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Designing Professional Development Contexts for Teacher Agentic Identity Exploration, Motivation, and Learning of Instructional Practice

Sun, April 14, 9:35 to 11:05am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 109B

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium focuses on the identity, motivation, and learning of different participants in a teacher PD context designed to promote agency in identity exploration, motivation for, and learning of discussion facilitation. The 5-day PD incorporated design principles aimed to promote participants’ identity exploration (Kaplan et al., 2014) into an existing model of job-embedded professional learning, the Learning Lab (Kavanagh et al., 2022). Uniquely, 80 high school students were included as experts on their own motivation and learning to provide feedback to the 27 participating teachers. The symposium’s papers relay findings suggesting that the social-cultural PD context supported the teachers’, teacher educators’, and students’ agency in their personal and collective identity exploration, with indications of likely transfer beyond the PD context.

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