Abstract of my paper for Penang conference

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Berikut adalah abstract dari paper yg saya presentasikan, a small part of my big study.

Encouraging a novice teacher to use the Internet in primary school mathematics
Sitti Maesuri Patahuddin,
The University of Queensland
sitti@maesuri.com

This paper presents my journey working with a novice teacher to encourage him to use the Internet as a professional development tool and as a resource for teaching primary school mathematics. Drawing on classroom observations and interview data, I outline the professional development strategies I used and the novice teacher’s responses. Strategies explored in working with this novice teacher included: (1) e-mail communication; (2) organising educational websites into Blogs; (3) offering to create a classroom website or Blog as a collaborative project; (4) planning and designing mathematical investigation for a school term; (5) showing mathematical websites and working with students in the classroom using the Internet; (6) linking selected websites to the teacher’s mathematics teaching program; and (7) introducing the teacher to communication sites as a tool for teacher professional development. Although it seems that this teacher has developed only slowly in his use of the Internet, if at all, the findings are significant in underscoring the non-linear, interactive and contingent nature of authentic professional development.

Keywords: Ethnography, professional development, novice teacher, Internet, and Blog.