International Portal of Teacher Education
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During field experiences in teacher education, student teachers are generally placed individually with a mentor.
Teacher education institutes search for alternative field experience models, inspired by collaborative learning such as team teaching.
This study explores two team teaching models, parallel and sequential teaching, by investigating the student teachers’ perspective.
Quantitative (survey) and qualitative (self-report) methods were used to map their attitudes toward both models, their perception on collaboration, advantages and disadvantages, and the conditions for implementation they consider critical.
Student teachers adopt positive feelings toward both models.
In sequential teaching, collaboration is experienced significantly higher than in parallel teaching.
Both models have their own advantages and disadvantages, but advantages clearly outweigh disadvantages.
In comparison with previous research, decreased workload and better management are new advantages, interdependence and complex management new disadvantages. “Preparation for new roles” is the most important condition in order to successfully implement both models.
Published: 2020
Updated: Jul. 07, 2020
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An essential component of teacher preparation is clinical practice that allows teacher candidates (TCs) to observe, reflect upon, test their ideas, and adjust and improve their methods in classrooms.
Weaknesses in the structure and organization between coursework and clinical practice in teacher preparation programs often present barriers from fully achieving these goals.
University–school partnerships have the potential to overcome these challenges and create spaces for mutually beneficial learning opportunities for all stakeholders.
In this article, the authors identify six levels to illustrate the continua of work with schools in the preparation of TCs that describe how a program might move from current partnership practice to the kinds of partnership practice described by McDonald and colleagues and the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).
While developing partnerships with schools is work that has inherent challenges, the potential of this work to meaningfully transform the preparation of teachers is crucial.
Published: 2020
Updated: Jul. 06, 2020
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This qualitative case study was motivated by an interest in understanding whether and in what ways practice-based approaches to teacher learning can support teachers in practicing responsiveness as opposed to practicing decontextualized moves.
To this end, the researchers investigated how early-career teachers in a practice-based professional development program were supported to approximate teaching practices. They focused on the extent to which approximations of practice supported teachers to hone their skill at being responsive to students’ ideas.
Findings revealed characteristics of approximations of practice that support teachers in developing their capacity to enact responsive instruction.
These findings have implications for program design, teacher educator pedagogy, and future research.
Published: 2020
Updated: Jul. 02, 2020
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This study investigated what happened during the implementation of a co-teaching model for student-teaching from a relational perspective.
When analyzed through the theoretical framework of care ethics, teacher-candidates and their mentor-teachers developed caring relationships, acknowledged and negotiated differential power dynamics, and described cultivating a caring climate through dialogue and modeling.
Published: 2020
Updated: Jun. 29, 2020
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With a burgeoning U.S. population of emergent bilingual learners and others who use nondominant language forms, the need for language knowledge among teachers is acute. Beginning from the inside out by examining one’s own complex language uses may be a first step toward envisioning and later developing classroom cultures that support diverse language forms for diverse purposes.
In all, 262 undergraduate education students used self-reflexive inquiry, documenting ways they and others use language, through language inventories, surveys, and essays. Participants were majority students of color, half bilingual.
Students reported awareness of rich diversity and nuances of language uses, purposes, and fluidity across contexts.
Although students often used a formal/informal contrast to describe language uses, this distinction was complicated.
Understandings of language surfaced in writing as students engaged with linguistically diverse peers and situated their linguistic repertoires in sociopolitical context.
Drawing on results and students’ reflections on the writings as tools, we offer implications for teacher education.
Published: 2018
Updated: Jun. 28, 2020
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Classroom videos can make instructional practice public, cultivating collaborative, critical teacher discussions.
However, video-based learning also involves a risk—the risk of hurting one’s own or a colleague’s public image, or face.
In this study, the authors investigate the role of face threat and face management in teacher professional learning in 16 cases of video-based discussions in six school-based teacher teams.
They present findings about the prevalence of face-work, which inhibits or mitigates face threat, as well as an account of various face-work strategies.
They illuminate the role face-work plays in shaping opportunities for teacher learning, by analyzing in detail one video-based discussion.
This linguistic ethnographic analysis suggests that face threat and face-work in video-based learning are inevitable and have the potential to both catalyze and constrain productive pedagogical discourse.
The study demonstrates the critical role of face-work in video-based teacher learning, and the feasibility of investigating it.
Published: 2019
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020
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In teacher education, it is imperative that course design, method of instruction, and classroom procedures align with the content.
One way to achieve this may be to “flip” the classroom. While flipped classrooms have received considerable attention in recent years, much remains unknown about their effect on basic psychological needs or learning outcomes of preservice teachers.
The purpose of the present study was to address this gap by utilizing a quasi-experimental design to examine differences in motivation and objective learning outcomes after controlling for socioeconomic status (SES) and grade point average (GPA) between traditional and flipped sections of a foundational educational course (N = 263).
Results revealed that preservice teachers in the traditional section had significantly higher scores on two of the motivation outcomes (e.g., intrinsic and identified regulation), but that preservice teachers in the flipped sections had significantly higher scores on several indices of objective learning outcomes.
Implications for teacher education are discussed.
Published: 2019
Updated: Jun. 14, 2020
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Much research on teachers’ professional vision examines development through video interventions.
Evidence suggests they change focus towards specifics, subject matter and students and away from the evaluation.
This study was designed to examine whether there was a discernible difference between viewing pre-service teachers’ own videos or general videos and if there were differences between disciplines.
However, in marked contrast to existing literature, the video intervention led to no important discernible differences between video conditions and few differences between discipline conditions.
We discuss possible reasons for this and demonstrate a positive role of divergent replications such as this in understanding the role of video interventions in the development of professional vision.
Published: 2019
Updated: Jun. 14, 2020
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This paper focuses on the training of Arab English teachers as per the directives of the Ministry of Education, particularly the Academic Class practicum.
Using both Legitimation Code Theory and Appraisal Theory, this study compares the propositional content of the practicum programme provided by a teaching college in central Israel, with the educational orientation of Muslim Arab student teachers.
Results reveal a ‘code clash’ between the curricular policy and the student teachers, shedding light on ways to re-scaffold the practicum to work towards a ‘code match’.
Published: 2019
Updated: May. 12, 2020
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Learning to teach is an emotional endeavour and student teachers challenging emotions are recurrently created in teacher education.
The aim of this study was to investigate student teachers’ coping with emotionally challenging situations in teacher education.
In the study, 22 student teachers studying their last year of teacher education participated through semi-structured interviews.
The data were analysed using constructivist grounded theory methodology.
The findings revealed that coping with emotionally challenging situations was connected to student teachers’ main concern of the discrepancies between idealistic conceptions and experiences.
This included wanting to have an extensive impact on future pupils as a student teacher and experiencing the ambition as potentially exhausting.
In coping with this discrepancy, three strategies were used: change advocacy, collective sharing and responsibility reduction.
The coping strategies are discussed in the light of existing literature and potential implications are addressed.
Published: 2019
Updated: May. 09, 2020