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Studying Teacher Education
A journal of self-study of teacher education practices
Volume 15, 2019 - Issue 2
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Community, Towards Dialogue: A Self-Study of Online Teacher Preparation for Special Education

Comunidad, hacia el dialogo: Un self-study de formación docente en educación especial en línea

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Pages 160-178 | Received 04 Apr 2018, Accepted 08 Nov 2018, Published online: 02 Apr 2019
 

ABSTRACT

Online teacher education is experiencing significant growth worldwide. One of the major challenges accompanying this growth is that many teacher educators find themselves underprepared and under pressure to design online teacher education courses that reflect their beliefs about what constitutes high-quality teacher preparation practice. Further, teacher educators in disciplines such as special education face additional challenges in developing understandings about the legalities of writing and implementing disability service plans and performing additional testing. In this self-study of online special education teacher education practice, two collaborators worked to identify strategies and practices for professional community building in a class about teaching reading to students with disabilities. The findings highlight issues of teacher educator authority and presence online against other needs to model collegiality and promote scholarly thinking. Researchers in online teaching may find insight into both the cognitive and contextual concerns as they work to enhance online teacher education while they plan their own investigations.

La formación docente en línea está experimentando un crecimiento significativo alrededor del mundo. Uno de los mayores desafíos de este crecimiento es que muchos formadores de profesores se encuentran poco preparados ybajo presión para diseñar cursos de pedagogía por internet que reflejen sus creencias acerca de lo que constituye una práctica de formación docente de calidad. En particular, los formadores de profesores de disciplinas como la educación especial enfrentan desafíos adicionales al momento de desarrollar comprensiones acerca de las legalidades de la escritura, la implementación de planes de servicio para discapacidades yel uso de evaluación adicional. En este self-study de la práctica de formación pedagógica en educación especial en línea, dos colaboradores trabajaron para identificar estrategias yprácticas para la construcción de una comunidad profesional en un curso sobre la enseñanza de la lectura para estudiantes con discapacidades. Los hallazgos destacan problemáticas de autoridad docente ypresencia en línea, en contraste con otras necesidades de modelamiento de colaboración ydesarrollo de pensamiento académico. Los investigadores que se interesan en la enseñanza en línea podrían encontrar ideas respecto alas preocupaciones tanto cognitivas como contextuales al trabajar en el mejoramiento de la formación docente en línea yrespecto aideas para planificar sus propias investigaciones.

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