Rethinking Field Experiences in Preservice Teacher Preparation: Meeting New Challenges for Accountability

Description

The focus of this book is the centrality of clinical experiences in preparing teachers to work with students from diverse cultural, economic, and experiential backgrounds. Organized around three themes—learning teaching through the approximation and representation of practice, learning teaching situated in context, and assessing and improving teacher preparation—Rethinking Field Experiences in Preservice Teacher Preparation provides detailed descriptions of theoretically grounded, research-based practices in programs that prepare preservice teachers to contextualize teaching practices in ways that result in a positive impact on learning for traditionally underserved students. These practices serve current demands for teacher accountability for student learning outcomes and model good practice for engaging teacher educators in meaningful, productive dialogue and analysis geared to developing local programs characterized by coherence, continuity, and consistency. Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 Urban Schools as a Context for Learning Teaching PART I Learning Teaching through the Representation and Approximation of Practice 2 Opportunities and Pitfalls in the Turn toward Clinical Experience in U.S. Teacher Education 3 Moving from Recommendations to Action in Preparing Professional Educators 4 Clinical Prototypes: Nontraditional Teacher Preparation Programs PART II Learning Teaching Situated in Context 5 Fostering Community-Based Field Experiences in Teacher Education 6 Learning Teaching through Clinical Rotations 7 A Clinical Classroom Process 8 Community Immersion Teacher Development: Pragmatic Knowledge of Family and Community in Professional Field-Based Practice PART III Assessing and Improving Teacher Preparation 9 Teacher Performance Assessment: Readiness for Professional Practice 10 Building a Research Agenda and Developing Solutions for Challenges in Clinical Experiences About the Contributors Index