Poster 8:

Communities of Practice Supporting Pre-Service Art Teachers

Veronica Soria-Martinez University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA

The CoP meets monthly around a preestablished topic, and has the Visual Arts Education Methods classes as the anchoring space for the meetings. All teachers in the region are invited. For this, we partnered with the Wisconsin Art Educators Association (WAEA). For each topic, one or two teachers are invited as presenters, although discussion is encouraged, promoting formats that elicit participation. The topics seek to clarify situations that emerge from practice…