Teacher educators interested in empowering future teachers to teach for social justice are being invited to apply to the Transformative Teacher-Educator Program (TTEP).
“I developed the fellowship to provide a space and opportunity for teacher educators to come together to really think about how we need to change teacher education to better empower future teachers to teach for social justice,” said Kira Baker-Doyle, the Rosemary and Walter Blankley associate professor of education at Arcadia University, TTEP director and author of “Transformative Teachers: Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World” and “The Networked Teacher: How New Teachers Build Social Networks for Professional Support.”
“Today, pre-service teachers are taught how to teach, and what to teach, yet they are rarely taught how to connect, organize, and build the social supports they need to teach innovatively and seek equity for their students,” she said. “So, the program aims to build that strand into teacher education on the whole.”