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‘THE PROFESSION OF TEACHER EDUCATOR’

Improving the profession of teacher educators. What we need to know about teacher educators. ‘THE PROFESSION OF TEACHER EDUCATOR’. Anja Swennen VU University Amsterdam. PLA, Reijkjavik 20-24 June 2010. This presentation. Introduction Who are the teacher educators? Identity of TE

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‘THE PROFESSION OF TEACHER EDUCATOR’

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  1. Improving the profession of teacher educators. What we need to know about teacher educators ‘THE PROFESSION OF TEACHER EDUCATOR’ Anja Swennen VU University Amsterdam PLA, Reijkjavik 20-24 June 2010

  2. This presentation Introduction Who are the teacher educators? Identity of TE Transition from teacher to teacher educator Professional development of teacher educators Recommendation

  3. Why focus on teacher educators? They are responsible for the education of (future) teachers and therefor for the education of all pupils and students They are the “linchpins” of educational reform (Cochran-Smith, 2003) If TE do not model good education, how can we expect teachers to engage in quality teaching Introduction Teacher Educators Matter

  4. What is the problem? There is muchattentionforteachers: theirpre-service and professional development butnotforthosewho have to teach the teachers Lack of attentionfor the quality of teacher educator in (inter)nationalpolicy Lack of attentionfor the quality, induction and professional development of teacher educators in TEI Teacher educators are notrecognized as a specializededucational professional groupwiththeirownneeds and wishes Introduction

  5. TE are a heterogenousgroup University based College based Who are the TE? Institute based School based Subject specialist in TEI / outside TEI Pedagogical subject specialist / subject didaktik’ Eductional/pedagogical specialist PhD Master degree Bachelor degree ‘Teacher’ Researcher

  6. Demandsfor teacher educators Plus Teaching experience (but not always) Supervising skills Teaching Internship Specialized training course (Portugal) Training course for trainers Who are the TE The same as other teachers in higher education Subject and subject area Degree PhD Master Bachelor Standards and registration Studying abroad

  7. University professor HE professor/Lecturer lektor/docent Assistent professor Adjunkt Teacher Part time lecturers Teacher educator (in documents) Teacher trainer Trainer Mentor Teacher Who are the TE Names of Teacher Educators • School based TE • Supervisors • Tutors • Teacher educators (in documents)

  8. The identity of TE The identity of TE An integration of: • Teacher in Higher Education • Researcher • Teacher in PE or SE • Second order teacher/practitioner • (Teacher in general)

  9. Who are the TE? Characteristics of the work of TE’rs • age • Complexity • Research • Droste effect • Teaching about teaching

  10. The identity of TE Teacher in PE/SE • Experience as a teacher • Experience in/withprofession of teachers • Legitemizing First orde context

  11. The identity of TE Second order teacher(Murray & Male, 2005) First order teacher teach their subject to pupils and students Second order teachers teach about teaching

  12. The identity of TE Second order teacher • Always aware of the second order context of TE and the first order context of teacher (Not subject content, but what does a teahcers need to know about a subject in order to teach it well) • Pedagogy of teacher education (Loughran, 2007): implies how to teach in a first order context and how to teach in a second order context • Explicit modelling

  13. PD Transition of teacher to TE Teacher+ further study TE Academic

  14. PD Teacher in PE and SE Leraar The experience as teacher and the reflection on that experence is part of the identity of TE lerarenopleider

  15. The transitionfrom teacher to TE’r PD Intergration of the former identity teacher (in PE or SE) into the identity of TE = teacher in higher education, researcher and second order practitioner

  16. PD Transition teacher to TE’er • Two to three years If not: • Less interest in pedagogy of teacher education • Less interest in research • More interest in school and pupils/studnets

  17. TE’er as teacher in general Teachers and TE as one professional group • Rather subject specialist • Rather academicus • Rather teacher

  18. PD PD of TE • Induction (second-phase induction, Morberg & Eisenschmidt, 2009; Van Velzen et al., 2010) • Activities to support and facilitate the transition from 1st to 2nd order teacher • PD courses : THE, research and pedagogy of teacher education Resources for TE (on line journals, books etc), money for PD, visiting conferences etc

  19. PD EJTE, 2008 PDiE, 2010 Emerging body of knowledgeabout and fromteacher educators TaTE, 2005

  20. Recommendation Professional development as Identity as teacher in HE Identity as researcher Identity as second order context And realisethisasks a lot of the specialistswhoeducate the TE’rs Recommendation 3

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