Faculty-driven Communities of Practice: Implications for Inclusive Mentoring (ASTE)

PTF Shelly Rodriguez co-presented a round table session at the Association of Science Teacher Education International Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana in January 2024. The conference welcomes over 500 Association members and students each year, and includes dozens of papers, poster sessions, round tables, plenary sessions, and interactive workshops.

View the session proposal here, or read an introduction excerpt below.

This round table proposal describes two models of faculty-driven CoPs led by members of ASTE: one in a natural sciences college within a large Research 1 university in the southern United States and one in a college of education at a regional comprehensive university in the southeastern United States. The session will discuss the origins, design, and initial reception of each program. We will reflect on mediated-design as a framework that values distributed expertise and promotes equity and inclusivity in professional learning. Finally, we will engage participants in a discussion of faculty-driven CoP’s as a mentoring model for the ASTE membership.

_{Rodriguez, S.R. & Wilson, R. (2024, January) Faculty-driven Communities of Practice: Implications for inclusive mentoring. Round table presented at The Association of Science Teacher Education Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.}