Remote Teacher Preparation Amidst COVID-19: Creating Trauma-Informed Communities of Inquiry

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic. As a result, teacher preparation programs faced an immediate shift from face-to-face instruction and field experiences to virtual learning with little lead time. This chapter presents a trauma-informed community of inquiry (CoI) framework with a specific focus on teacher preparation. It offers insights for course revision, pedagogy and instruction, and interactions with students during these unprecedented times through examining implementation and collaboration efforts within two programs.