Rýnum og ræðum um kennaramenntun!

Vinnustofa fyrir háskólakennara, þriðjudaginn 27. maí kl.11.00-13.00 með Dr. Karen Hammerness Fulbright sérfræðingi við HÍ í Veröld - húsi Vigdísar, 1. hæð.

Markmið vinnustofunnar er að skapa háskólakennurum sem skipuleggja kennaramenntun að rýna bæði í eigið starf og ræða skipulag námsins í heild. Vinnustofan gefur háskólakennurum og námsbrautum tækifæri til að fræðast um reynslu annarra þjóða, spegla eigið starf og skoða leiðir til að efla kennaramenntun hér á landi.

Vinnustofan fer fram á 1. hæð í Veröld - Húsi Vigdísar og verður boðið upp á kaffiveitingar. Áhugasöm eru beðin að skrá sig hér. 

Vinnustofan er haldin af fagráði Menntavísindasviðs um kennaramenntun og fer fram á ensku.

Exploring Icelandic Teacher Education Practice and Programs in International Contexts:

A case-based seminar led by Dr. Karen Hammerness

Designed as an opportunity for shared, professional discussion and reflection on practice, this seminar is intended to provide an opportunity for faculty participants to surface and explore some key challenges in their own work as a teacher educator. As a faculty participant, you will be in conversation with Dr. Hammerness, who will be sharing her own experiences related to changing her practice, and together we will be considering connections to international research on teacher learning and teacher education.

Aim: This seminar is designed to:

• Surface/discuss key challenges in your own work as a teacher educator and in your program
• Explore connections between these challenges and the relationship to international research, and the experiences of other teacher educators
• Identify 1-2 “high leverage” strategies that could be useful in making some changes or shifts, drawing on the experiences and learnings of others also involved in reform

The seminar will draw upon research from a new book recently published by Teachers College Press, Transforming Teacher Preparation Across Nations: Principles travel, context matters (2025). In the seminar we will discuss two international ‘cases’ of teacher education reform (in Norway and Hungary) featured in this new volume, in relationship to the principles for strong teacher education discussed in the volume. Dr. Hammerness, an expert in the reform of teacher education, will supplement discussion with examples from her own experiences of efforts to strengthen and reform programs (and her own practice) at Stanford University, Bard College and the American Museum of Natural History, United States. She will share how some of the persistent challenges of teacher education have surfaced over the years in her own classes as a teacher educator, focusing on how she has altered her courses and teaching as well as how she and her colleagues have made changes in the curriculum of their program over time to respond to challenges.

How will this be designed? This professional seminar draws upon the work of international researchers who have been engaged in sustained cycles of improvement, set in the context of research principles for strong teacher education. As a “case-based seminar” it provides opportunities for reflection and discussion. Together we will focus on what we can learn from international research on program improvement for teacher learning, drawing on a small set of ‘cases’ of teacher education reform.

Preparation and readings are at this link, see overview below:

Readings are the following chapters from Transforming teacher education across nations: Principles travel, context matters. Gerald LeTendre, Ira Lit and Rachel Lotan (Eds). Teachers College Press, 2025. If possible please read all; if not, Chapter 3 or 4 may be most useful:

• Chapter 2 Inquiry into the Stanford Teacher Education Program (iSTEP) Institute: Origins, Design and Evolution (Lit, LeTendre & Lotan)
• Chapter 3 Programmatic coherence and connection between scholarship and practice: Redesigning a Norwegian teacher education program (Klette & Jenset)
• Chapter 4 The Impact of iSTEP on Practice-oriented Teacher Education in Hungary (Nagy)
• Chapter 10 Choosing a ‘High Leverage Problem’ for Improvement: Teacher Education Reform in Five Countries (Hammerness & Matsko)

About Dr. Karen Hammerness

Dr. Karen Hammerness, Senior Educational Research Director at the American Museum of Natural History, is a Fulbright Specialist at the School of Education, University of Iceland, this spring. Her research focuses upon the design and pedagogy of teacher education in the United States and internationally. Her books include Empowered Educators in Finland: How high-performing systems shape teaching quality (2017); Inspiring Teaching; and Preparing teachers to succeed in mission-driven schools (Harvard Education Press, 2014). She has contributed chapters about teacher education to a number of books, including Teacher Education around the World: Changing Policies and Practices (Routledge, 2012) and Preparing Teachers for a Changing World (Jossey-Bass, 2005). Her latest book Preparing Science Teachers Through Practice-Based Education (Harvard Education Press, 2020) is a volume about preparing teachers for equitable teaching practices so that students’ ideas drive teaching.