World Federation of Associations for Teacher Education
First Biannual Conference
Teacher Education in a Global Context: Challenges and Opportunities
The first international conference of the WFATE was held at the Hilton Chicago on February 12th and 13th in conjunction with the annual meeting of the U.S. ATE. The theme of the conference was Education in a Global Context: Challenges and Opportunities and featured exciting keynote presentations by Dr. Kay Livingston and Dr. William Speer. The conference was organized around the following strands:
- Preservice education
- Continuing professional development
- ICT and teacher education
- Mobility of staff and students
- The role of teacher education in education for all
- Balancing local and global issues: knowledge, curriculum, professional experiences
- Other global issues in teacher education
The conference included a number of panel and poster sessions and more than 25 papers were presented on topics of interest to international teacher educators.
Proceedings of the Conference:
These papers were peer-refereed and selected for publication on the web-site.
- Teacher Culture and Teacher Change: Insights from a Meta-Theoretical Perspective (PDF file) Maxine Cooper, Lorraine Ling, Joan Stewart
- A “Medical Model” Professional Development School: A Partnership for Teacher Education (PDF file) Juaquita Hargus, Glenda Ballard, Trisha Ballard
- Assessment as Pedagogy: A Means not an End (PDF file) Beverly Norsworthy
- The Importance of Creativity on Our Global Society and in Today’s Educational System (PDF file) Mary Simpson
- Effective Teaching Methods at Higher Education Level (PDF file) Shahida Sajjad
At the end of the conference an invitation was extended to participants to attend the next WFATE conference to be held in Nairobi in 2012. We hope you will join us for this next important conference.