ERIC Number: EJ1330466
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 20
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Cultivating Catholic Classroom Communities during Remote Teaching
Beltramo, John L.; Layam, Krizia; Lucas, Julia; Schmitt, John
Journal of Catholic Education, v24 n2 Article 3 p43-61 Fall 2021
In this COVID-era study, Catholic school teachers report the challenges that they experienced in supporting classroom communities during remote instruction, as well as the strategies that they enacted to address such challenges and make robust relationships with and among remote students. While teachers engaged in remote teaching, they were also studying in a Catholic Master of Arts in Teaching program, where they participated in weekly Freirian culture circles -- structured dialogues designed to help teachers identify problems of equity and collectively devise appropriate responses. The teachers found that classroom community was hindered by a lack of in-person affordances, socioemotional stressors related to the pandemic, struggles to engage students, and structures of hybrid teaching. In response, teachers used the culture circles to create and/or share strategies for supporting remote classroom communities, such as classroom meetings and smallgroup collaboration. Teachers recognized that efforts to develop classroom communities were intimately connected to commitments to equity.
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators, Communities of Practice, Masters Programs, Teacher Education Programs, Equal Education, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers, Distance Education, Peer Relationship, Dialogs (Language), Problem Solving, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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