Symposium: Tackling the Challenges for Teacher Education in Different Contexts
A one-day symposium on Monday 13th May 2024 at the Department of Education (Seminar Room G/H). Hosted by the Teacher Education & Professional Learning Research Group.

Agenda

10.00 – 10.05 Welcome and Introduction
Dr Katharine Burn (TEPL Coordinator)

10.05 – 10.50 Tackling the challenge of teacher recruitment in the UK
Professor Robert Klassen, University of Oxford

10.50 – 11.15 Tea/Coffee

11.15 – 12.00 The challenge of persisting inequities in teacher education in Pakistan: Interplay of legacy, culture and context
Professor Anjum Halai, Vice Provost, The Aga Khan University, Karachi

12.00 – 12.45 The challenge of being a policy lever: Teacher education in Aotearoa 2024
Dr Fiona Ell, Associate Professor, University of Auckland

12.45 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 2.45 Tackling the challenge of mathematically “underprepared” Grade 8 – 9 teachers in schools serving low income communities in South Africa
Jill Adler, Professor of Mathematics Education
University of the Witwatersrand

2.45 – 3.30 Tacking the Challenge of providing Equitable and Sustainable Education: Empowering Teachers Globally through Comparative Framing & Action Research
Professor Teresa Tatto, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College,
Arizona State University

3.30 – 3.50 Break

3.45 – 4.00 Discussion and possible next steps

In person attendance is open to staff and students of the Education Department. Lunch will be provided for those who have registered using this link by midday on Thursday 8th May: forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=G96VzPWXk0-0uv5ouFLPkWeOxCBmtq5JqbHTHRvjJexUN0tMNjBHV1ZXN001Rjk5RVdHWURNMjVMRy4u

Online attendance is open to all. Please register here to be sent the Teams link: forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=G96VzPWXk0-0uv5ouFLPkWeOxCBmtq5JqbHTHRvjJexUREFBNkNGOUZEOVMyQUQzV0tIS1A4R0I2Ti4u
Date: 13 May 2024, 10:00
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room G/H
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Department of Education
Organiser: Dr Katharine Burn (University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Hannah Freeman, Heather Sherkunov