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Using Representations of Practice in Teacher
Education
Pam Grossman, Stanford
Anna Richert, Mills College
Presentation at Michigan State University,
September 2006
With a lot of help from our friends!
Project funded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching & the Goldman Foundation
Quest Colleagues
Overview of Session
Project overview Teacher educators’ use of multi-media
representations of practice Predictable dilemmas facing teacher educators Learning from the practice of others: Making
practice visible to novices Making the practice of teacher educators visible
Questions for the future
Project Overview
Making practice visible: The development of CASTL websites
Learning to use multi-media materials in teacher education: developing curriculum and pedagogy
Creating a community of teacher educators Making the practice of teacher educators visible:
Quest websites of teacher educators Making learning visible: documenting student
learning from websites
Pam’s dilemma
How do I help students learn to lead text-based, student centered discussion in an English methods class Discussion as an example of high-leverage practice in the
teaching of English Lack of strong, common examples from which students can learn
Learning to lead text-based, student centered discussion in an English
methods class
Use of Yvonne Divans Hutchinson’s website http://www.goingpublicwithteaching.org/yhutchinson/ Working to elaborate the initial website
Goals for student learning: Principles: To understand the range of
strategies related both to reading and discussion that teachers need to introduce to prepare students for discussion
Practice: To learn to enact one or two of these strategies in student teaching and to analyze their practice
Using multi-media representations:
A multi-part assignment
Investigating practice: learning to learn from the practice of others Pairs of students investigate a question about
Yvonne’s practice Students lead a small-group discussion with
peers about this question
Using multi-media representations:
A multi-part assignment
Lily leads a small groups discussion on the norms Yvonne has established for discussion
Using multi-media representations
Enacting practice: learning from one’s own practice Students identify and try out a strategy or idea
they’ve learned from Yvonne Students choose a videoclip of their practice to
share with peers
Anna’s teaching dilemma
How to help students grapple with the centrality of “knowing the learner” in secondary school teaching.
How to help students think about knowing the learner as learners of particular subject matters rather than learners “in general.”
Using multimedia representations
Where the Quest sites fit in: One one of three “texts” in the Adolescent Development class
Using multi-media representations
Where the Quest sites fit in: One one of 3 “texts” in the Adolescent Development class
Students assigned sites by subject area Students are asked to:
Investigate (alone and with partners) the practice of learner responsive teachers using the Quest Sites
Explore insights and puzzles about teaching with high school partners
Enact strategies in their classrooms
Learning from Marsha
Individual and partner website investigations.
Class discussions about the teaching and learning viewed there.
Written reflections guided by 3 questions.
Conversations with high school partners.
Classroom enactment.
Learning from Yvonne with a high school partner: Step III
Individual and partner website investigations.
Class discussions about the teaching and learning viewed there.
Written reflections guided by 3 questions.
Conversations with high school partners.
Classroom enactment.
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Making the practice of teacher educators visible
Documenting the use of multi-media materials in our classrooms
Creating sites for teacher educator learning
Future directions
Creation of professional community around the pedagogy of teacher education Exhibitions of teacher educator sites
Development of novice teacher educators Seminar in the pedagogy of teacher education
Doctoral students investigate TE websites
Research
Key Questions for the future
What central principles and practices lend themselves to multimedia representation?
How do we design multi-media representations of practice to best support novice learning?
What practices, assignments, and contexts facilitate learning from multimedia representations?
Given the time-intensive nature of learning from multi-media representations, on what aspects of practice do we choose to focus students’ attention?
Links
To teacher educator websites: http://quest.carnegiefoundation.org/AERA2006
To K-12 websites: http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org
To Quest site (soon to be launched)
http://www.insideteaching.org
Making student learning visible
Student discussions of Yvonne’s website Students’ written analyses of Yvonne’s website Class debrief on experimenting with strategies Reflection papers on experimenting with
strategies Videos of trying strategies out in classroom Class discussion of peer videos Videos of first and second year teachers
teaching with discussion
Evidence of student learning
Student discussions of the Quest website Students’ written analyses of the teaching Plans and reflections on trying out one of the
strategies in the student teaching setting. Questionnaires and freewrite data throughout
the term Focus group discussion three months after the
Carnegie website work Follow up with first year teachers one year later