Developing New Sampling Strategies: Using "Adoptive" Sampling in the Teach a Teacher Project

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Abstract

\This paper documents the implementation of an innovative sampling strategy within an action research project which explores re-conceptualising approaches towards teachers’ Continuing Professional Development [CPD]. The ‘Teach a Teacher’ project took place in an English secondary school and facilitated a situation where the pupils became the educators and teachers the learners. Working in pairs, pupils negotiated and delivered a programme of Information and Communication Technology [ICT] CPD for their chosen teacher. The most compelling outcome was not just the extent to which the process of role reversal was openly embraced, but how the use of an ‘adoptive’ sampling strategy – where participants selected, or ‘adopted’ each other – led to a mutual empathy developing between pupils and teachers.

Author

• David Morris, University of East London