scholarly journals Learning "B-Learning" through "B-Learning": A Practice Model for Teachers' Professional Development

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Huang ◽  
Xibin Han ◽  
Yuping Wang
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Practice Model ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

scholarly journals Preservice Teachers’ Professional Development in a Community of Practice Summer Literacy Camp for Children At-Risk: A Sociocultural Perspective

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Richards
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Practice Model ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

This inquiry applied an innovative sociocultural framework to examine transformations in preservice teachers’ professional development as they worked with children at-risk in a summer literacy camp. The camp incorporated a community of practice model in which teams of master’s and doctoral students mentored small groups of preservice teachers. The study examined preservice teachers ’ learning following Rogoff’s (1995, 1997) notions of the personal, interpersonal, and community planes of analysis. The research also employed a postmodernist crystallization imagery to capture multiple perspectives on the preservice teachers’ growth. The study assigns importance to the contextual dimensions in which learning takes place, and emphasizes that learning is nourished by interactions with others.

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