Effective Teacher Talk
Event
Supporting effective teacher talk about lessons
Monday 24 February, 2025 – Monday 24 February, 202512:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Online (via Microsoft Teams)
Part of the School of Education Research Seminar Series 2024-25.
About the seminar
Student teachers can learn a great deal from discussing their lessons with mentor teachers. In this seminar, Professor Rusznyak draws on data from a South African study and uses tools from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) to discuss the ways in which mentoring conversations support effective student teacher learning.
Speakers
Lee Rusznyak is a senior professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her research focuses on preparing student teachers for classroom practice and she directed the development of the South African Professional Teaching Standards that are used to accredit teacher development courses.
She currently steers a national project that has prepared more than 70,000 student teachers for school-based learning over the past four years.