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Description
Case-based learning has been used in teacher education to provide teachers with risk-free contexts to speculate upon alternative solutions to the problems that could happen in the real classrooms. However, most studies about using case-based approach in teacher education focus on utilizing prescribed case stories to augment pre-service teachers’ professional learning. Few studies invite college instructors to write their own case stories as a learning activity for teacher professional development and investigate its effectiveness. Adjunct faculty has limited opportunities to share research, teaching experience, and instructional challenges with colleagues because of their scattered teaching periods and multiple instructional venues. This proposal purports to investigate whether and how the Hybrid Case-based Learning (HCL) model can help leverage adjunct faculty’s professional learning. HCL model, as an approach of teacher professional development, combines individual autobiographical writing and case method learning in a group. The autobiographical writing provides faculty with a reflective writing template to author individual case stories based on their experience. After the teacher members complete their writing, the stories are sources for teachers to share with their colleagues for comments and discussions in case method learning part. Such a hybrid learning helps instructors reflect upon, question, and learn from their and other teachers’ storied experiences. Therefore, this study aims to recruit a team of four English as a Foreign Language (EFL) adjunct instructors and implement HCL in the team for one academic year. In addition to the participants’ discussion, focus group interview will also be conducted to understand the adjunct faculty’s perceptions of the HCL. For data analysis, the thematic analysis will be adopted to analyze the participants’ comments on each other’s case story, discussions, and interviews.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 8/1/20 → 7/31/21 |
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