Dr. Saroja Warner, Senior Director of Culturally Responsive and Equitable Systems at WestEd, and Dr. Maria Hyler, Director of the Learning Policy Institute Washington, D.C. office, will present at the International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET) 65th World Assembly held June 13–15, 2024, at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal.
This year’s conference theme is Enhancing the Teaching Profession Through Quality Teacher Education: Purpose, Policy and Practice in Times of Teacher Shortage.
The 65th World Assembly 2024 will focus on the teacher profession and on teacher education at a time when global teacher workforce challenges are top of mind. The conference offers a platform for the scholars from around the world to present and discuss research on teacher education and teacher professionalism.
June 13, 2024
Culturally Sustaining and Responsive Teacher Preparation Practices
Description: Over the last several decades, we have learned a great deal about how people learn and develop from research in neuroscience, the developmental and learning sciences, and fields like anthropology, sociology, and social psychology. Recent syntheses of this research and its implications for educational practice, published in a series of articles in Applied Developmental Science, as well as recent syntheses of advances in the learning sciences, have pointed to important transformations in teaching practice needed to ensure that children experience the secure relationships, skillful teaching, rich curriculum, helpful assessments, and personalized supports that will enable healthy development and successful lives in and out of school. In this presentation presenters will share a framework that outlines how teacher preparation can best be organized to support teacher learning of these concepts and an example of how this research is being applied in one state in the United States to support culturally responsive teacher and leader preparation.
Presenters
Dr. Warner is committed to ensuring each child experiences teaching and learning in classrooms and schools that are led by educators who are racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse and are culturally responsive.
Dr. Maria Hyler serves as the Director of the Learning Policy Institute’s Washington, DC office. She directs the Educator Preparation Laboratory (EdPrepLab) in partnership with Bank Street Graduate School of Education. EdPrepLab is a center on teacher and leader preparation for deeper learning and equity working to transform educator preparation through the alignment of research, practice, and policy.