Event Date: 15th October 2022

Abstract:

In this webinar, we explore a framework for initial teacher education that capitalizes on aspiring teachers’ experience as learners and which positions the teacher of teachers as a mediator of professional learning.

Firmly grounded on a Sociocultural perspective, the ENABLE framework (Díaz Maggioli, 2022) presents a deceptively simple framework that helps aspiring teachers co-construct their professional knowledge, skills and dispositions so as to better serve the language learners they teach. The framework departs from more classical approaches to initial teacher education and provides a reconceptualization of the roles of aspiring teachers, teachers of teachers as well as the whole field.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Gabriel Díaz Maggioli is Academic Advisor to the Institute of Education at Universidad ORT Uruguay, where he also teaches in the graduate programs in Education. He has shared his theory in praxis with colleagues in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

He has been an active member of and contributor to the work of TESOL International Association and IATEFL, for which he was the first Latino President (2019–2023).