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The research reported in this paper is based on an exploration of the ways in which student teachers learn about the issues and concerns that shape their own professional learning. 22 Primary science student teacher participants were stimulated to reflect upon critical incidents in order to facilitate identifying their teaching concerns and teaching needs. The results indicate that by helping student teachers to focus on critical incidents in their learning to teach, they come to question their practice more deeply .

This article presents a teacher education approach that focuses on providing student teachers with an explicit theoretical framework with which to understand and examine their teaching and practice. The authors first discuss the main principles and aspects of the program in which they teach. To understand the authors' approach to teacher education, they provide some context information about the specific program. To illustrate their approach, the authors present the final task which involves an examination of the student teacher's own teaching practice and underlying perceptions. The authors conclude that their approach provide a theoretical framework for student teachers to understand and examine their practice.

Supporting student teachers in learning to teach is a collaborative effort by mentor teachers, teacher education supervisors, and student teachers. Each of the participants appraises effort and progress in learning to teach from different perspectives, however. This study explores how practice lessons are assessed by multiple raters. Triad members (51 participants in total) rated a particular teaching performance in a lesson given by the student teacher.