Professional Development within a Pandemic: Let Us Listen to the Voices of Experience by Dr. Megan Reister et al.

Professional Development within a Pandemic: Let Us Listen to the Voices of Experience by Dr. Megan Reister et al.

In this think piece, Dr. Megan Reister explores connections between the concept of scholar-practitioner and a self-initiated learning community. During the COVID-19 pandemic, professors at six institutions collaborated to provide virtual guest speakers in pre-service and in-service education programs. Pre-pandemic, guest speakers had attended class sessions to help beginning teachers understand how theoretical information is relevant to practice. Social distancing made these valuable in-person presentations impossible, so the participants in this community developed virtual presentations