In their daily work, teachers are continuously dealing with differences among learners: interests, readiness levels, needs, learning styles.
New technologies offer many educational benefits when implementing differentiated instruction strategies: one of which is the ability to easily adapt curriculum to accommodate different learning styles and abilities. Teachers can use tablets in the classroom to enhance their current differentiated instruction practices and to provide educational content to students in different formats.
The TABLIO project is aimed at promoting the use of new technologies, such as tablets and mobile devices, to support teachers in implementing differentiation strategies, thus addressing these differences.
We asked to teachers and schools to share with us their existing practices on this topic. Representatives of each partner organisation – from Belgium, Turkey, Slovenia, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy – met in Maribor (Slovenia) on the 3rd and 4th July to evaluate the practices collected using markers developed by the consortium. This will allow us to provide teachers with feedback on strengths and weaknesses and give a TABLIO label – in progress, good practice, excellence – to their practices.
Teacher Design Teams
Our Dutch partner HAN University of Applied Sciences showed the Teacher Design Team (TDT) methodology, which will be implemented in each partner country during the next school year. Indeed, each country will set up at least two TDTs made up by:
- two in service teachers;
- a pre-service teacher;
- a coordinating role in the school;
- the local coordinator of the partner organization.
In TDTs, teachers collaborate on designing educational materials. The design team is a creative space in which each participant has his/her role in identifying an educational challenge and developing a new pedagogical arrangement. In this case, the challenges will be focused on the need of addressing differences among learners in order to include each one of them in the educational path through the use of tablets and mobile devices.
In next months, we will publish the TABLIO Design Toolkit with design-principles, design-template and evaluation criteria for differentiation strategies in classroom.
Stay updated on our next activities!
TABLIO is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnerships for school education.
The project involves 7 organizations from 6 different countries:
- PXL University College – coordinator (Belgium),
- Istanbul University (Turkey),
- INUK – Institute for Advanced Communication Management (Slovenia),
- HAN University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands),
- North West Regional College (United Kingdom),
- TELL Consult (Netherlands),
- CESIE (Italy).
If you are a teacher and you are interested in taking part in the Teacher Design Teams and knowing more about the project, contact school@cesie.org
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