Teaching Partners: Elementary Third-year Fall Term Option is supported by a research grant in order to study and better understand the nature and effects of this alternative approach to teacher education. The grant, Partnerships for a Change: Becoming Teachers in Changing Times, is provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (2006-09). Reproduced below are the texts of selected conference presentations and manuscripts derived from study of the fall term option. Your comments are welcome.
david [dot] dillon [at] mcgill [dot] ca (David Dillon)
Dillon, D. and Strong-Wilson, T. (2005) Exploring How to Make Field-based Teacher Education More Effective. OISE/UT conference Teacher Education for the Schools We Need, Toronto, May 13, 2005.
Slower, Deeper, Broader: How to Make Field-based Techer Education More Effective [.pdf]
Dillon, D., O’Connor, K., Strong-Wilson, T., and Rudd, C. (2007) Improving Teacher Education in Changing Times Through Experiential Education. Annual conference of Canadian Society for Studies in Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 27.
Improving Teacher Education in Changing Times Through Experiential Education. [.pdf]
Strong-Wilson, T., Rudd, C., Mongrain, N., Dillon, D., and O’Connor, K. (2007) Breaking the “Fru Fru” Image: Exploring the Role of School-University Partnerships in Constructing Teacher Identity in Pre-service Education. Annual conference of Canadian Society for Studies in Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 29.
Breaking the Fru Fru Image [.pdf]
O’Connor, K., and Dillon, D. (2008) Pedagogical relationships as curriculum in a teacher education program. Paper presented at annual conference of American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Columbia University, New York City, March 23.
AAACS 2008 Pedagogical Relationship in Teacher Education [.pdf]
Dillon, D., and O’Connor, K. (2008) Toward a pedagogy of experiential teacher education. Paper presented at annual conference of Canadian Society for Studies in Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2.
Toward_a_Pedagogy_of_Experiential_Teacher_Education [.pdf]
Strong-Wilson, T., Dillon D., Rudd, C., Mongrain, N., and O’Connor, K. Who’s going to be our teacher? Manuscript submitted for review to Journal of Teacher Education.
Who will be our teacher? [.pdf]