“Enlarging the Space of the Possible”: (Re)Imagining Teacher Preparation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The authors of this paper, under the guidance of Deborah Seltzer-Kelly, have produced an article full of fine problematics, that is, of issues with which to wrestle, all built around reimagining teacher preparation and asking us to engage with the concept so as to "provide a space of the possible" (Osberg, in Seltzer-Kelly et al.). For me the title provides much to play with: "(Re)Imagining Teacher Preparation for Conjoint Democratic Inquiry in Complex Classroom Ecologies." Here, I would re-imagine or reimage teacher-preparation; play with John Dewey's use of con-joint, rather than joint; or his notion of democracy, not so much a form of government, as a way of life, or his emphasis on inquiry as pragmatism's logic. All this I would envelop in the complexity of complex classrooms, especially those having their own ecology, a Batesonian idea. Moving beyond playing with--an instructional device Gregory
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".