Authoring Visions: Visioning as a Tool to Support Beginning Teachers

• In Event: Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: Lives of Teachers SIG Poster Session

Abstract

A teacher's vision has been characterized as a compass (Duffy, 2002) and as an ideal image of what one hopes to become and to accomplish with their teaching (Hammerness, 2006). Visions are grounded in teachers’ understandings and beliefs and evolve through the (re)construction of lived experiences and social interactions. As a result, scholars suggest that using teacher visioning as a pre-service preparation tool may help overcome barriers to high-quality university-based teacher education and may help beginning teachers overcome the challenges of teaching in today’s high-stakes educational climate (Hall, 2009; Hammerness et al., 2005). The goal of this study was to explore this hypothesis by documenting 10 pre-service and in-service teachers enrolled across contexts and their visions for teaching.

Authors

• Margaret Vaughn, University of Idaho

• Seth A. Parsons, George Mason University

• Jacquelynn A. Malloy, Clemson University