Professional development resources

DEEP teacher participants are provided with a range of professional development resources:

  • a short Study Guide;
  • Professional Development Activities;
  • Activity Cards providing a route-way through the Activities, mapped against expected Learning Outcomes;
  • teacher and pupil diaries;
  • a portfolio folder;
  • additional e-resources.

Courses such as 'Endangered animals' and 'Ourselves and Our Community' provide unifying project themes. E-resources incorporate classroom-focused case studies of the way ICT can be used to develop pupils' literacy, numeracy, science and communication skills. These resources introduce teachers to a range of classroom activities, graduating in difficulty from simple literacy word processing and web search tasks, to e-mailing research findings to pupils in other schools.

Introductory face to face workshops for project teachers requires teacher pairs to develop and consolidate their relationships with each other, they encourage joint work on a variety of curriculum focused ICT activities. Teachers are also encouraged to operate in regionally based cluster groups throughout their training. The DEEP materials, together with an introduction to implementing the DEEP programme, are provided as an open access resource on this site. To view these resources go to the DEEP Participants' site

ICT resources

In the first phase of the DEEP programme each teacher pair in Cairo used existing provision of desktop computers within their schools' small multi media labs. South African project teachers had no computer access prior to the project. Microsoft SA's division of social responsibility sponsored a single MECER laptop, manufactured in South Africa, for each school. In addition every project teacher (in Egypt as well as South Africa) used a powerful [206 MHz processor], state of the art handheld PC/ digital camera, funded by the research project in partnership with Hewlett Packard. This device facilitated access to DEEP's multi-media professional development resources, including audio and video clips of exemplary classroom practice. Schools were provided with a modem, combined printer, scanner and photocopier, together with a small budget for connectivity, ink and paper. This ICT equipment was introduced gradually in order to avoid 'technology overload', as well as to encourage collaborative models of learning.

During the research we used the following eBook resources:

Introducing ICT (205KB)
Hare and Tortoise I (154KB)
Animals Introduction (235KB)
Hare and Tortoise II (95KB)
Animals (54KB)
Telling my story (159KB)
Animal Adaptation (90KB)
Endangered Animals (91KB)

You can save and view these files on your desktop machine with Microsoft Reader.

Alternatively, you will need to install the Microsoft Reader application on your PDA
Pocket PC - the application may already be available, or download
Palm - unfortunately there is no version available for Palm