Chrysostomou, S., & Triantafyllaki, A. (2020). Transitioning to online music teacher education: Challenges and opportunities for knowledge development. In R. E. Ferdig, E. Baumgartner, R. Hartshore, R. Kaplan-Rakowski, & C. Mouza (Eds.), Teaching, technology and teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stories from the field (pp. 443-447). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/216903/
Abstract:
“The context of this article is a non-compulsory pre-service teacher education program, fully incorporated within a five-year Bachelor of Arts Music degree in Athens, Greece. On March 11th 2020, when schools closed, the majority of our forty-three students on the program had completed less than half of the requirements of the thirty-hour teaching placement. A series of steps ensued that included mapping students’ progress to-date, strengthening our collaboration with our team of teacher-mentors that continued to teach online, finding online alternatives for observing teaching, creating new teaching material to encourage students to re-imagine music teaching and learning online and, inevitably, shifting assessment requirements to accommodate the novel circumstances. While still at the beginning of our journey, this online transition for the teaching placement has presented both opportunities and challenges for developing new and desired forms of teacher knowledge.”