“But All We Really Wanted was a Course!”: Teacher Professional Development for Innovative Teaching with ICT

This article describes a professional development project for teachers that aimed at developing innovative teaching with ICT in a 21st-century understanding of the term innovative. The article describes the result of the intervention and the practice-based method used for this professional development project. Data from teacher planning, observations, interviews and document study are used to describe the poor outcome
for the 8th-grade foreign-language teachers involved. We suggest five reasons for why the teachers did not manage to live up to the criteria for innovative teaching but persisted in conducting traditional teaching, where ICT was never integrated in their subject teaching in relevant and appropriate, valueadding ways: First, the students’ level of the foreign language; second, an unstable interaction with consultants; third,
the teachers’ struggle to find their roles; fourth, competing rationales; and fifth, a dated understanding of their subjects.