Learning to Navigate Tensions Within a Teacher Candidate Inquiry Course: Building an Inquiry Suspension Bridge

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable 9:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Empowerment and Agency: Navigating Inquiry and Critical Perspectives in Teacher Education and Workplace (Table 2)

Abstract

Practitioner inquiry has been used across in-service and pre-service contexts to provide educators with systematic ways to study their practice. Supporting teacher candidates in their first experiences with inquiry creates tensions for teacher educators and teacher candidates. This session explores how teacher educators navigated the underpinning tensions of teaching inquiry in the complex ecosystem of one teacher preparation hybrid course. Theorizing their experience to develop an “Inquiry Suspension Bridge” researchers will share strategies grounded in the Universal Design for Learning and Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Pedagogy instructional frameworks for providing stability and structure while responding flexibly to their students and themselves.

Authors

• Rachel Silva, University of Rhode Island

• Blake Mickle Beckett, University of Florida

• Michelle Commeret, University of Florida

• Lauren Weisberg, University of Texas - Arlington