The packing game

The teacher explains the particular value of ICT to her own teaching area. It allows students to hear and see a language in action. She also believes that it is particularly valuable when you are teaching a language like Japanese with its own scripts. After using hardware and software in her year 7 classroom to teach vocabulary, she adapts the lesson for use in a professional learning workshop for teachers in other learning areas. She believes that they can adapt the learning and the technologies to their own contexts.

Teaching Italian and Japanese part time at Davidson High School, the teacher also works as a consultant in surrounding schools delivering professional learning. Davidson High School, like many others, utilises its own staff to offer professional learning to its teachers. Workshops are planned and negotiated with the school’s leadership team. Because of the teacher’s belief in the value of ICT for teaching and learning, she offers a workshop to her peers, which is based on a successful lesson that she has previously taught to her students.