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Direct linkDobie, Tracy E.; Anderson, Eleanor R. – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
This article explores how teachers can use the sentence stems "I notice" and "I wonder" to deepen professional conversations with colleagues, both in person and in online spaces.
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Interprofessional Relationship, Communities of Practice, Observation
Solorzano, Daniel G. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This chapter recounts the story of how I came to design a Research Apprenticeship Course at UCLA--what we call the RAC. I lay out the origin story of the RAC dating back to early collaborations with Arturo Madrid of the Tomas Rivera Policy Research Center and the Ford Foundation Family of Fellows in the mid to late 1980s. These collaborations…
Descriptors: Student Research, Research Projects, Apprenticeships, Research Training
Download full textUNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Sustainable Development Goals call on Members States to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all" and sets a number of targets related to technical and vocational education and training (TVET). In order to collect input from the global TVET community, UNESCO-UNEVOC organized a…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Videoconferencing, Vocational Education, Research Projects
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2016
This virtual conference took place from September 28 to October 3 on UNESCO-UNEVOC's e-Forum and brought together 165 participants from 57 countries. This virtual conference was the twelfth in a series of moderator-driven discussions introduced by UNESCO-UNEVOC in 2011. Conducted on the UNEVOC e-Forum--a global online community of over 4,000…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Videoconferencing, Vocational Education, Educational Principles
Bowman, Richard F. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
Conversational competence is a process, not a state. Ithaca does not exist, only the voyage to Ithaca. Vibrant campuses are a series of productive conversations. At its core, communicative competence in academic settings mirrors a collective search for meaning regarding the purpose and direction of a campus community. Communicative competence…
Descriptors: Competence, Organizational Communication, Leadership Qualities, Leadership Styles
Nelson, Tamara Holmlund; Deuel, Angie; Slavit, David; Kennedy, Anne – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2010
Collaborative inquiry groups, such as professional learning communities and lesson study groups, are proliferating in schools across the United States. In whatever form, the potential for impacting student learning through this collaborative work is expanded or limited by the nature of teachers' conversations. Polite, congenial conversations…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development
Byington, Teresa A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2011
A community of practice provides a forum for professionals to exchange ideas and discuss concerns related to the profession. Within this forum, technology can eliminate many of the constraints face-to-face communities of practice encounter by providing a convenient and highly interactive environment. A description of how to set up an online…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Computer System Design
Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
In this paper we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Bach, Dorothe J. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2011
This article seeks to inspire humanities and social science faculty to explore ways of utilizing existing scholarly online communities to engage students in the process of academic inquiry. The author discusses her own experience using a discipline-specific listserv, shares successful assignments, examples of student postings and a grading rubric.…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Social Sciences, Learning Experience, Humanities
Melkun, Cheryl Hawkinson – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2012
In November 2008 the Sloan Consortium published "Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States." This study produced survey statistics relating to enrollments in online courses. The study confirmed what most administrators and faculty members already suspected: the growth of online higher education continues to be astounding;…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Discourse Communities, Higher Education, Writing (Composition)
Dixon, Carol N.; Green, Judith – Language Arts, 2009
In this article, the authors present a "telling case" of the history of the Santa Barbara Classroom Discourse Group (SBCDG) and describe how policies supported and constrained the work of this sustaining community. As a telling case, this discussion of policy issues that were constructed and faced by members of the SBCDG does not claim…
Descriptors: Group Experience, Policy Analysis, Case Studies, Inquiry
Scherff, Lisa; Singer, Nancy Robb – Learning Inquiry, 2008
In this article we suggest that online environments can function as alternate "organizations" for pre-service and beginning teachers who may find themselves struggling in schools. Building on prior work on framing and reframing in organizations and schools, the authors present a new frame of analysis specifically geared for web-based…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication, Beginning Teachers, Discourse Analysis
Mullin, Joan; Schorn, Susan; Turner, Tim; Hertz, Rachel; Davidson, Derek; Baca, Amanda – Across the Disciplines, 2008
Classroom-based writing mentors facilitate learning and knowledge transfer for both students and instructors in their classes. They accomplish this by doing "with" rather than by only teaching "to", making the means of learning more visible and, therefore, the writing goals more accessible; this provides a powerful means of…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Mentors, Peer Teaching
Fahrni, Patricia – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
The previous report in this series discussed how collaborative tools can be used in the development of formal and non-formal online communities. The current report describes the specific development of an online community advocacy group.
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, Advocacy, Communities of Practice
