Chair:
Zia Tajeddin (Professor of
Applied Linguistics, Tarbiat Modares University)
The main
aims of the SLTE SIG are to contribute to L2 teachers’ professional development
and to heighten research on language teacher education by creating a
professional community for sharing academic knowledge, experiences, ideas, and
achievements.
Teacher
education has become a transdisciplinary field of inquiry with many
long-established and emerging grounds such as teacher identity, reflection,
motivation, autonomy, agency, professional development, cognition, ethics,
assessment literacy, and language awareness. As such, the conceptualization of
teacher education, teacher knowledge base, and teacher instructional practice
should be revisited to keep the field aligned with sociocultural theory,
complex systems approach, globalization, and critical transcultural language
education.
To speed up
this transition to more effective teacher education, the SLTE SIG plans to
pursue its aims, inter alia, by:
1. Creating
a social networking (Telegram channel) to share recent developments in teacher
education (The channel link will be introduced shortly)
2.
Identifying and discussing opportunities for and barriers to teacher education
in the context of Iran in terms of research, teacher education programs and
program implementation, teacher instructional practice, and teacher
professional development in school, institute, and university contexts
3.
Organizing workshops, panel discussions, and speeches focused on aspects of
teacher education
4. Running
short-term teacher education courses for teachers’ professional development in
view of their needs
5.
Introducing new issues of teacher education journals as well as special issues
devoted to teacher education
6.
Introducing new books on teacher education and allowing free access to their
contents
7.
Introducing researchers in teacher education and their main areas of interests
in their personalized words through short audio and video clips
8. Sharing
short speeches by leading teacher education scholars through the SIG Telegram
channel
9.
Introducing national and international conferences and workshops in teacher
education
10. Introducing selected MA and PhD
dissertations focused on teacher education in Iran
11.
Introducing teacher education programs across counties and regions
12. Creating
a venue for teachers to share their narratives, individual and collaborative
reflections, and action research-based insights
We would
like to reach out to all those in academia whose research interest is teacher
education to help us with their thoughts on this SIG, its aims, and the
strategies for achieving these aims.
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