Beyond Foundations: Practice-Based Pedagogies Deep Dive
Beyond Foundations: Practice-Based Pedagogies Deep Dive
Already have some experience with practice-based teacher education and looking to keep growing your skills? Join us for this one-and-a-half-day in-person event geared to teacher educators interested in continuing to develop skill with practice-based pedagogies. We will build on the Foundations of Practice-Based Teacher Education Workshop by digging more deeply into several powerful pedagogies of teacher education, including using videos and transcripts to introduce and help teacher candidates practice practice. Together, we’ll explore the following questions:
How can I identify or develop videos and transcripts of classroom teaching that will help me prepare teacher candidates to enact high-leverage practices and manage common classroom challenges?
What forms of simulations can I use besides rehearsal, and what is involved in designing and facilitating them?
Each day, participants will view and discuss examples of practice-based teacher education, and we’ll provide opportunities for workshopping your own designs. Expect engaged conversation about the challenges of preparing novice teachers for practice, and plenty of resource-sharing.
Designed For:
- Teacher educators
- Deans of education
- State education agency officials
What to expect at Beyond Foundations: Practice-Based Pedagogies Deep Dive:
- An in-depth look at powerful pedagogies of teacher education, including video of the pedagogies in action
- Access to sample lesson plans and other instructional materials
- Opportunities to try creating your own materials, and to receive feedback from the facilitators and other participants
- Time to pose and discuss problems of practice that have arisen in your own teaching
- Regular discussion of the equity implications of practice-based teacher education
Leave the Deep Dive with:
- Tools and Strategies for Making Teaching Learnable: Leave with sample lesson plans and other materials that you can use in your own teaching.
- Your Own New Lesson Plans: Create a new or redesigned instructional activity to carry out in your own teaching.
- Richer Understanding of Professional Challenges: Deepen your appreciation of the challenges endemic to practice-based teacher education, and some approaches to managing them
- A Certificate: Walk away with a digital, printable document that certifies you as a graduate of the Deep Dive and identifies the dates during which you participated.
Connect with us to learn more about attending Beyond Foundations: Practice-Based Pedagogies Deep Dive!
May 14–15, 2026
Enroll by April 27, 2026
Cost: $350
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
This workshop blends informative, facilitator-led sessions with opportunities for participants to examine and discuss examples, try out strategies, and collaborate with others.
A laptop or tablet is required to access digital resources. No other supplies are required.
Prior participation in the Foundations of Practice-Based Teacher Education Workshop is preferred, but other relevant background or experience is also acceptable. Participants should understand the foundational ideas of practice-based teacher education, including the basics of the Learning Cycle, and should be in the process of or planning to use practice-based pedagogies in their own teaching. If you have questions about your preparation for this event, please contact Francesca Forzani at fforzani@umich.edu. Participants may register for both the Foundations Workshop and the Deep Dive in the same week.
TeachingWorks reserves the right to cancel in-person, virtual, or hybrid training or workshops before the start. TeachingWorks staff will notify participants of cancellation via email. Participants will be eligible for a full refund of their registration fee. TeachingWorks will not be held responsible for any expenses incurred due to the cancellation of an event, training, or workshop.
For a full refund (100%), participants must submit a written request to cancel or withdraw 30 days prior to the first day of the event (in-person or virtual). Fifty percent (50%) will be refunded for requests received 15 days prior. No refunds will be issued for requests received within seven (7) business days of the first day of the event or failure to submit the required documentation required for participation.
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