Burns, AmyDanyluk, Patricia2016-05-132016-05-132016-05Burns, A., & Danyluk, P. (2016, May). Learning to Teach on a Construction Site: Applying Kolb's Model to the Student Teaching Practicum. In M. Takeuchi, A.P. Preciado Babb, & J. Lock. IDEAS 2016: Designing for Innovation Selected Proceedings. Paper presented at IDEAS 2016: Designing for Innovation, Calgary, Canada (pg 61-70). Calgary, Canada: Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary.978-0-88953-390-5http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51210This study examines the pre-professional development of two pre-service teachers during a non-traditional student teaching placement on a housing construction site. The findings are analyzed from the perspective of Kolb’s (1984) model and examined against the Teaching Effectiveness Framework by Friesen (2009) to outline a powerful opportunity for field-based teacher education. Initial findings point to an enriched pre-service teaching environment that provided the opportunity to create rich inquiry based interdisciplinary lessons related to the building project, the potential to build pre-service teacher conversational and workplace skills through interaction with community stakeholders and the opportunity to develop competencies in peer feedback and collaboration.enPre-servicePlacementExperientialConstructionunknown10.11575/PRISM/5263