Tickets out of Class (TOCs) to Reflect on Learning in Teacher Education: Enhancing Teacher Educators' Responsiveness

• In Event: Exploring Classroom Practices in Diverse Settings With Self-Study

Abstract

It is necessary for teachers, including teacher educators, to be able to negotiate the complex realities they encounter in their everyday practice. The pedagogy of teacher education involves both what student teachers are learning and how. The purpose of this self-study of educational practice (S-STEP) was to understand how continuous information and feedback from students about their learning can enhance teaching in teacher education. In our practice we emphasized critical reflection and formative assessment as we created and developed TOC. Preliminary findings indicate that students´ messages through TOC affected our teaching to adjust our course to students´ request and provided us as teacher educators with opportunities to learn and develop our teaching.

Authors

• Hafdis Gudjonsdottir, University of Iceland

• Svanborg Rannveig Jónsdóttir, University of Iceland