My name is Pat Murphy and I teach the
Entered Fieldwork Practicum. Because we are teaching
teachers how to teach, we really need to
incorporate all of the engagements, so
our online courses, we use Canvas and the discussion boards to create walkthroughs.
So the teachers present information
about their classrooms. They share
pictures. They're actually sharing
specific information regarding that
classroom, so it could be if we're
working on classroom environment, they'll
show pictures of the classwork, video of
their students doing acting-out lessons
and things like that, and then through
discussion board they collaborate. They
talk to each other, they critique they
ask questions, and then we also do Zoom,
where we meet together and we have
cohorts. Rather, it's looking at
their videos and then critiquing them,
annotating the videos, and finding out
exact areas of need. The interns will
tell us what they need and show us. I
think for the interns that I work with,
it provides a great platform because
they're working--so they're
teaching during the day, they're taking
classes at night and they have a life,
and so the online platform really
supports the timeframe. So we've been
really successful with the online format.
