Preparing for the Complexities of Teaching: Modeling Conceptual Thinking in Post-Observation Conferences
In order for teacher educators to prepare teachers for complexities of language teaching, their nature needs to be understood. Vygotskian sociocultural theory ofers a useful framework for construing such complexities. Vygotsky distinguished between everyday and scientiic concepts, and saw the intera...
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| description | In order for teacher educators to prepare teachers for complexities of language teaching, their nature needs to be understood. Vygotskian sociocultural theory ofers a useful framework for construing such complexities. Vygotsky distinguished between everyday and scientiic concepts, and saw the interaction of the two as conceptual thinking, the basis for higher order cognitive skills. Johnson (2009) frames learning to teach as the development of conceptual thinking and considers the nature of the dialogue in teacher education activities as crucial to this development. Drawing on longitudinal data from a semester-long case study of the dialogic interactions between a teacher and teacher educator, this study illustrates how the teacher educator modeled conceptual thinking in her language. We propose a taxonomy of conceptualizations about language teaching that may help teacher educators be more purposeful in designing activities for and interacting with novice teachers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7c040dde0c194f30b87a80e7e2e58aa12022-12-21T23:22:31ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262015-06-0168109110310.5007/2175-8026.2015v68n1p9123949Preparing for the Complexities of Teaching: Modeling Conceptual Thinking in Post-Observation ConferencesJane K. Harvey0Camilla Vásquez1University of South FloridaUniversity of South FloridaIn order for teacher educators to prepare teachers for complexities of language teaching, their nature needs to be understood. Vygotskian sociocultural theory ofers a useful framework for construing such complexities. Vygotsky distinguished between everyday and scientiic concepts, and saw the interaction of the two as conceptual thinking, the basis for higher order cognitive skills. Johnson (2009) frames learning to teach as the development of conceptual thinking and considers the nature of the dialogue in teacher education activities as crucial to this development. Drawing on longitudinal data from a semester-long case study of the dialogic interactions between a teacher and teacher educator, this study illustrates how the teacher educator modeled conceptual thinking in her language. We propose a taxonomy of conceptualizations about language teaching that may help teacher educators be more purposeful in designing activities for and interacting with novice teachers.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/39467sociocultural theoryconceptual thinkingpost-observation conferences |
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| title | Preparing for the Complexities of Teaching: Modeling Conceptual Thinking in Post-Observation Conferences |
| title_full | Preparing for the Complexities of Teaching: Modeling Conceptual Thinking in Post-Observation Conferences |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Preparing for the Complexities of Teaching: Modeling Conceptual Thinking in Post-Observation Conferences |
| title_short | Preparing for the Complexities of Teaching: Modeling Conceptual Thinking in Post-Observation Conferences |
| title_sort | preparing for the complexities of teaching modeling conceptual thinking in post observation conferences |
| topic | sociocultural theory conceptual thinking post-observation conferences |
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