Case 3: Intentionally Teaching Inquiry and the Practitioner Research Conference: One College’s Pds Efforts to Engage Teacher Candidates in And Publicly Share the Results of Deliberate Investigations of Practice

This case highlights one college of education’s journey in engaging in and publicly sharing of the results of deliberate investigations of practice by respective participants (NAPDS Essential #5). Specifically, this case highlights how both teacher preparation programs in the college and their school partners collectively and deliberately emphasized developing teacher candidates’ dispositions toward improving their practice through purposeful teacher inquiry and abilities to effectively utilize the teacher inquiry process. In this case, we describe how the college and school partners advanced this essential practice through the establishment of a college-wide "Practitioner Research Conference” where teacher candidates from multiple teacher preparation programs presented the results of their practice-based inquiries in a professional conference type forum.