Preparing Urban Educators to Address Diversity and Equity through Field-Based Teacher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 757-781
Author(s):  
Adam S. Kennedy ◽  
Amy J. Heineke
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Iterative Design ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Urban Educators ◽  
Urban Contexts

This chapter presents a case for field-based teacher preparation through mutually beneficial community partnerships in diverse urban contexts. Such models are a response to calls for change in teacher education, as well as to current policies and research on the central role of field experiences. Extant research is shared on partnerships as a key context for developing programs with depth, effectiveness, and sustainability. Next, information is presented about the development and implementation of one field-based teacher education program designed around mutually beneficial partnerships to prepare effective urban educators. Key themes and practices are demonstrated through data-based vignettes of collaborative field experiences with urban educators. These cases involve unique preparation experiences, stakeholders, and roles, but also serve as illustrations of the ways in which partnerships aimed at achieving mutual benefit must undergo continuous evaluation and redesign. Recommendations for iterative design and implementation of field-based models are offered.

Preparing Urban Educators to Address Diversity and Equity through Field-Based Teacher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 437-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam S. Kennedy ◽  
Amy J. Heineke
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Iterative Design ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Urban Educators ◽  
Urban Contexts

This chapter presents a case for field-based teacher preparation through mutually beneficial community partnerships in diverse urban contexts. Such models are a response to calls for change in teacher education, as well as to current policies and research on the central role of field experiences. Extant research is shared on partnerships as a key context for developing programs with depth, effectiveness, and sustainability. Next, information is presented about the development and implementation of one field-based teacher education program designed around mutually beneficial partnerships to prepare effective urban educators. Key themes and practices are demonstrated through data-based vignettes of collaborative field experiences with urban educators. These cases involve unique preparation experiences, stakeholders, and roles, but also serve as illustrations of the ways in which partnerships aimed at achieving mutual benefit must undergo continuous evaluation and redesign. Recommendations for iterative design and implementation of field-based models are offered.

In Sync

2016 ◽  
pp. 152-171
Author(s):  
Yolanda Lyght Dunston
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Human Element ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Levels Of Support

This chapter explores the concept of student involvement in distance education, and whether or not it is possible for HBCUs to provide an online learning environment that upholds their traditional ideals of a close and personalized educational experience, particularly in a teacher education program that requires field experiences. Based on responses from 269 student surveys, the key factor appears to be the extent to which instructors recognize that online students are individuals with genuine concerns that deserve similar attention as their classmates on campus. This includes being flexible, assisting students who are not as skilled at setting and/or maintaining a pace, establishing and maintaining lines of communication, providing transparency with course grading, being prepared and organized, making themselves available, providing multiple levels of support and interaction, and dealing effectively with technical problems. Faculty at HBCUs should remember that teaching online is still teaching, and be careful not to remove the human element from the process.

Elementary Preservice Teachers and Questioning Strategies in Mathematics

2019 ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
Sandra Browning
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Inservice Teachers ◽  
Questioning Strategies ◽  
Elementary Preservice Teachers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cognitive Rigor

Research has demonstrated an interest in the relationship between teachers’ questioning strategies and children’s ability to reason and learn (Baroody & Ginsburg, 1990; Buschman, 2001; Fennema, Franke, Carpenter & Carey, 1993). Helping preservice teachers develop effective questioning strategies is an important component of a teacher education program. This session describes an exploration designed to determine if EC-6 preservice teachers can (a) recognize effective questioning strategies when observing inservice teachers and (b) use Hess’s Cognitive Rigor Matrix to analyze the level and effectiveness of their own questioning strategies during field experiences.

