"It Just Works Better": Introducing the 2:1 Model of Co-Teaching in Teacher Preparation

Autor/inn/en	Tschida, Christina M.; Smith, Judith J.; Fogarty, Elizabeth A.
Titel	"It Just Works Better": Introducing the 2:1 Model of Co-Teaching in Teacher Preparation
Quelle	In: Rural Educator, 36 (2015) 2, S.11-26 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0273-446X
Schlagwörter	Student Teachers; Cooperating Teachers; Team Teaching; Educational Change; Teacher Education; Models; Rural Areas; Rural Schools; Student Teaching; Student Teacher Supervisors; Elementary Education; Special Education; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Co-operation; Cooperation; Teacher; Teachers; Kooperation; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Teamteaching; Bildungsreform; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Analogiemodell; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Rural areas; School; Schools; Schule; Schulen; Teaching practice; Unterrichtspraxis; Elementarunterricht; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen
Abstract	Many issues influence reform in teacher preparation including national accountability efforts, professional teaching standards, and local or regional factors. This study examines a rurally-located teacher education program's efforts to reform clinical preparation through co-teaching. Researchers argue that their adaption of the typical one-to-one (1:1) model of co-teaching to a two-to-one (2:1) model, where two teacher candidates work collaboratively with one cooperating teacher, greatly enhances the student teaching experience. This phenomenological research describes the first year of implementation. Despite cooperating teacher concerns about teacher candidates being prepared for their own classrooms, student teachers learned valuable lessons in collaboration and co-planning, built strong relationships with peers and cooperating teachers, and greatly impacted K-6 student learning. Implications suggest a 2:1 co-teaching model of student teaching allows for fewer placements, which ultimately allows selection of quality cooperating teachers who mentor teacher candidates in powerful ways. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	National Rural Education Association. e-mail: theruraleducator@gmail.com; Web site: https://journals.library.msstate.edu/ruraled
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01