Description du travail d’appropriation de pratiques pédagogiques efficaces au sein d’un cercle pédagogique par des enseignants du secondaire oeuvrant en contexte technologique

This research is part of the work carried out in a Montreal high school since 2005 following the implementation of the competency-based Quebec Education Program (QEP). Like the programs published in the 1970s and revised in the 1980s, the implementation of this program has faced many challenges, particularly in terms of evaluation. The importance of supporting teachers in the development of educational practices likely to support this goal has therefore resurfaced. However, no management or research system has been established in Quebec to obtain a precise portrait of the support strategies mainly used and their real effect on the development of classroom practices. However, some studies, while seeking to identify favorable conditions for professional development, inform us about the complexity of this process and the need to better understand it (TNTP 2015; Darling-Hammond et al., 2009).  In addition, metanalysis aimed at identifying the most effective teaching practices have also aroused a great deal of interest in schools with the intent to better identifying professional development intentions (Hattie, 2009; Marzano, 1998). Our qualitative descriptive research attempts to better understand the appropriation efforts of effective teaching practices carried out by five teachers in three high school disciplines who work in a technological context within a learning community of the video club type (Sherin and van Es, 2009). More specifically, we wanted to better understand the interpretive posture (Sherin and van Es, 2009), the depth of reasoning (Brodie, 2013), the interdependence between the dimensions of professional development (Shulman and Shulman, 2004) and the integration of technological pedagogical content knowledge (Mishra and Koehler, 2006), which are linked to this appropriation efforts. A descriptive analysis in two phases was carried out from a verbatim resulting from the video recordings of the first eight sessions of the second year of a video club which brought together 4 to 5 participants for two years, for a total of 32 meetings. A first phase focused on describing the appropriation efforts carried out by each of the participants throughout the meetings while the second phase focused on describing the nature of the appropriation efforts specific to each step of the video club, namely the study of an educational concept, the transposition of concepts into classroom practices, the classroom experimentation and the video-based practice analysis. The data analysis made it possible to observe, at the first two steps of the video club, the role of a cognitive dialogue oriented towards a shared understanding of theoretical concepts. This dialogue supported the experimentation and the development of classroom practices. The analysis also made it possible to observe the impact of the practice analysis carried out by the participants on the process of gaining technological pedagogical content knowledge. Indeed, the multiple perspectives that allow the sharing of video documentation of an activity in class and the analysis of this documentation by the participants nourish their reflection on the concept studied while supporting a recontextualization in their discipline and their respective level. This research was conducted accordingly to the constraints and resources generally present in a secondary school in Quebec. As such, it can inspire other research of this type while offering strategies for the implementation of professional development systems supporting the appropriation efforts of teaching practices.

Keyphrases: Professional development, Video club, Teaching practices, Practice analysis, secondary education