C&T Colloquium: Exploring & Modeling an Approach to Teaching (or Vision of Teaching) in Pre-Service Education, with Clive Beck & Clare Kosnik
- 305 Russell
- 2/12/2013, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- http://library.tc.columbia.edu/
Come
join us for an informative discussion on Tuesday, February 12th of Exploring & Modeling an Approach to Teaching (or Vision of Teaching) in Pre-Service Education, with Professor Clive Beck and
Professor Clare Kosnik of Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
University of Toronto.
Professor Clive
Beck has served as Coordinator of Graduate Studies and Chair of the
Graduate Department of Educational Theory at OISE/UT and is past-president of
the American Philosophy of Education Society. His books include Educational
Philosophy and Theory; Better
Schools; Learning Values in Adulthood; Priorities
in Teacher Education; and Teaching
in a Nutshell (the last 3 co-authored with Clare Kosnik). He is
currently writing a book (with Kosnik) tentatively titled Growing as a
Teacher. He has been involved in many funded research projects on values
education, teaching, and teacher education. Most recently, he has been
principal investigator (with Kosnik) of three large-scale longitudinal studies
of teachers - Teacher Education for Literacy Teaching (2003-2007), Key
Components of Learning to Teach Literacy (2006-2010), and Teacher Change
and Growth (2010-2015) - all funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). He is also co-investigator (with Kosnik) of
the SSHRC large-scale project Literacy Teacher Educators (2011-20160.
Professor Kosnik's authored books include Innovations
in Teacher Education; Priorities
in Teacher Education; and Teaching
in a Nutshell (co-authored with Clive Beck). She has co-edited Making
a Difference in Teacher Education through Self-Study (Springer); Learning
Communities in Practice (Springer); and Self-study Methodologies for
Teacher Educators (Sense). She is currently co-editing Literacy Teacher
Educators: Preparing Student Teachers for a Changing World and co-authoring
Growing as a Teacher. She has been involved in many large-scale funded
research projects on teaching and teacher education, including Teacher
Education for Literacy Teaching (2003-2007), Key Components of Learning
to Teach Literacy (2006-2010, Teacher Change and Growth (2010-2016),
and Literacy Teacher Educators (2011-2016), all funded by the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Clive Beck is Professor in the Department of Curriculum,Teaching and Learning
at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
(OISE/UT). He teaches in the graduate program and in the Midtown elementary
pre-service program. His graduate courses include Foundations of Curriculum
& Teaching and Reflective Professional Development, and his main
pre-service course is School &Society.
Clare
Kosnik is Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
(OISE/UT). In the graduate program, she teaches courses both on teacher
education and literacy methods (the latter in the Master of Teaching
pre-service program). She has held a number of leadership positions at OISE/UT:
Director of the Master of Teaching program; Head of the Centre for Teacher
Education and Development; Director of the Elementary Preservice Program; and
Coordinator of the Midtown Cohort. In 2003, she took a three year leave of
absence from OISE/UT to be Executive Director of the Teachers for a New Era
research and development project at Stanford University, one of the largest
initiatives in teacher education.
Persons interested in attending may rsvp by Thursday, February 7th.
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Initiated in the Fall 2012, the Curriculum and Teaching Colloquium Series serves as a privileged space for students to gain a broader awareness of curricular discussions with international and national scholars.
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