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Video Inquiry connects teachers across Alaska: ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

By Lisa Richardson and Cathy Coulter
Categories: Collaboration, Data, Learning communities, Technology
April 2024
Teacher collaboration across Alaska, an area 2½ times larger than Texas, is no small feat. Thanks to the advent of new technologies, engaging in inquiry cycles is now possible between educators across a broad geographical span and between settings that range from diverse urban classrooms to multigrade classrooms in remote villages, to homogenous Indigenous populations in Alaska Native villages. In the Reading Specialist M.Ed. program at the University of Alaska Southeast and the Language and Literacy graduate certificate program at the University of Alaska Anchorage, inservice teachers use video to study and refine their teaching practice through cycles of collaborative inquiry. These cycles consider teachers’ unique contexts, communities, and student populations. By engaging in inquiry, teachers can take ownership of their learning by selecting specific

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References

Baecher, L. (2020). Video in teacher learning. Corwin Press.

Rex, L.A. & Schiller, L. (2009). Using discourse analysis to improve classroom interaction. Routledge.

Van Es & Sherin (2002). Learning to notice: Scaffolding new teachers’ interpretations of classroom interactions. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 10(4), 571-596.


Lisa Richardson
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Lisa Richardson (lrichardson3@alaska.edu) is coordinator of the Reading Specialist Program at the University of Alaska Southeast.

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Cathy Coulter (cacoulter@alaska.edu) is coordinator of the language and literacy program at the University of Alaska Anchorage.


Categories: Collaboration, Data, Learning communities, Technology

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