Community of Practice
What is a Community of Practice?
Teachers are busy people, and those working and living in regional and remote Australia often work on their own with little opportunity to confer with colleagues. Part of developing professionally involves coming together with one's colleagues, discussing ideas, problems issues and reflecting on practice.
A community of practice is a group of people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a joint enterprise.[1] They are not new phenomena as this type of learning practice has existed for as long as people have been learning and sharing their experiences.
Today, technology makes it easier to bring people together and professionally based online Communities of Practice provide the potential for teachers to link with each other and to access ongoing professional learning. An integral part of the STEMCrAfT project is providing opportunities for teachers of STEM to work together, to share ideas, experience and solutions. This is achieved by holding face-to-face workshops, maintaining contact through email newsletters and using this website as a repository for webinars on STEM related subjects and for hosting the STEMCrAfT CoP.
The STEM online Community of Practice aims to engage STEM teachers with one another and to provide a place where they can seek advice, offer expertise and exchange ideas concerning the teaching of STEM and how to do it better, smarter, differently.
Any Community of Practice relies on the input of its’ members, so, if you have a query, or want to share a STEM teaching and learning experience or resource, why not ask or share it with your colleagues through this CoP?.
The STEMCrAfT Project CoP includes both experienced and less experienced teachers of STEM, members of the UTAS School of Education, the UTAS Centre for University Pathways and Programs, the National Centre for Maritime Engineering and Hydrodynamics, the Australian Maritime College, Deakin, Edith Cowan, Southern Cross Universities and the University of South Australia as well as professional associations and industry bodies.
Click the 'Community of Practice' tab to contribute.
[1] Wenger and Snyder Communities of Practice: The Organisational Frontier http://mirror.omadata.com/onno/library-sw-hw/digital-library/gdl40/papers/communities%20of%20practice1.pdf
Teachers are busy people, and those working and living in regional and remote Australia often work on their own with little opportunity to confer with colleagues. Part of developing professionally involves coming together with one's colleagues, discussing ideas, problems issues and reflecting on practice.
A community of practice is a group of people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a joint enterprise.[1] They are not new phenomena as this type of learning practice has existed for as long as people have been learning and sharing their experiences.
Today, technology makes it easier to bring people together and professionally based online Communities of Practice provide the potential for teachers to link with each other and to access ongoing professional learning. An integral part of the STEMCrAfT project is providing opportunities for teachers of STEM to work together, to share ideas, experience and solutions. This is achieved by holding face-to-face workshops, maintaining contact through email newsletters and using this website as a repository for webinars on STEM related subjects and for hosting the STEMCrAfT CoP.
The STEM online Community of Practice aims to engage STEM teachers with one another and to provide a place where they can seek advice, offer expertise and exchange ideas concerning the teaching of STEM and how to do it better, smarter, differently.
Any Community of Practice relies on the input of its’ members, so, if you have a query, or want to share a STEM teaching and learning experience or resource, why not ask or share it with your colleagues through this CoP?.
The STEMCrAfT Project CoP includes both experienced and less experienced teachers of STEM, members of the UTAS School of Education, the UTAS Centre for University Pathways and Programs, the National Centre for Maritime Engineering and Hydrodynamics, the Australian Maritime College, Deakin, Edith Cowan, Southern Cross Universities and the University of South Australia as well as professional associations and industry bodies.
Click the 'Community of Practice' tab to contribute.
[1] Wenger and Snyder Communities of Practice: The Organisational Frontier http://mirror.omadata.com/onno/library-sw-hw/digital-library/gdl40/papers/communities%20of%20practice1.pdf