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Being a Teacher Educator in Challenging Times: Negotiating the Rapids of Professional Learning (PDF)
This book presents a duoethnographic exploration and narrative account of what it means to be a teacher educator today. Adopting a narrative approach, the book presents different personal, political and institutional perspectives to interrogate common challenges facing teacher education and teacher educators today. In addition, the book compares and contrasts the teacher education landscapes in Australia and the UK and addresses a broad range of topics, including the autobiographical nature of teacher educators’ work, the value of learning from experience, the importance of collegiality and collaboration in learning to become a teacher educator, and the intersection of the personal, professional and political in the development of teacher educator pedagogies and research agendas. Each chapter combines personal narratives and research-based perspectives on the key dimensions of teacher educators’ work that can be found in the literature, including self-study research. Readers will gain a better understanding of the processes, influences and relationships that make being a teacher educator both a challenging and rewarding career. Accordingly, the book offers a valuable asset for university leaders, experienced and beginning teacher educators, and researchers interested in the professional learning and development of teacher educators. (From the Publisher)
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One-page Teaching Tactic that sends students walking around campus to take photos that fit prompts sent by the professor using What'sApp.
One-page Teaching Tactic that works with embodied metaphors and drawing to help students draw relationships between complicated concepts.
One-page Teaching Tactic that has students write creatively in the voice of an ancient person to help them learn to exercise sensitivity to historical, social, political, and social contexts of ancient documents and gain proficiency in reading texts critically and sympathetically.
One-page Teaching Tactic that describes assignments using the new Religious Sounds Project database, helping students explore what counts as "religion."
One-page Teaching Tactic describing break out groups that integrate online-distance students with face-to-face students in the classroom.
One-page Teaching Tactic that helps students reflect critically on their own positionalities and to culturally and historically contextualize the life of a human figure they are studying.
One-page Teaching Tactic that uses pages from a children's book to concretize theoretical lessons about exegesis such as the contextual translation of words, reading in community, and larger literary, historical, social, and theological contexts.