Intro – Outro. Professional Development for Newly Qualified Teachers and Preservice Teachers (finishing Year) in Collaboration in Learning Circles

A learning circle is a group consisting of different participants with different experiences, interests, prerequisites and intentions.
In a learning circle, collective knowledge development takes place. One examines, describes and analyzes challenges from their own teaching practice, that the participants find urgent and relevant.
In the circle, the participants try to understand and analyze these challenges through interaction and collaboration, and thereby achieve deeper insights into these challenges, as well as developing possible new actions to change the teaching practice.
The project’s intention is to develop and test learning circles, comprising of both 4th yr preservice teachers and newly qualified teachers (NQT), as a method to ease the transition from teacher education to the teaching profession by strengthen the connection between theoretical and practical knowledge, and develop professionality in teaching, for thereby to provide greater opportunity for establishing foothold in the profession.