How do teachers learn to innovate their teaching?

Description

In many schools and universities new approaches to teaching and learning are being introduced. They aim to educate students to think independently, critically, and deep about societal problems and to keep learning and developing during their professional lives. They intent to enable graduates to work independently and collaboratively with others, contribute to understanding and solving complex problems, and communicate with professionals from other disciplines and with practitioners. Problem-based learning, project-based learning, personalized learning pathways, flipped classrooms, phenomenal learning and challenge-based learning are just a few educational innovations that have been adopted to help students to attain these aims through better learning: more active, deep, self-regulated, intrinsically motivated, collaborative, interdisciplinary, meaning-oriented and application-oriented learning. Innovations like these require very different teacher roles than many are used to, such as tutor, skills assessor, problem designer, digital teacher, and coach of students’ learning, problem solving and collaboration processes. Often teachers are struggling with these new roles.
In this keynote I will focus on how teachers learn to keep up with the challenges of 21st century teaching and learning. What approaches to teacher learning are more beneficial than others? What personal and contextual factors influence patterns in teachers’ learning? What approaches to teacher professional development are most powerful to bring about productive teacher learning? I will use exiting new research in these areas of the learning sciences to try to achieve a better understanding of teacher professional learning in the context of innovations in education.

Period	18 Oct 2023
Event title	14th International Conference on Education & Educational Psychology
Event type	Conference
Location	Barcelona, SpainShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International