22/10/2020

Carmen Carrillo analyses good practices for online teaching in the context of teacher education

The lecturer from the Faculty of Communication Sciences has led a study on offering teachers evidence-based perspective that will help them adapt more efficiently to online teaching

The study titled “COVID-19 and teacher education: a literature review of online teaching and learning practices”, provides a reference framework for online teaching practices that could impact the teaching-learning process when it comes to teaching education. The European Journal of Teacher Education, which has an impact quartile of Q1, published the article recently in a special edition on COVID-19. 

“The current pandemic has forced many teachers to move all their classroom lessons online in a very short space of time. As such, we believe it is necessary to go one step further than “emergency” online teaching, still predominant in many institutions, and offer evidence-based perspectives that allows teachers to see which teaching practices could have an impact on online learning, and consequently, help them plan and teach their classes more efficiently”, explained Carme Carrillo.
 
In the published analysis, the lecturer states the “need for a pedagogical approach that relies heavily on the social and collaborative components of learning as a starting point, and the need to equip teacher educators with a set of professional competences in which the socio-affective is at its very core”.
 
The study was carried out with the support of Dr Maria Assunçao Flores, researcher in the field of international teacher education and training from the Institute of Education at the University of Minho (Portugal) and former chair of the Board of Directors of the International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET).