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→2. Collaborative resource creation by a community of educators as a method of Teacher Professional Development
Such a community of educators is in line with the NCF and NCFTE principles of collaborative and constructivist approaches in education. Here, teachers will be trained to create digital resources. This will allow the teachers to build their Technological Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge1 (TPACK) that attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge. A teacher should have an idea of the various educational technologies available, the multiple representations, ideas and approaches possible for teaching, besides possessing content knowledge.<br><br>
Such a community of educators is in line with the NCF and NCFTE principles of collaborative and constructivist approaches in education. Here, teachers will be trained to create digital resources. This will allow the teachers to build their Technological Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge1 (TPACK) that attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge. A teacher should have an idea of the various educational technologies available, the multiple representations, ideas and approaches possible for teaching, besides possessing content knowledge.<br><br>
Such a community also provides a sustainable model since it is within the education system and different teachers will act as creators, reviewers, curators, editors and publishers, moving across roles across time. Such resources created and published would belong to the public education system.<br>
Such a community also provides a sustainable model since it is within the education system and different teachers will act as creators, reviewers, curators, editors and publishers, moving across roles across time. Such resources created and published would belong to the public education system.<br>
== Scope of the Project ==
The structure of the resource wiki has been developed taking into account the overall objectives of any subject teaching-learning, the contextual validity and relevance of a syllabus topic, the nature of expected learning outcomes from introducing a topic in class, at any grade and consequently the appropriate structuring across grade levels.
Such a scope means that educational practitioners will need to be closely and continually involved in the development of the resources. The process of development of these resources includes a framework that
1. maps the spiral of understanding and the levels of complexity that an idea will move through from classes 6 – 10 following the age-wise curriculum structure contained in the NCF
2. addresses the conceptual learning to be built, the facts to be learnt and the skills to be introduced
3. provides for the teachers background in terms of pedagogic approaches that will describe multiple approaches of teaching-learning
4. provides for teachers a map of how the knowledge in a particular discipline was built - for example, the history of music or the history of art
5. includes an index of classroom activities, additional resources that need to be used for completing a given lesson and that can be contextualized by the teacher effectively
6. provides teacher material for a comprehensive discussion of the topic being introduced, which can also be introduced as additional material for the students as decided by the teacher
7. contains evaluation related activities
8. provides for reflective self-evaluation by the teachers