Responsive questions and ideas

Questionnaire findings and implications for the research design - teacher support and taking a step back in terms of activities involved!!!! - potential rethink

Being accessible mentioned in strategies, but not guidance as to what that means or what that looks like - no mention in strategies of UDL type signposting or frameworks to use. Finding in questionnaire echoes this.

Summary of the teaching ‘of’ accessibility and teaching accessibly, both not being visible in educational guidance and an area that would need significant support and professional development - hence changing from lesson pilots to exploring the type of support teachers and schools would need.

Questionnaire findings justify this approach- as well as initial conversation with a KS2 Y6 PSHE teacher about my research and its design (Robin Hood)

Could DAA be added to the school curriculum and what support would be needed for teachers?

Literature review:

Background and context

Introduce the questions for the literature review:

What is the current teaching of digital accessibility within the educational curriculum - the need for teaching it in schools and when it could be integrated with the school curriculum- to be able to teach it we need teacher preparedness 

Add - overview of visibility of subject matter/info about digital accessibility in the educational context - new gov inclusion directives. Visibility of what it means to be inclusive and what that looks like in practice - UDL not visible in guidance/strategies - WCC (Amy/Chanika - do they promote it?)

The current knowledge of teachers and availability of pedagogical guidance- lack of guidance e.g. we need a curriculum framework - heavily supportive approach- while infrastructure and prior knowledge appears to be a challenge?????

What are the components of digital accessibility awareness education to guide this study - what do teachers know - what would they need?

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Interview each of the evergreen leads (ask Catherine/original contact/inclusion head from AT board), milly, pub lady, Pete Hines - Write interview questions - also evergreen PSHE teachers 

From these organise the 3 focus groups 

Could digital accessibility awareness education be integrated into existing National Curriculum lessons in school and what type of support would teachers need to implement it? 

• What prior knowledge and experience do teachers have to be able to teach digital accessibility awareness?
• How can digital accessibility awareness concepts be integrated into existing lessons on the NC?
• What professional development and school-based support is needed to implement the teaching of DA in practice?

Survey - prior knowledge (UKS2 and KS3) - KS3 - 7&8 only.

Spend approximately 1 hour reading through the e-learning to get a flavour of the ENABLED for Digital Accessibility framework.

Focus groups (5) - planning for DAA- (UKS2 or KS3 based on comparison of survey responses)

• Task 1 - (30-45 minutes) Matrix- planning for learners - 5 ideas (30 mins) - teaching activities and learners response
• Task 2 - (30-45 minutes) Matrix - teacher /school level support - with 5 ideas (one column for each letter of ENABLED) (30 minutes)

Task 2 with questions specific to resources and support needed for (PCKg) - analysis via each category of ENABLED.

For each ENABLED category:

Interview:

Teacher of computing/pshe

Length of time teaching in years

School setting (mainstream/private/specialist)

What did you learn from the introductory course that you never knew before?

Have you ever taught these topics to pupils before?

Then worksheet:

• What type of training, support and resources would you specifically need as a teacher to teach this concept in the classroom with learners
• What would support or logistical resourcing would be needed at the school level to be able to implement teaching this concept?

Participating teachers - £10 vouchers each?

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Add to focus group- what do you anticipate would go well for learning (e.g. learners response) - what might be more challenging.

Question 4 Karen/Sarah - who do I need to ask to be able to send invites to head teachers? - This is not part of my WCC job

INVITE - ADVERT!!

Are you a primary school teacher that is willing to be interviewed as part of a PHD research project?

Do you:

• Teach at KS2 (year 5 or 6)
• Teach the subjects of computing or PSHE

I have put together a hypothetical curriculum framework that could be potentially covered within these two subject areas. I’m looking for your thoughts about the types of support needed to be able to implement it. 

What to expect:

1. Prior to the interview you will be given an introductory elearning course to help familiarise yourself with the hypothetical curriculum concepts (approx time 1 hour)
2. You will be invited to a 45 minute online interview to discuss the support needed to teach the hypothetical concepts 

The hypothetical curriculum topic covers concepts related to being considerate of others needs and creating a more inclusive digital society. 

You do not need any prior knowledge of these concepts to participate as the interview focuses on the support needed to teach the topic for the first time.

Interviews will be recorded and names will be removed from all transcripts to ensure that contributions remain anonymous. 

Further opportunities to contribute 

For those interested in contributing to the research project even further, future focus group opportunities will be outlined during the interview process.

Find out more about the interviews and sign up

Info….. and sign up form:

 www.learntoenable.co.uk/PHDinterview

Contact info

All interview data aims to be collected between June 2026 and June 2027.

About the researcher

Info

##ADD to sign up form - I teach at KS2/3 PSHE/Computing - ?DO separate forms for KS2 and KS3 recruitment 

Interview first can build up a rapport to recruit to or form wider focus groups 

Would you expect the pupils to have any prior knowledge