Creating a Teacher Collective: Professional Development Within the Group, the Community, and the Network - Softcover

Maria Impedovo; Karen Ferreira-Meyers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475869371 ISBN 13: 9781475869378

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023

Synopsis

The present book addresses the following challenge: How do we create and sustain a teacher community? For practitioners, the main question in this handbook is: How do we build and facilitate teacher communities? The different chapters discuss teacher interaction for learning and professional development in light of three constructs: the group, the community, and the network.
There is a wealth of literature, especially on theoretical frameworks, success factors, and barriers to participation in teacher communities. However, this book addresses the need for a step-by-step guide with valuable suggestions for those who want to create (from scratch) and support a community of teachers brought together to deal with specific issues and, importantly, mediated by educational technology

About this title

About the Authors

Sean O'Connell has been teaching for over thirty years as both a special educator and social studies classroom teacher. Sean is certified on both Special Education and Social Studies and is a National Board Certified Educator. He has received the Murray Excellence in Teaching award at Niskayuna High School, and an Excellence in Teaching Award from the State University of New York at Albany.

Karen Ferreira-Meyers is the Coordinator Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Institute of Distance Education in the University of Eswatini (Eswatini, Southern Africa). She is also a research fellow of the University of the Free State (South Africa). She holds four Master's degrees and a PhD in French and Francophone autofictional writing. She is a keen translator and interpreter. She publishes widely and regularly in various fields of research, among which the teaching and learning of languages; Open, Distance and e-Learning; online instruction and facilitation; autofiction and autobiography; crime and detective fiction; African literatures in European languages.

Noriyuki Inoue, Ph.D. is a Professor at Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University in Japan. He specializes in educational psychology and educational research methods. His recent research projects include teacher expertise development, social-emotional learning, educational innovation, lesson study and action research methodology. He serves as a board member of the Japan Association of Research on Educator Transformation (JARET), and frequently serves as consultants and advisors for schools and organizations across the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475869371
• ISBN 13: 9781475869378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184