Integrating Multidimensional Creativity Into a Collaborative and Reflective Online TESOL Practicum Course

• In Event: Insights From Research on Equity Issues in Second-Language Teaching and Teacher Education

Abstract

This qualitative case study examined how creativity was integrated into an online TESOL practicum course with in‐service teachers. To examine a research question of “how creativity was manifested in an online practicum course, two main data sets were analyzed: VoiceThread projects (teaching videos, talks, and texts) and final papers. Findings are presented under three themes of creativity in action. First, creativity was exercised dialogically among peers through the VoiceThread project. Second, creativity was translated as new pedagogy for teaching English learners. Finally, innovative use of technology was the key to enhancing teachers’ critical view of their own teaching and to increasing opportunities to learn from each other in a communal space such as Canvas and VoiceThread.

Authors

• Kim Hyunsook Song, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Dawn Thieman, University of Missouri - St. Louis