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The fourth and upcoming QUINT Conference “Teaching Quality & Teacher-Researcher Collaboration: Opportunities, Obstacles & Orientations” aims to bring together early career researchers and the world-leading scholars to explore ways to strengthen teacher-researcher collaboration within the area of teaching quality relevant to improve teacher education and teachers’ continuous learning. With the goal of improving teaching quality, high quality teacher education and professional development is decisive.
Research on how to improve teaching – both in teacher education and through professional development – is increasingly agreeing on some quality indicators for programme design and pedagogies for teacher learning. However, the field has also been described as sprawling and contested, constituting different theoretical and methodological lenses, and focusing on teacher education and teachers’ professional development from within or from the outside. The lack of a common conceptual language within the field is steadily pointed to, as well as the lack of longitudinal and large-scale studies in the field. This conference in Helsinki seeks to summarise how contemporary discussions on teaching quality are recognised and made relevant for teachers and teacher candidates. Questions to discuss:
- The role of observation manuals in teacher learning and teacher education
- Teacher observation and teacher feedback
- Videos and other representations from classrooms
- Good versus “effective” teaching
In this fourth QUINT conference, we address all of the above issues. Conference papers will be on a broad variety of issues related to teaching quality, especially targeting (implications for) teacher education, teachers’ professional development and teacher researcher collaboration. Scholars within the QUINT centre have worked targeted on systematic use of videos of teaching as a pedagogy in teacher education and professional development, and we thus especially welcome papers targeting these issues.
The conference has the format where the two first days are devoted to the keynotes and paper session devoted to PhD fellows (QIUNT PhD Summer Institute), followed by the main conference with keynote sessions, parallel paper sessions, workshops, panel debates, and other academic events.
Registration (Deadline: 18 April 2023)