Trepartssamtalet, dvs ett samtal mellan kurslärare, student och VFU-handledare, är en central del i den verksamhetsförlagda utbildningen (VFU), och dessutom ett av få tillfällen i hela lärarutbildningen där campus, student och skola möts. Studenterna lyfter fram trepartssamtalet i kursutvärderingar som ett av de viktigaste inslagen under utbildningen. Men trepartssamtalet är också kostsamt på olika sätt. Det kostar i tid att resa ut till skolorna och det behövs också många lärare att bemanna dem. Det är därför viktigt att utveckla och utforska olika former för samtal i VFU som inte är en ren minskning av kvalitet, utan kan vara en form som gynnar studenternas lärande.

Projektet omfattar två delstudier där I) studerar digitala trepartssamtal och II) studerar trepartssamtal i grupp. Delprojekt I) är en erfarenhetsbaserad studie där vi jämför våra resultat med till exempel Karlstads universitet som har lärarutbildning (och därmed trepartssamtal) på distans (Johansson och Johansson, 2018). Delprojekt II) innebär trepartssamtal med studentpar, och genomförs som en möjlig aktivitet inom klustren i den nya VFU-organisationen. Studier har visat att studenter som gör VFU i par eller grupp har möjlighet att genom gemensam planering och gemensamma reflektioner hitta kopplingar mellan den egna undervisningen och innehållet i de lästa kurserna (Cavanagh & McMaster, 2015; Manuchechrie, 2002). Delprojekt II sker också i samverkan med VFU-kursansvariga vid institutionerna HSD och ISD.

Under paneldiskussionen kommer vi presentera resultaten i de olika delprojekten, vad vi har lärt oss och vilka utmaningar som vi kan ställas inför, till exempel:

•Tekniska krav och hantering av GDPR

•Krav på stödstrukturer, till exempel digitala verktyg, gott samarbete med VFU-sekretariatet för placeringar och med lärare i övriga kurser

•Pedagogiska anpassningar av kursuppgifter och rutiner för samtalet

•Studenters och lärares engagemang och medverkan i projektet

•Att både få komma tillbaka till engagerade handledare, och att skala upp erfarenheter till att omfatta fler utbildningar

In this paper we present experiences from a joint collaborative research project which may be described as an encounter between a school science teaching practice and a university science didactics research practice. We provide narratives which demonstrate how the encounter between these two communities of practice interacted to produce hybridization between the two in terms of mutual influences, resulting in the conceptual and practical development of both communities of practice. We argue that what happened in the project suggests one way of reducing the gap between educational research and teaching through the emergence of practices where the roles of teachers and researchers become blurred.

During the last years the didactical model organizing purposes has provided important insights about how teachers work with moment-to-moment learning progressions in science teaching. In the present study, organizing purposes were used to plan a lesson within a context-based unit in Biology, in which the Ebola disease was the overarching context. The lesson was planned in two parts. In the first part, the students worked with a model that simulated the spread of Ebola; in the second part, the model was discussed and compared with the real disease. The analysis of the enacted lesson shows that the students’ experiences from the model were effectively used by the teacher to establish a learning progression towards the learning goals. This was done by eliciting questions, comparisons between the model and real diseases, and recalling specific situations that allowed students to use everyday experiences and scientific concepts. Moreover, by maintaining focus in the context of the unit, the teacher through these actions, constantly directed the lesson towards the learning goals.

In this presentation we show how the usefulness and value of a theoretical framework for planning, assessing, and modifying teaching were noticed by teachers in a science teacher professional development project.  The framework, called organizing purposes (Johansson & Wickman, 2011, Wickman & Ligozat, 2010), was introduced by the researchers at the beginning of two-year collaboration.  Data for this presentation comes from two cycles of teaching of a unit on the chemistry of food and human nutrition. We made video recordings of planning meetings between researchers and teachers, classroom teaching, and teachers’ reflections at the end of the cycle.  One of the teachers was interviewed two years after the end of the project. We used Clarke and Hollingsworth’s interconnected model of teacher professional growth to analyze how change in the domain of consequence (salient outcomes) was realized during the collaboration. Change in the domain of consequence, observed through the salient outcomes noticed by the teachers, occurred through the following sequence: (1) anticipation of particular benefits of the framework as a resource for assessing and modifying teaching, (2) recognition of actual student behavior i.e. a dramatic increase of student participation in the equivalent lesson of the second cycle, and (3) reflection on the framework’s role in one’s own practice. It may be significant that the first salient outcome that the teachers noticed was a consequence of the researchers using the framework to suggest concrete changes in teaching for cycle 2. Implications of this feature, and the observed sequence in general, will be discussed at the presentation.