Pedagogic shift - in international virtual schools

The PAT Model

The Pre Adoption of Technology (PAT) Model (Jones, 2015)

This research explored the factors affecting pedagogic shift in a Virtual Iinternational School. The findings from this research point to the importance of understanding change as a learning journey, which necessarily takes time and is influenced by a variety of factors in which effective leadership plays a central role. Additionally, within the context of a Virutal International School, the research shows how through processes such as understanding each others’ different perspectives and the way technologies are harnessed, change is facilitated and a sense of community is built, all play an important role in enabling pedagogic shift to take place. These concepts have been developed into a model containing five spheres, which need to be acknowledged and explored if teachers are to successfully engage with each other to change their current isolated teaching practices to teaching in collaboration with others through the integration of web-based communication technologies into those new teaching practices, i.e. Pedagogic Shift. The model has been called The Pre Adoption of Technology (PAT) Model as shown in the figure above.