"It's ALL Experiential!" Cultivating Knowledge, Skills, and Mindsets That Prepare and Support Resilient Teachers

• In Event: Honing Humanizing Practices: Nurturing Resilience, Mindfulness, and Justice in Teacher Education

Abstract

As educators consider new models of teaching and learning in the pandemic’s wake to support 21st century learning to create “systems that honor the full range of ways of knowing and developing, and of student needs”, we need to simultaneously consider what these models look like in teacher preparation. Are we engaging the “whole range of human experiences” in teacher education to prepare resilient teachers who can thrive in and beyond crises? This paper presents findings from beginning teacher narratives as participants engaged in a professional learning community geared to explore the impact of the pandemic on their teaching and the ways experiential education (EE) as practiced in their Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program informed their pandemic practice.

Authors

• Cheryl Mason Bolick, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Jocelyn A. Glazier, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Suzanne A. Gulledge, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Kristin Papoi, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Nicole Ross, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill