The document discusses a new partnership between universities in Oslo and Tromsø to establish Norway's first Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education. The Centre aims to develop teacher education through integrated study designs, university schools, digital learning environments, and leadership. It outlines Norway's new national curriculum calling for closer integration of pedagogy, subject didactics, and practice. The partnership will develop student teaching practice through "intensive practicums" in university schools and research collaborations between schools and the teacher education programs.

1. Tove S. Hunskaar & Kirsti Engelien
University Schools as a means to develop
Teacher Education – a new form of Partnership
Centre for Professional Learning in Teacher Education
- Norway's first Centre of Excellence in Education
Department of Teacher Education and School Research,
Faculty of Education, University of Oslo

2. The Centre is a joint venture between the Universities in Oslo
and Tromsø, and is headquartered at the Department of
Teacher Education and School Research at The Faculty of
Educational Sciences, University of Oslo

3. WP5
Integrated study
designs
WP 1
Knowledge
practices in
academic
courses
WP 2
University
schools
WP 3
Digital learning
environments
WP 4
Leadership &
Implementation

4. Our Teacher Education programmes
• 5 year Master of Education programme
– Collaboration between 5 faculties
– 48 different options
• 1 year Teacher Education programme
– Full time and part time program (1,5)
– Teach First Norway

5. 2013: New National Curriculum
It gives a detailed description of student learning
outcome (knowledge, skills and competence)
It calls for a closer integration between different subject
areas (pedagogy, subject didactics) and the learning
activities on and off campus

6. A new subject integrates the
professional disciplines
Pedagogy
Subject
didactics
Practice
Our vision: Teachers as Professional Learners

7. A new study design
• Each course has learning outcome descriptions that
integrates pedagogy, subject didactics and practice
• Each course has integrated exam assignments - the
students are required to apply theory from both
pedagogy and their subject didactic literature, as well
as their experiences from their training in the schools
when they discuss their research questions

8. University Schools
2009 – 2012 – 2015

9. The University of Oslo has established a
special partnership with 20 University Schools.
These schools have applied to become
university schools based on a set of criteria
defining schools that can document excellence
concerning research and development

10. Criteria for becoming a University School
• Pioneers of professional learning
• Systematic approaches to R&D work
• Established Mentor programmes – for
students and new teachers
• Willingness to contribute in
developing teacher education
programmes

11. The committee:
• Students
• Municipalities
• Representatives from other collaborating
faculties
• Representative from the Department of
Teacher Education
• ProTed – Centre of Excellence in Teacher
Education

12. Student Teacher
School Mentor Teacher Educator

13. The partnership agreement:
1. Developing student teaching practice
– “Intensive practicum”
2. Research and development in the schools
– A collaborative math project
3. Developing integrated study design for
teacher education
– Dialogue seminars

15. Zeichner: THIRD SPACES
• THE IDEA OF THIRD SPACE COMES FROM
HYBRIDITY THEORY WHICH RECOGNIZES
THAT INDIVIDUALS DRAW ON MULTIPLE
DISCOURSES TO MAKE SENSE OF THE
WORLD.
• THIRD SPACE INVOLVES A REJECTION OF
BINARIES SUCH AS PRACTITIONER AND
ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE, AND THEORY AND
PRACTICE.
• THIRD SPACE CAN INVOLVE THE
INTEGRATION OF WHAT ARE OFTEN SEEN
AS COMPETING DISCOURSES IN NEW WAYS
(EITHER/OR VS BOTH AND ALSO).

16. Dialogue seminars -
a third space?
School Mentor
Student Teacher
Teacher Educator

17. Lillejord, S. & Børte, K. (2014) Partnerskap i lærerutdanningen – en
forskningskartlegging – KSU 3/2014 page 22.
The Knowledge Centre for Education

18. A change in perspective

19. Virtual Collaboration for Teacher Education –
A collaboration between ProTed, Stanford,
Sweden, Chile, Brasil and South-Africa (and Canada?)
ViCoTEd

20. Contact information
Tove S. Hunskaar Kirsti Engelien
k.l.engelien@ils.uio.no
@kirstiengelien
t.s.hunskaar@ils.uio.no
ProTed – Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education