Presentation to 2nd Global Teacher Education Knowledge Mobilisation Summit - London May, 2017

1. Reaching teachers and teacher educators around
the world - an example from developing engagement
in the MESH Spelling Guide
Colin Harrison, University of Nottingham
2nd Global Teacher Education
Knowledge Mobilisation Summit:
strategies and tools supporting UNESCO's
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4

2. Who uses it?
… and How?
The MESH Guide to
Teaching Spelling
What is it?

3. What is MESH??

4. What is MESH?
•Mapping Educational Specialist knowHow
•A global partnership
•A quality assured 'wikipedia' of professional
knowledge for teaching
•http://www.meshguides.org/
•All resources are free

5. What is the MESH Guide to Teaching Spelling?
•“A quality assured 'wikipedia' of professional knowledge
for teaching spelling”
•Thanks to Marilyn Leask and Sarah Younie
•And to Richard Procter for programming
•http://www.richprocter.co.uk/cgi-bin/pathways/spelling.pl

6. Questions for teachers:
1.Do you feel that you know as much as you
need to about how children learn to spell?
2. What theories or knowledge might
inform your own understanding of how
children learn to spell?
3. Do you feel you need resources and lesson
plans for teaching spelling?

10. • Site visit data - Google Analytics:
• How many?
• (Jan 2014-April 2017)

11. Who is using the MESH Guide to Teaching Spelling?
•Questionnaire - Google Docs
•Site visit data - Google Analytics

12. • Site visit data - Google Analytics: From where?

13. • Site visit data - Google Analytics: Sessions by Country

14. • Google Analytics: How is the site being used?

15. • Google Analytics: How is the site being used?
• Which pages are popular? Theory or Resources?

16. • Google Analytics: How is the site being used?
• Which pages are popular? Theory or Resources?

17. Top = landing page

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20. • Google Analytics: How is the site being used?
• Which pages are popular? Theory or Resources?
5000+ lesson ideas
and videos

21. What is the take-home message from this data?
7,063 users from 125 nations want
curriculum guidelines and
well-informed theory
more than they want lesson plans,
worksheets and videos

22. Reaching teachers and teacher educators around
the world - an example from developing engagement
in the MESH Spelling Guide
Colin Harrison, University of Nottingham
2nd Global Teacher Education
Knowledge Mobilisation Summit:
strategies and tools supporting
UNESCO's
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)
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