Moderator: Penny Hacker (Auckland University, New Zealand)

Penny has recently completed her PhD using narrative enquiry to investigate how teacher educators construct their identity. She has also participated in a wide range of classroom-based research, together with Rod Ellis and Shaun Loewen, looking at such issues as the relationship between motivation and making an early start in language learning. She recently presented a paper with the tantalising title "'cos there's no training to be a teacher educator, is there?". I wonder how many of us have found we've had to construct our own identities and career paths as teacher educators? And do we share common values and identities, even across the wide range of contexts, institutions and programmes? Is so, how?

November 30th - December 5th
Topic: Using a class-centred framework for organising successful in-service professional development programs