Transforming Teacher Preparation Through Identity, Development, and Effective Technologies

Denise LaVoie Sargent

In the landscape of global education, there is a dire shortage of teachers, exacerbated by declining enrollment rates and a mass exodus of educators, particularly in urban settings. UNESCO's revelation that millions of teachers are needed by 2030 underscores the critical gaps in our ability to provide quality education. As the education sector grapples with these challenges, Transforming Teacher Preparation Through Identity, Development, and Effective Technologies , offers valuable solutions. This compilation responds to the pressing need for a paradigm shift in teacher preparation, offering insights, recommendations, and diverse perspectives from experts worldwide to address the current crisis and shape the future of education. Teacher shortages and diminishing enrollment rates, coupled with the departure of educators, pose a significant threat to the quality of education globally. Urban areas, in particular, witness a disproportionate exodus of educators, creating disparities that impact the most vulnerable students. The COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized the need for innovative, technology-driven solutions in teacher preparation. As schools deal with these issues, the imperative is to not only reflect on the current state of teacher preparation but also to set forth recommendations that will transform the field, ensuring a robust and resilient education system for the years to come.

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  • ISBN: 9798369318065
  • Publication Date: Jun 2024
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Handbook of Research on Transforming Teachers' Online Pedagogical Reasoning for Engaging K-12 Students in Virtual Learning

Margaret L. Niess

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically transformed the classroom by keeping students and teachers apart for the sake of safety. As schools emptied, remote learning rapidly expanded through online services and video chatrooms. Unfortunately, this disrupted many students and teachers who were not accustomed to remote classrooms. This challenge has forced K-12 teachers to think differently about teaching. Unexpectedly and with little time to prepare, they have been confronted with redesigning their curriculum and instruction from face-to-face to online virtual classrooms to protect students from the COVID-19 virus while ensuring that these new online initiatives remain sustainable and useful in the post-pandemic world. As teachers learn to take advantage of the affordances and strengths of the multiple technologies available for virtual classroom instruction, their instruction both in online and face-to-face will impact what and how students learn in the 21st century. The Handbook of Research on Transforming Teachers' Online Pedagogical Reasoning for Engaging K-12 Students in Virtual Learning examines the best practices and pedagogical reasoning for designing online strategies that work for K-12 virtual learning. The initial section provides foundational pedagogical ideas for constructing engaging virtual learning environments that leverage the unique strengths and opportunities while avoiding the weaknesses and threats of the online world. The following chapters present instructional strategies for multiple grade levels and content areas: best practices that work, clearly describing why they work, and the teachers' pedagogical reasoning that supports online implementations. The chapters provide ways to think about teaching in virtual environments that can be used to guide instructional strategy choices and recognizes the fundamental differences between face-to-face and virtual environments as an essential design component. Covering such topics as K-12 classrooms, pedagogical reasoning, and virtual learning, this text is perfect for professors, teachers, students, educational designers and developers, instructional technology faculty, distance learning faculty, and researchers interested in the subject.

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  • ISBN: 9781799872221
  • Publication Date: Mar 2024
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When Challenge Brings Change

Sandra Murphy

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780807769102
  • Publication Date: Nov 2023
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Coaching in Communities

Melissa Mosley Wetzel

A revolutionary framework for preservice teacher learning centered on justice-focused coaching that encourages culturally responsive practice and disrupts systems of oppression.

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  • ISBN: 9781682538197
  • Publication Date: Jun 2023
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The Art of Awareness

Deb Curtis

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  • ISBN: 9781605547305
  • Publication Date: Jun 2022
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Impact of Digital Transformation in Teacher Training Models

Ana Afonso

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  • ISBN: 9781799895381
  • Publication Date: Feb 2022
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Transforming Curriculum Through Teacher-Learner Partnerships

Pradeep Nair

Empowering learners for life requires a fundamental shift in higher education curriculum design. New priorities, pedagogies, technologies, spaces, and assessment strategies are required to enable learners to take ownership of their learning. "Student-centeredness" concepts are still prescriptive in nature as most decisions on curriculum, assessment, teaching, and learning approaches are still teacher-centric. Teachers are developing student-centered learning environments without the involvement of the learners in the planning, decision making, and/or design process. In addition, some lecturers are still practicing the traditional approaches of content delivery and conventional assessment methods rather than experimenting with innovative practices suited for student-centered approaches. Therefore, there is an ongoing need for research focused on the importance and effectiveness of a paradigm shift in education that involves student-teacher partnerships, fueled by innovative teaching and learning designs, where students take an active role and contribute as partners in learning. Transforming Curriculum Through Teacher-Learner Partnerships captures experiences and evidence among teachers in exploring the possibility of active student participation in curriculum design, delivery, and assessment through teacher-learner partnership. The chapters address issues of teacher-learner partnerships in designing the learning environment and how student-centered methods create resilient, adaptable, and future-capable learners. While highlighting topics within this scope such as learner autonomy, learning performance, self-efficacy, and teaching pedagogy, this book is ideally intended for teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in issues related to the teacher-learner partnership.

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  • ISBN: 9781799864455
  • Publication Date: Dec 2020
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Powerful Understanding

Adrienne Gear

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  • ISBN: 9781551383286
  • Publication Date: Apr 2018
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The Flight of a Butterfly or the Path of a Bullet?

Larry Cuban

In this book, Larry Cuban looks at the uses and effects of digital technologies in K–12 classrooms, exploring if and how technology has transformed teaching and learning.

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  • ISBN: 9781682531372
  • Publication Date: Mar 2018
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Teachers as Allies

Shelley Wong

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  • ISBN: 9780807758861
  • Publication Date: Dec 2017
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Transformative Teachers

Kira J. Baker-Doyle

Transformative Teachers offers an insightful look at the growing movement of civic-minded educators who are using twenty-first-century participatory practices and connected technologies to organize change from the ground up.

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  • ISBN: 9781682530337
  • Publication Date: May 2017
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Handbook of Research on Transforming Mathematics Teacher Education in the Digital Age

Margaret Niess

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781522501206
  • Publication Date: Apr 2016
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Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice

Eva Zygmunt

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780807757109
  • Publication Date: Nov 2015
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Educating Literacy Teachers Online

Lane W. Clarke

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780807754962
  • Publication Date: Jan 2014
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Transforming Teacher Education

David Carroll

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781891792335
  • Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Transforming the Multicultural Education of Teachers

Michael Vavrus

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780807742600
  • Publication Date: Aug 2002
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Commitment to Excellence

Ann Diver-Stamnes

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781572734067
  • Publication Date: Feb 2002
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