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Conversations About Education: Professional Development Through A Multi-Epistemic Lens, Roland Karen, Julia Colella, Blessing Igbokwe
Conversations About Education: Professional Development Through A Multi-Epistemic Lens, Roland Karen, Julia Colella, Blessing Igbokwe
Education Publications
This study involves the program evaluation of the Conversations About Education pilot, developed as a community collaboration to offer professional development involving participants from a Faculty of Education, local school partners, and community organizations offering programming to Newcomers to Canada. The program sought to provide a collective forum where educational issues could be examined and discussed through a multi-epistemic lens. During the program events participants were encouraged to share their personal perspectives of the classroom experience, and together discuss the implications that lived/life experience has on confronting bias in teaching. The evaluation of the pilot program employed a qualitative approach …
Associate Teacher Perspectives Of The Triumvirate Relationship In Teacher Education: The Role Of Faculty Advisors, Roland Karen
Associate Teacher Perspectives Of The Triumvirate Relationship In Teacher Education: The Role Of Faculty Advisors, Roland Karen
Education Publications
The literature suggests that teacher candidates identify the field experience as a valued aspect of their pre-service education. In field experience, associate teachers are significant contributors to the success of the triumvirate relationship (associate teacher/teacher candidate/faculty advisor). A study was conducted using an anonymous questionnaire to explore, from the perspective of associate teachers, potential strategies and/or recommendations that may strengthen this relationship. The findings of the study, specifically related to the expectations concerning the role of the faculty advisor to support associate teachers, are presented. Reflective practice is discussed in terms of its relevance to the triumvirate relationship. The article …