Collective Improvisation in a Teacher Education Community

by Darling, Linda Farr; Erickson, Gaalen L.; Clarke, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781402056673
• ISBN10: 1402056672
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-03
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

This is the story of a teacher education initiative. The project A Community of Inquiry in Teacher Education (CITE) has aimed to transform learning to teach from an experience based on the acquisition of skills to one centred on the cultivation of certain dispositions. CITE creates a program structure for integrating elements of university-based courses and school practicum experiences, with community based activities, and it utilizes a variety of instructional strategies and technology-based tools to create a series of 'knowledge building communities'. As small-scale reform initiatives go (36 aspiring teachers each year) CITE has had a long and vibrant life, despite some inevitable struggles. It is the longevity of CITE that prompted the authors to turn their inquiries about teaching and learning to the challenges of sustaining their own project. The result is a collection that chronicles some of their own experiments, deliberations, and the lessons learned through their many experiences. It is more accurate to say that Collective Improvisation is many stories, not just one. That is because this book represents the perspectives of university-based instructors, school partners, former students, and graduate student researchers, each of whom contribute a different and valued voice to the whole composition.

Table of Contents

Stepping lightly, thinking boldly, learning constantly : community and inquiry in teacher education

Looking back on the construction of a community of inquiry

Learning in synchrony

Seeing the complexity of the practicum

Enjoying their own margins : narratives of innovation and inquiry in teacher education

In open spaces

Practicing what we preach : helping student teachers turn theory into practice

Social studies education in school

Learning by design : a multimedia mathematics project in a teacher education program

Teacher educators using technology : functional, participative, and generative competencies

Virtually aesthetic : the CITE cohort's experience of online learning

Learning to teach technology : the journey of two beginning teachers

Mid-course feedback on faculty teaching : a pilot project

Portfolio as practice : the narratives of emerging teachers

Complexity science and the CITE cohort

"The filter of laws" : teacher education and the British Columbia College of teachers' teaching standards

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