A multi-tiered framework of technological pedagogical change in schools: Cases of developing ICT champion communities

This paper presents a multi-tiered framework for introducing and expanding a change in technology and pedagogy in schools. The framework entails working with different bodies of stakeholders in the grade-level, and also training or developing squads of ICT champions, experts-cum-enthusiasts. The framework can be scaled to include an increasing number of school stakeholder bodies, and to widen the innovation´s scope within a school. It addresses the need to reimagine student learning and teacher professional development as collaborative learning to build sustainable, accessible and scalable communities for technological pedagogical change. The framework is data-driven, supported by a three cases of ICT champions introducing a grade-level iMovie curriculum innovation in an international primary school in Singapore. In one case, a group of student ICT champions interacts with students and teachers. In another, a group of teacher ICT champions interacts with other teachers in the school. The third case describes how an ICT champion regularly trains all teachers at grade-level in Team Time meetings. Based on case data, school conditions for successful application of the framework, including the external and internal conditions for individual and corporate ICT champions are discussed.