When used for in-service teacher education, exemplar STL materials can be incorporated into day seminars or short residential courses in the same way as they are used in a full-time teacher education programme. However, time constraints will require that the modules should be used very selectively for this purpose. The advantage of this opportunity, however, is scope for participants to try out and evaluate the materials in their own school, whereas full-time students on teaching practice do not normally have freedom for such initiatives.

Distance-learning programmes provide even better opportunities for micro-studies of the use of STL materials. The ideal situation would be to incorporate one selected module into the progrmme, provide participants with detailed guidance for its evaluation, and ask them to write account of the project in their school.