The document discusses getting faculty out of their comfort zones and promoting growth and changes needed for 21st century skills. It proposes a progressive inquiry model for faculty development using authentic learning principles, team projects, access to experts, reflection, and assessment. Initial feedback suggests the approach shows potential but facilitating communication and stepping out of comfort zones is important and demanding for the transition to collaborative learning.

1. Out of the Comfort Zone -
Promoting Growth and Change
in Faculty for 21st Century
Knowledge Society
Hanna Teräs
Mark Curcher
Marianna Leikomaa
Image: Jim Moran
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2. “How teachers are supposed to
educate their students in what they
themselves lack education in?”
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4. Johnson, L., Smith, R., Willis, H., Levine, A., and Haywood, K.,
(2011). The 2011 Horizon Report.
Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
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5. There is no automatic update!
Young teachers
copy teacher
roles from
their
teachers.
Image: Matthew Stinson
Students get socialized
in traditional student roles.
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6. Social technologies
Ongoing dialogic
as learning
assessment
environments
Our approach
Principles of to teaching
authentic learning faculty development Team learning
(Herrington et al)
Progressive inquiry Networking
model
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7. Image: Bodum
Authentic context
and tasks
• Teacher’s own classroom as a
part of the learning environment
• Alongside work -> context
• Avoiding oversimplification
• Team project (progressive
inquiry) throughout semester
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8. Access to experts &
multiple perspectives
• Continuing access to to other
learners and stories about
professional practice
• Local facilitators trained prior to
beginning of the program
• Social networking
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9. Collaborative
knowledge construction
• Encourage and require different
types of collaboration in diverse
teams
• Also individual tasks include a
collaborative element
• Assessment also on group
level.
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10. Reflection and
articulation
• Social media offers powerful
tools for reflection: compare
experiences, assess one’s own
skills, relate new skills to
previous experience and learn
from others
• Group activities require
articulation of growing
understanding and negotiating
it with others.
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11. Scaffolding and
assessment
• Ongoing facilitation
• Ongoing, integrated
assessment
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12. Expectations
Technology
Community
Image: mrpbps
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13. Learning from others
Reflection
Applying
Image: NailaJ
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14. Transition to 21st century collaborative learning
is demanding and requires support to faculty.
Initial feedback is promising and shows that the
approach carries potential.
The process does not happen without
stepping out of the comfort zone.
Facilitation & communication!
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15. Thank you!
hanna.teras@tamk.fi
mcurcher@hct.ae.ae
marianna.leikomaa@tamk.fi
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