Leveraging the Power of a Community of Practice to Improve Teaching and Learning about the Earth

Autor/inn/en	Kastens, Kim; Manduca, Cathryn
Titel	Leveraging the Power of a Community of Practice to Improve Teaching and Learning about the Earth
Quelle	In: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 49 (2017) 6, S.14-22 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-1383
DOI	10.1080/00091383.2017.1398997
Schlagwörter	Communities of Practice; Feedback (Response); Instructional Improvement; Undergraduate Students; College Faculty; Systems Approach; Teacher Collaboration; Earth Science; Geology; Collegiality; Science Instruction; Science Teachers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community; Unterrichtsqualität; Fakultät; Systemischer Ansatz; Lehrerkooperation; Earth sciences; Geowissenschaften; Historische Geologie; Kollegialität; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende
Abstract	Faculty Communities of Practice (CoP) have been promoted as a way to improve education in both K-12 and higher education. Over the last two decades, faculty who teach undergraduate geoscience in the United States have built a thriving nationwide community of practice, characterized by individual learning, supportive colleagues, group accomplishments, and effective infrastructure. This article describes one such thriving community, the U.S. geoscience education community of practice (GeoEd CoP). The authors share observations and hypotheses about what makes the GeoEd CoP work and propose an explanatory model in which interconnected reinforcing feedback loops move the CoP toward higher levels of capacity and accomplishment. The authors also share lessons learned and ideas about what it would take to replicate this success in other domains and disciplines. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01