As an educational vision and philosophy of the institution, offers various types of customized consultation meetings regarding pedagogical-technological aspects that are modified according to the TEs' content, style and needs including personal meetings varying in length, group meetings, synchronous, and asynchronous workshops.
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Customized Consultation to Enhance Teacher Educators' Techno-Pedagogical Skills
Tami Seifert (Kibutzim College of Education, Israel)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8476-6.ch006
Abstract
Educational technology is an indispensable element of higher education teaching. Teacher educators need knowledge and skills to design and successfully implement technology-enhanced learning. However, research reveals that professional development programs have only a low impact on teacher educators' teaching practice. An evaluation framework evaluating professional development training programs was implemented. The model evaluates training impact over four levels: participant's satisfaction, learning, and application of what was learned and connection of the training results to organizational outcomes. Consultation meetings varying in length, offered by the ICT unit, assisted teacher educators to integrate technology according to their content, style, and needs. They could also participate in courses designed and implemented by colleagues, group meetings, workshops, and online synchronous and asynchronous consultation meetings. The college's educational vision and integration of the PD program into the teacher educator's teaching practice were important factors for success.