Observing from a distance: Insights for conducting effective field-based observations in online courses
Katherine Landau Wright, Ph.D., College of Education
About the project
The move to online learning has led to challenges for students in teacher preparation programs who are required to undergo observation and receive feedback from their supervisors. In this project, Dr. Wright and her colleagues attempted to address the struggles students face when recording and uploading their teaching demonstrations in order to receive effective feedback. The study attempted to address the technological problems students faced as well as reevaluate the most effective methods of feedback that supervisors should use to help their student teachers learn.
About the author
Dr. Katherine Landau Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literacy, Language and Culture at Boise State University, and director of the Boise State University Literacy Lab. She started in 2016 after completing her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at Texas A&M University. Her dissertation research, funded by the International Literacy Association’s Steven A. Stahl Research Grant, developed writing-to-learn practices for middle and high school classes and won the Association of Literacy Educators and Researcher’s 2016 Dissertation Award. She has published in educational research journals (e.g., International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education; Journal of Curriculum & Instruction) as well as pieces for science and literacy practitioners (i.e., The Reading Teacher; The Science Teacher). She serves as a reviewer for Literacy Research and Instruction. Prior to entering academia, she was a middle school English and Social Studies teacher. Her experiences working with both native speaking and language-learning students in the classroom motivate her research focused on developing strategies for engaging and supporting middle and high school readers and writers.