Teacher Learning within a Multinational Project in an Upper Secondary School
Table 1
Project-related activities during the end of 2013–June 2016.
2013
Autumn
A presentation in the teachers’ meeting. It consisted of describing the project as well as the trialogical learning approach.
December
A planning meeting was organized in the school with a few teachers.
2014
January
KNORK kick-off meeting, including a workshop for planning the first courses. Three teachers and the principal participated.
November
Teacher meeting in the school for inspiring new teachers to participate.
2015
January
KNORK Consortium meeting and a theory-driven pedagogical workshop. Two teachers participated (one coordinator, one of the teachers who was in the kick-off meeting)
Theory-driven workshop for all teachers in the school (42 participants): the researchers provided the teachers with a design template for improving their courses based on the TLA approach. Teachers were encouraged to collaborate with each other in redesigning courses or creating new courses.
A follow-up of the previous workshop; guiding teachers to continue their plans. Several teachers participated, mainly those who had implemented some course designs that had been planned before.
2015
August– November
Guiding teachers to write descriptions of courses or tools on the project pages based on a common template (energy in an ecosystem, comparing the idea of human rights in various historical declarations, and Blogger). Researchers participated as coauthors and editors in the writing process.
2015
November
Organizing a reflection workshop. The courses were reflected based on students’ self-evaluation results collected with the Collaborative Knowledge Practices (CKP-School) questionnaire [32] presented by the researchers. Discussions of future work. Several teachers participated.
2015
April
A major national event where the researchers invited the school to participate and present the project outcomes; one teacher participated.
2015
April-May
Guiding teachers to write descriptions of courses on the project pages (voluntary work, game culture, and media entrepreneurship).