Narrative Progression Pathways
Introducing Progression Pathways
The EdTech micromodules on the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform have been created to support learning around the seven major areas and the associated competences set out in the Digital Teaching Professional Framework (DTPF). Each module links explicitly to one or more areas of the framework.
In addition, the modules are presented on the platform in pedagogical badging groups to facilitate their use to support personal and team development in recognisable areas of professional practice such as assessment, digital literacy and accessibility.
Pathways offer a third way to use the modules. They provide an alternative grouping of modules around a pedagogical topic, issue or question of interest that follows a narrative trail across and between the different badging groups.
Consider the following question: "How can I make better use of classroom activity?". The pathway that helps answer this takes us to 10 modules from three different badging groups:
- Assessment
- The Digital Teacher
- Engaging Learners
We shall be adding new pathways when the opportunity arises. You might consider creating your own pathways as you work through the modules and share them with colleagues through the communities of practice.
Pathway: Collaborative working
Effective collaboration calls for creative, technical and pedagogic skills to be harnessed to a positive attitude to sharing and joint working, which mirrors the world of employment which awaits our learners. Collaborative working occurs at a number of levels.
This pathway looks at:
- Collaboration between teachers
- Collaboration between teachers and learners
- Developing learners’ collaboration skills
Pathway: Designing learning beyond the classroom
How can technology and mobile devices be used to open learning to all beyond the classroom time?
This pathway develops three pedagogical themes that address how teachers can design learning and activity to support continuous access to learning activity:
- Using mobile devices
- Portability
- Asynchronous learning
Pathway: Improving learning effectiveness
How can technology and its application be designed to improve learning?
This pathway looks at:
- Capacity to learn
- Providing utility
- Designing learning through technology
- The teacher becomes a guide
- Demonstrating learning
Pathway: Addressing the knowledge agenda
Technology has an important contribution to make in the practical application of new approaches and the Enhance modules contain a number which explore the opportunities and practicalities of changing practice.
This pathway looks at:
- Core ideas and frameworks
- Effective learning in the classroom
Pathway: Making classroom activity more effective for learners
Face-to-face teaching and learning contact time is both restricted in time and carefully scheduled.
This pathway looks at:
- What is different about face-to-face teaching and learning
- How to make the most of the limited time available to deliver stimulating, engaging and effective learning experiences
- Some tools and techniques to support you
Pathway: Towards inclusivity
What can technology offer to help remove barriers to learning? This pathway looks at the ways learning design using technology can remove or mitigate the effects of barriers to study and learning.
This pathway looks at:
- Differing approaches to learning
- Removing barriers for learners
- Learning from each other
Pathway: EdTech and Essential Digital Skills Training to support remote working
This pathway guide identifies and provides links to EdTech and Essential Digital Skills training modules on the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform which can contribute to developing the knowledge, skills and understanding required for teaching and learning online.
