Search results for: Grierson Arlene L.

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The Bricks and Mortar of our Foundation for Faculty Development: Book-Study within a Self-Study Professional Learning Community
Authors: Grierson Arlene L., Tessaro Mary Lynn, Grant Christina, Cantalini-Williams Maria, Denton Rick, Quigg Keith, Bumstead Jeff
This paper explores the experiences of seven teacher educators who met monthly over one academic year to engage in a collaborative self-study focused on exploring the text, Developing a Pedagogy of Teacher Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning about Teaching. The authors' experiences demonstrate how self-study research, undertaken within the context of a professional learning community engaged in book-study. Their experiences hold the potential to enhance teacher educators’ understandings, foster collaboration, and provide a catalyst for meaningful observations about their practices, students, and teacher education program. The authors highlight that this has altered some of their practices and their discourse with others.
Published: 2012
Updated: Nov. 01, 2018
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Facilitating Professional Development during International Practicum: Understanding our Work as Teacher Educators through Critical Incidents
Authors: Williams Judy, Grierson Arlene L.
This article describes collaborative self-study details the experiences of two teacher educators, who led teacher candidates on international practicum placements. This study documents the complexities of two teacher educators’ work in unfamiliar cultural contexts and highlights tensions to be navigated as a teacher educator in an international practicum setting. The analyzes of their experiences make it clear that they as teacher educators were on a learning journey similar to that of their teacher candidates. Collaborative analysis of the critical incidents conducted during this self-study enabled them to acquire greater understandings of their academic, professional, and personal identities.
Published: 2016
Updated: Feb. 15, 2017
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Changing Conceptions of Effective Teacher Education: The Journey of A Novice Teacher Educator
Authors: Grierson Arlene L.
This article examines the author’s three-year journey developing a personal pedagogy of teacher education. As an autobiographical self-study, nodal moments are revealed that raise and reflect the tensions the author experienced and the challenges the author encountered. The author argues that teacher educators, particularly those teaching part time, need to be supported in learning how to facilitate identification of their own and teacher candidates’ beliefs about teaching.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 20, 2010