Enhancing professional development through performance assessment of early childhood teacher candidates: Focused on edTPA-early childhood education in U.S.

Teacher education programs serving early childhood education teacher candidates have unique challenges and need to work to ensure that each future educator be exposed to a variety of settings and practices throughout their preparation in order to best prepare them to serve the needs of their future young students. A solid background in human development, a well-rounded complement of methods courses grounded in developmentally appropriate practice and experience in a diverse variety of Professional Development Schools (PDS) will go far in meeting this goal. In Pre-K through 3rd grade classrooms early childhood teacher educators can significantly shape these competencies through their choice of, support for, and use of PDSs.

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Providing Early Childhood Education Teacher Candidates Diverse Clinical Understandings Through Professional Development School Experiences

Early Childhood Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7507-8.ch054 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1083-1104

Author(s):

Lea Ann Christenson ◽

Janese Daniels ◽

Judith Cruzado-Guerrero ◽

Stephen T. Schroth ◽

Marisa Dudiak ◽

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Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Teacher Candidates ◽

Teacher Educators ◽

Developmentally Appropriate ◽

Early Childhood Teacher ◽

Teacher Education Programs ◽

Education Teacher ◽

Childhood Education

Teacher education programs serving early childhood education teacher candidates have unique challenges and need to work to ensure that each future educator be exposed to a variety of settings and practices throughout their preparation in order to best prepare them to serve the needs of their future young students. A solid background in human development, a well-rounded complement of methods courses grounded in developmentally appropriate practice and experience in a diverse variety of Professional Development Schools (PDS) will go far in meeting this goal. In Pre-K through 3rd grade classrooms early childhood teacher educators can significantly shape these competencies through their choice of, support for, and use of PDSs.

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Enhancing Early Childhood Education Teacher Candidates' Experiences

Teacher Education for Ethical Professional Practice in the 21st Century - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1668-2.ch005 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 98-122 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stephen T. Schroth

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Teacher Candidates ◽

Undergraduate Research ◽

Early Childhood Teacher ◽

Teacher Education Programs ◽

Education Programs ◽

Childhood Education ◽

Research Initiatives

Teacher education programs face many challenges preparing teacher candidates for the early childhood education classroom. Initiating undergraduate research programs in conjunction with early childhood teacher education can provide a greatly enhanced experience for teacher candidates and bear great benefits to the departments sponsoring this. Undergraduate research initiatives provide pre-service teachers with tremendous opportunities to gain hands-on experiences with many of the theories and strategies they study in their coursework. Such initiatives also serve as tremendous recruiting tools, especially for those early childhood education programs seeking to recruit more males, teacher candidates of color, and those from low-SES backgrounds. Rigorous preparation must be completed before teacher candidates begin to conduct fieldwork, but the benefits to teacher candidates, mentor teachers, and children are many.

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Enhancing Early Childhood Education Teacher Candidates' Experiences

Early Childhood Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7507-8.ch073 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1454-1478

Author(s):

Stephen T. Schroth

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Teacher Candidates ◽

Undergraduate Research ◽

Early Childhood Teacher ◽

Teacher Education Programs ◽

Education Programs ◽

Childhood Education ◽

Research Initiatives

Teacher education programs face many challenges preparing teacher candidates for the early childhood education classroom. Initiating undergraduate research programs in conjunction with early childhood teacher education can provide a greatly enhanced experience for teacher candidates and bear great benefits to the departments sponsoring this. Undergraduate research initiatives provide pre-service teachers with tremendous opportunities to gain hands-on experiences with many of the theories and strategies they study in their coursework. Such initiatives also serve as tremendous recruiting tools, especially for those early childhood education programs seeking to recruit more males, teacher candidates of color, and those from low-SES backgrounds. Rigorous preparation must be completed before teacher candidates begin to conduct fieldwork, but the benefits to teacher candidates, mentor teachers, and children are many.

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