Clare Kosnik

Biography

Clare Kosnik is Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT) and the Director of the Jackman Institute of Child Studies. She teaches in the graduate program courses on teacher education and literacy methods courses in the Master of Teaching pre-service program. Professor Kosnik has held a number of leadership positions: Director of the Master of Teaching program, Head of the Centre for Teacher Education and Development, Director of the Elementary Preservice Program, and Coordinator of the Mid-Town Cohort. In 2003, she took a three-year leave of absence from OISE/UT to be Executive Director of the Teachers for a New Era research and development project at Stanford University, one of the largest initiatives in teacher education. Along with Clive Beck she has been conducting a longitudinal study of teachers: 20 who are completing their tenth year of teaching and 22 who are completing their eighth year of teaching. Findings from this study are reported in: Growing as a Teacher: Goals and Pathways of Ongoing Teacher Learning and Priorities in Teacher Education (co-authored with Clive Beck). She is also the principal investigator of a large-scale study which is looking at the 28 literacy/English from four countries: Canada, US, England, and Australia. She recently co-edited the text Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Student Teachers for a Changing World.

Research Interest

Applied Psychology and Human Development Curriculum, Teaching and Learning