Odyssey in the Azores: A U.S. travel-study course preparing teachers for the magic of the profession

Metaphoric Drawing of the Transition Into Teaching: What Preservice Teachers Reveal About Their Online Teaching Persona and Self-Efficacy?

“…Deficit profiles might have consequences with regard to specific interventions. Haines, Strolin-Goltzman, and Dinis (2021) described the design and outcomes of a communityengaged, service-learning, travel study course that used digital storytelling and structured critical reflection. The course, which was influenced by the pedagogy of discomfort, became an odyssey experience for undergraduate students, who embraced the challenges of ambiguity and navigated communication barriers to form appreciative relationships with fourth graders from an economically depressed yet relationship-rich fishing village in the Azores.…”

“…Contemporary studies suggest that creative teaching, even online, is important for young students' overall learning and development, yet the concept and its implications are still ambiguous for many educational practitioners. In the qualitative phenomenological study, Haines, Strolin-Goltzman, and Dinis (2021) addressed this ambiguity by examining pre-service teachers' perceptions of the concept; they examined how participants with a shared experience perceive creativity and creative teaching, through the lens of their interpretation of their own teaching. After reviewing everyday creativity as a working concept, they explored participants' oral and written accounts as gathered through interviews and questionnaires.…”