Learning to Teach Outside the Box: Exploring Newness in Literacies Pedagogies in a Pandemic

This article explores the innovative lesson planning assignments of preservice teacher, Marie, as part an alternate teaching practicum during pandemic closure schools in Spring 2020. Marie viewed this shift context opportunity to “think outside box”, be creative and divert from a traditional template. As we read examples Marie’s plan assignments, think with posthumanist theories entanglement, intra-actions producing newness literacies pedagogies. We share data that show entanglements more-than-humans humans within format. In exploring redesigns her reflections on them, consider ways these pedagogies were produced through assignment criteria, provincial curricula, knowledge students, families, available learning materials, conditions. how implications format contribute our thinking doing teacher educators literacies.