the French language learning curriculum (AIM Accelerated Integrated Method) and implementation of European Reference in French –Update the care-structure in the school

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 8 Encouraging teachers to become research-active Findings teachers Professional growth Individual: critical stance, improvement daily practice Research practice Findings school managers Impressed by presentations teachers Immediate progress in daily schoolmatters (also colleagues) Critical about too high optimism some teachers

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 9 Encouraging teachers to become research-active Findings experts Positive, but Too little training in learning to conduct research Too little time and support available Combination individual professionalisation and school development is hard Awareness of teachers of available research possibilities limited

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 10 Encouraging teachers to become research-active Conclusion Reframing teachers views on research Conditions necessary on individual and school level Recommendations More pilots Research training for teachers in schools Detailed and clear scenario required

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 11 Encouraging teachers to become research-active Ideal condition communities of teachers, student teachers, teacher educators & researchers that work collaboratively

ATEE august 2010 Pagina 12 Encouraging teachers to become research-active Questions & Discussion