In-Service Teachers' Professional Development Featuring Asynchronous Virtual Conversations

• In Event: 72.049 - Roundtable Session 34
  In Roundtable Session: 72.049-8 - Innovative Approaches to Writing and Instruction

Abstract

Here I report on a design-based research investigation where I asked: To what degree can virtual conversations help intermediate-school social studies teachers develop professional teaching knowledge? Analysis of two mid-semester virtual conversations suggests participants with fewer discipline-specific connections seemed to develop professional teaching knowledge for social studies teaching-and-learning.

Author

• Cory Callahan, The University of Alabama