ABSTRACT

Providing professional development (PD) for Papua New Guinea (PNG) teachers is highly challenging due to the remoteness of schools, limited budgets, travel costs, and safety. The essential follow-up guidance and support after PD workshops is rarely possible, especially for the majority of teachers, who work in rural schools. In addition, the effectiveness of PD in facilitating collaboration among members of the school community can be affected by traditional cultural approaches to knowledge building and sharing. This article reports on an innovative form of PD with PNG elementary school teachers that used classroom teaching videos provided on SD cards for mobile phones. Videos of authentic teaching by other PNG teachers in similar contexts were provided to 260 teachers as follow-up to literacy practice workshop training sessions. The SD cards were used by 80% of the teachers in their own teaching, and more than half also shared the SD cards with other teachers. These findings show the value of SD cards in PD training in low-income countries, both for the development of individual teacher self-efficacy leading to confidence and better outcomes for the children in their classes, and for the development of teacher collaboration with colleagues

摘要

由于学校地处偏远、预算有限、差旅费和安全性，为巴布亚新几内亚 (PNG) 教师提供专业发展 (PD) 极具挑战性。在 PD 讲习班之后，基本的后续指导和支持几乎是不可能的，尤其是对于在农村学校工作的大多数教师而言。此外，PD 在促进学校社区成员之间合作的有效性可能会受到传统文化知识构建和共享方法的影响。本文报告了 PNG 小学教师使用手机 SD 卡上提供的课堂教学视频的一种创新形式的 PD。向 260 名教师提供了其他 PNG 教师在类似情况下的真实教学视频，作为扫盲实践研讨会培训课程的后续活动。80%的教师在自己的教学中使用了SD卡，超过一半的教师还与其他教师共享了SD卡。这些发现显示了 SD 卡在低收入国家的 PD 培训中的价值，既可以培养教师的自我效能感，从而为班上的孩子们带来信心和更好的成绩，也可以促进教师与同事的合作