Studying the Benefits for In-Service Teachers Within In Situ Teacher Education Methods Courses

• In Event: 35.078 - MTCC Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: 35.078-5 - Teacher Learning Through Writing and Experience

Abstract

Now in our seventh year, this university-school district partnership was designed to support teacher candidates to develop rich socio-cultural understandings of literacy learning and pedagogy and to offer in-service teachers opportunities to refine their knowledge of, in and for practice (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 2009). While there has been research on the benefits of in situ teacher methods courses for teacher candidates, we sought to understand the benefits and learning for school-based in-service teachers who participate in such initiatives as called for in the research literature (Jacobs Henry, et al., 2010; Schlusser, 2006; Taylor & Sobel, 2003).

Authors

• Leyton Schnellert, The University of British Columbia

• Donna Lynn Kozak, The University of British Columbia - Okanagan