Pioneer Level Questions
Finding Evaluating and Organising
Creating and Sharing
Assessment and Feedback
Communication, Collaboration and Participation
e-Safety and Online Identity
Technology-supported Professional Development
- Do you use a number of search strategies for finding information and resources, including OERs online?
- Can you curate digital information and resources in a number of ways?
- Do you use a range of tools to select, organise, annotate and present collections of information?
- Do you advise and support colleagues on a range of effective approaches to find, evaluate and organise digital information, resources and activities, including OERs?
Creating and Sharing
- Do you create OERs and share these with school colleagues and externally online?
- Do you understand and take accessibility issues into account when creating and sharing digital resources?
- Do you promote the resources you create and know how to make materials discoverable?
- Do you support learners in creating their own multimedia content and presentations, incorporating openly licensed content where available?
- Do you support colleagues in creating original and re-purposed multimedia resources?
Assessment and Feedback
- Can you demonstrate the effectiveness of your teaching methods and approaches through the use and analysis of a range of data?
- Do you support learners in managing, planning and submitting their work electronically, using a range of formats as appropriate, to create online collections of their work and monitor their own progress?
- Do you facilitate peer assessment and feedback?
- Do you support colleagues in developing their skills and understanding in relating to assessment tools and techniques?
Communication, Collaboration and Participation
- Are you an active participant in online communities?
- Can you manage online learning spaces effectively?
- Can you manage one-off online activities for groups as well as on-going collaborative projects?
- Can you recognise when elements of the curriculum are best approached by learners working collaboratively through technology?
- Are you familiar with participatory approaches that enable learners to co-produce and co-design activities and projects?
- Do you provide advice and support to colleagues on how to integrate collaborative and participatory practices into their teaching and support of learners?
- Do you routinely evaluate the effectiveness of collaborative approaches?
e-Safety and Online Identity
- Do you understand the importance of modelling the positive use of technologies for young people?
- Do you do this in a range of ways?
- Do you understand how to identify, manage and address the risks associated with learning and teaching in a range of online environments?
- Do you keep up to date with the wide range of online, mobile and gaming technologies young people use and the key ways in which they use them?
- Do you ensure the whole school community are actively involved in understanding and addressing e-safety issues?
Technology-supported Professional Development
- Can you use social media or networking sites for professional purposes, including engaging in current discussions, sharing resources and fostering a network of professional contacts?
- Do you use a wide range of tools, platforms and approaches to share practice and resources created and to discuss and develop ideas with others?
- Can you moderate and support others in using a range of sites, platforms and tools for professional development?
- Can you help colleagues when approached about issues relating to CPD online and advise them of the best approaches to take depending on their needs and interests?
(Questions adapted from Fraser et al., 2013, pp.19-24)