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The authors’ self-study examines their integration of concepts from the field of Disability Studies in Education (DSE) into their introductory special education and educational foundations courses in two different accredited teacher preparation programs.
Using narratives and shared dialogues about their curricular deliberations, they explored the barriers and possibilities of bringing critical visions of disability into the dominant teacher education curriculum.
While barriers such as their positioning as contingent faculty and graduate students hindered their adaptation of the “official” curriculum of their programs, they found that such changes afforded important possibilities for justice-oriented teacher preparation.
They discuss their realization of DSE as the “null curriculum” in their programs and the need to break away from the curricular status quo in their courses.
Their conclusions explore how the integration of DSE informed concepts generated unique opportunities for exploring social justice concepts with the next generation of teachers.
Published: 2021
Updated: Apr. 25, 2022
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Dissonance during teacher preparation is commonplace.
Rather than presenting a roadblock, dissonance may be critical for preservice teachers' learning.
This case study examines how to organize teacher education to embrace dissonance through deliberative dialogue.
Findings suggest that scaffolding during dialogues created conditions where participants could engage with peers' perspectives, rethink assumptions, and deepen interpretive power for understanding students’ ideas.
Dialogues encouraged persistence when dissonance threatened to prohibit further sense-making.
By persisting, tensions became productive rather than prohibitive for sense-making.
Findings have implications for the design of teacher preparation experiences and for theorizing about how beginning teachers learn across experiences.
Published: 2022
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022
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Co-teaching is a fieldwork model in teacher education used to describe the shared responsibility of educators engaging in the process of planning, teaching, and reflecting to support student learning.
While research often describes this model between teacher candidates and mentor teachers, this research examined co-teaching between university faculty and teacher candidates.
The research questions included:
(1) How do teacher candidates experience and perceive a co-teaching model with their faculty? and
(2) What elements of teacher candidates’ experiences during co-teaching reflect the cognitive apprenticeship model of learning?
Through this study it was identified that teacher candidates co-teaching with their faculty led to strengthened understanding of integrated STEM education, particularly in STEM content and PCK.
Making thinking visible using cognitive apprenticeship through co-teaching led to teacher candidates developing an understanding of STEM education in their personal teaching practice and building their capacity to become confident and resourceful STEM educators.
Published: 2021
Updated: Jan. 19, 2022
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This study examined how prepared teachers felt when shifting to online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The teachers were graduates of an education preparation program at a small private Midwestern University.
The authors constructed a questionnaire to measure the graduates’ perceptions of preparation in online teaching, as well as their experience of online teaching during the pandemic. The graduates reported the importance of university faculty modeling the use of online tools, effective course management and virtual teaching strategies to preservice teachers, as well as having the opportunity to take a course focused on teaching in virtual contexts.
Such preparation enabled the graduates to successfully transition to online instruction during the pandemic.
Published: 2021
Updated: Nov. 08, 2021
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The current study reports the process by which one of the largest teacher preparation institutions in the Western U.S. assesses teacher candidates’ professional dispositions throughout their teacher preparation programs through the use of a survey developed by the university.
The survey is completed by teacher candidates, mentor teachers, and supervising faculty.
Results were analyzed using a Generalized Estimated Equations Model.
Results indicated a slight increase in mean scores over time and mentor teachers rated students higher than the students rated themselves.
No significant difference in mean scores was found between teacher candidates and supervising faculty.
Reliability and validity of the instrument and results are discussed.
Lastly, implications for the use of the Professional Dispositions Qualities (PDQ) instrument for accreditation purposes are discussed.
Published: 2021
Updated: Oct. 20, 2021
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The data shared in this article is related to several critical incidents that occurred during summer of 2019 during a summer literacy programme where tutors worked with elementary age students in a university literacy centre.
Each incident adds to learning by PSTs on professional behaviour.
The paper will be thematically organised across four critical incidents.
The first two involved conflict between three tutors, broadly.
In one, a student was involved as the tutors engaged in personal conflict.
In the second, the tutors alone were involved, however, the escalation of the situation occurred quite quickly.
In the third narrative, the authors re-story a critical incident that involved the researchers and one of the teacher candidates across multiple moments in the programme.
In the final narrative, model behaviour by two tutors was exhibited when handling mandated reporting.
Published: 2020
Updated: Oct. 14, 2021
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In response to increased accountability demands placed on teacher preparation programs across the US, some programs are using standardized teacher performance assessments, such as edTPA.
A recent mandate for this study’s elementary teacher preparation program is teacher candidates’ successful completion of edTPA for teacher certification.
A case study design explored the experiences and views of multiple stakeholders (instructors, supervisors, administrators, teacher candidates, and cooperating teachers, N = 60) as they engaged in edTPA.
Data were collected via two surveys and individual interviews.
The effects of edTPA were visible across the data in a variety of ways, as stakeholders found the assessment overwhelming, often taking precedence because of its high-stakes nature.
Changes were questioned, as this program was already held in high regard and produced high-quality teachers prepared for urban school contexts.
Analysis of the interview data revealed three themes: Assets of edTPA, edTPA-produced Changes, and Not a Fair Measure.
Published: 2021
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021
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Calls for the renewal of teacher preparation through clinical practice have left many novice teacher educators to learn on the job.
This article reports on the research of two such novices, studying their own practice.
Addressing the need to better understand the approaches teacher educators take to clinically grounding their work, the authors used a hermeneutic approach to naturalistic inquiry to study their use of an inquiry community framework in a teacher preparation clinical setting.
The authors found that within an arc of practitioner inquiry, explicitly teaching guided reflection and professional dialoguing skills within an inquiry community were key teacher educator practices.
They found that an inquiry community approach holds promise as a structure and space for teacher educators to advance teacher preparation toward clinical practice.
Published: 2021
Updated: May. 21, 2021
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This study offers insights into the ways in which beginning elementary teachers do or do not replicate the kinds of classroom management systems used during their own childhood elementary education experiences as a result of what Dan Lortie calls the apprenticeship of observation.
Results of this study indicate that, when designing their classroom management systems, first-year teachers draw from a range of both traditional and progressive influences including what they recall of their own childhood experiences, what they learned in their teacher preparation program, and what the more experienced teachers at their schools do.
Possible conclusions point to the need for teacher preparation programs to remain engaged with graduates in order to help solidify what was learned through the program.
Published: 2020
Updated: May. 11, 2021
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Research highlights the challenges of teacher preparation programs in adequately preparing teachers to meet the needs of diverse students often served in high-needs urban schools.
Teacher preparation programs that include culturally relevant pedagogy, coursework specifically related to school-community interaction, and most importantly, internships with mentorship in urban schools, have demonstrated that teachers specifically trained to teach in urban schools are better prepared and stay in teaching longer.
This study examined the perceptions of 11 clinical supervising teachers and nine pre-service teachers that received flexible University mentoring supports during student teaching in two high-need, urban schools.
The findings illustrate that urban student teaching experiences, when supported by additional collaborative mentorship, have the potential to improve experiences for both pre-service teachers and supervising teachers.
Further, collaboration with schools to link teacher preparation program course content to urban teaching experiences can improve the theory-to-practice gap.
Published: 2021
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021