Teacher Preparation—a Coordinated Approach

1983 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 21-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. Burger ◽  
Lee Jenkins ◽  
Margaret L. Moore ◽  
Gary L. Musser ◽  
Karen Clark Smith
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
State University ◽  
Teaching Situation ◽  
Mathematics Preparation ◽  
Oregon State University

In the September 1981 issue, Dossey reported the “somewhat discouraging” comparison of recommended program criteria with the current teaching situation and curricula for grades K-6. We at Oregon State University had had similar concerns, and in the 1981 fall term we implemented a revised, comprehensive mathematics preparation component for the elementary school teacher education program. Based on the Dossey article, this revised program would rank in the top 5 percent of programs in the country, and we believe it contains the elements necessary to produce an exemplary program.

scholarly journals Exploring the Challenges of Initial Teacher Preparation: Voicing the Concerns from the Field

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Fekede Tuli ◽  
Temesgen Oljira
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Teacher Preparation Program ◽  
Teacher Training Programs ◽  
The Right

It is widely recognized that the best education systems have the best teachers, and a school can only ever be as good as its teachers. However, the quality of a teaching force is dependent on the availability of good quality teacher education program. Hence, the purpose of this study was to explore the challenges of initial teacher preparation program from insiders’ perspectives. Data were collected via semi-structured interview and analyzed narratively. The findings of the study revealed that failure to attract the right people into teaching, poor quality of teacher training programs, weak University and School partnership, unfair and disproportionate treatment of teacher education, policy- practice gap, poor teacher retention strategy, and poor information and communication technology integration as the challenges undermining the teacher education program. The need to attracting best and brightest candidates into the profession, strengthening teacher education programs, improving the management of teacher education, valuing teachers and improving their status are areas identified as implication of the study.

scholarly journals A COLLABORATIVE SHARING OF STORIES ON A JOURNEY TOWARD RECONCILIATION: “BELONGING TO THIS PLACE AND TIME”

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kauʻi Keliipio ◽  
Kimberly Perry ◽  
Colleen Elderton
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Inuit People

This paper emerges from the particular field experiences of three “settler” colleagues working in a teacher education program, each of whom found that their personal and professional relationships with First Nations, Metís, and Inuit people had a positive and constructive bearing on how they responded to provincial mandates and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.

Preparing Teachers to Formatively Assess

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-116
Author(s):  
Timothy A. Boerst ◽  
Meghan Shaughnessy ◽  
Rosalie DeFino ◽  
Merrie Blunk ◽  
Susanna Owens Farmer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Interpretive Skills ◽  
Initial Preparation ◽  
Mathematics Problem

To engage in formative assessment, preservice teachers (PSTs) need to develop skill with the practice of interpretation. The initial preparation of teachers would benefit from having a sense of the interpretation skills brought by PSTs to teacher preparation. We articulate the nature of interpreting as a teaching practice including: articulating inferences, sampling evidence, developing and applying guiding criteria, and monitoring and redressing bias and distortion. We use a teaching simulation to identify the assets of PSTs' initial interpretive skills and areas in which PSTs might need to reconsider and change. An investigation with a group of PSTs from one teacher education program suggests that many PSTs bring skills with making evidence-based interpretations about a student's process for solving a mathematics problem. However, their skills are much more limited for making interpretations about a student's understanding and have potential for bias and distortion. Implications for teacher education are discussed.

Role of Feedback for Bridging Theory- Practice Gap in Teaching Practicum

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-159
Author(s):  
Faiza Masood ◽  
Dr. Malik Ghulam Behlol
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Teaching Practicum ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Theory Practice Gap ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

Incorporating theory into practice is not a simple rather dialectical and complex process of observing, scaffolding, reflecting, and coordinating prospective teachers. It has been observed that interaction in the form of academic feedback between CTs and PTs is missing in the teaching practicum. The present study aims to investigate the perceptions and practices of PTs and CTs about Feedback in teaching practicum to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the Pre-service Teacher Education Program. It is an exploratory investigation applying survey method and semi-structured interview to collect data from PTs and CTs to answer the investigation inquiries about the role of Feedback practices in bridging the theory-practice gap. Purposive and Criterion sampling techniques were applied to select the participants of the study. Findings reveal that the CTs are working as mentors without any professional training and recognition in their department and universities for their contributions in teaching practicum. They are lacking to perform their role effectively in providing written and oral Feedback to PTs for their professional development. School Practicum is suggested to be regular, well organized, and structured instead of a command-based component of the Pre-service Teacher Education Program. Keywords: Feedback, Teaching practicum, Cooperative teacher, Prospective Teacher

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