Teacher Interviews
Initial teacher interviews were carried out individually by the researcher linked with the teacher pair concerned.
Teachers were asked:
• what they understood to be ‘interactive teaching’
• what their role is as teacher in an interactive lesson
• to what extent their teaching was ‘interactive’
• how was interactive teaching affected by the use of ICT
• how important they think it was to teach interactively.
At the end of the project, similar interviews will ask teachers:
• whether their ideas about ‘interactive teaching’ had changed during the project
• whether their teaching had changed during the project and, if so, what had been the contribution of various sources of support
• researchers, colleagues in project, colleagues in school, other colleagues, LEA staff, books/magazines, internet, etc?
• whether they thought that interactive teaching is affected by the use of ICT
• whether using ICT during the project changed the way that they teach, prepare, or assess pupils’ learning?
• how ICT affected pupils’ learning
• whether ICT affected the participation of SEN and EAL pupils in lessons
• what they thought were the strengths and weaknesses of the ICT in their classroom to help them teach and children learn
• (Foundation Phase teachers only) how Foundation Phase developments (such as learning through play) had affected their teaching
• how the involvement in this research had affected their thinking
The data was transcribed and coded using a grounded approach. This is being analysed for commonalities and differences according to ICT/non-ICT, key stage, and subject
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