Best Practice: Out of the classroom, on-the-job or spare-time learning

Job-based and spare-time learning are low-cost solutions to develop competencies which, if appropriately applied, can be very effective. It includes:

• Virtual classroom and webinars
• E- and mobile learning
• Blended learning which combines periods of self-study, working and occasional meetings with facilitators/lecturers and co-learners
• Systematic on-the-job instruction or supervision, which might involve demonstrations. This can be facilitated by the school leader or a highly accomplished/distinguished teacher
• Mentoring
• Coaching, which is more personalised and systematic than mentoring
• Provision of instructions on posters, easily accessible manuals, etc
• Team learning on-the-job
• Communities of practice (Can be organised as a Facebook or LinkedIn group with similar professional and subject interests who maintain contact, discuss online, exchange literature, etc.)
• Self-directed learning.