Equitable Teaching and the Core Practice Movement: Preservice Teachers' Professional Reasoning

Autor/in	Kane, Britnie Delinger
Titel	Equitable Teaching and the Core Practice Movement: Preservice Teachers' Professional Reasoning
Quelle	In: Teachers College Record, 122 (2020) 11, (40 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-4681
Schlagwörter	Equal Education; Educational Practices; Preservice Teacher Education; Teacher Competencies; Logical Thinking; Student Needs; Relevance (Education); Thinking Skills; Decision Making; Problem Solving; Writing (Composition); Language Arts; Writing Instruction; Teacher Education Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungspraxis; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrkunst; Relevance; Relevanz; Denkfähigkeit; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Problemlösen; Schreibübung; Sprachkultur; Schreibunterricht
Abstract	Background/Context: The Core Practice movement continues to gain momentum in teacher education research. Yet critics highlight that equitable teaching cannot be reduced to a set of "core" practices, arguing that such a reduction risks representing teaching as technical work that will be neither culturally responsive nor sustaining. Instead, they argue that preservice teachers need opportunities to develop professional reasoning that takes the specific strengths and needs of students, communities, and subject matter into account. Purpose: This analysis takes up the question of how and whether pedagogies of investigation and enactment can support preservice teachers' development of the professional reasoning that equitable teaching requires. It conceptualizes two types of professional reasoning: interpretive, in which reasoners decide how to frame instructional problems and make subsequent efforts to solve them, and prescriptive, in which reasoners solve an instructional problem as given. Research Design: This work is a qualitative, multiple case study, based on design research in which preservice teachers participated in three different cycles of investigation and enactment, which were designed around a teaching practice central to equitable teaching: making student thinking visible. Preservice teachers attended to students' thinking in the context of the collaborative analysis of students' writing and also through designed simulations of student-teacher writing conferences. Findings/Results: Preservice teachers' collaborative analysis of students' writing supported prescriptive professional reasoning about disciplinary ideas in ELA and writing instruction (i.e., How do seventh graders use hyperbole? How is hyperbole related to the Six Traits of Writing?), while the simulation of a writing conference supported preservice teachers to reason interpretively about how to balance the need to support students' affective commitment to writing with their desire to teach academic concepts about writing. Conclusions/Recommendations: This analysis highlights an important heuristic for the design of pedagogies in teacher education: Teacher educators need to attend to preservice teachers' opportunities for both interpretive and prescriptive reasoning. Both are essential for teachers, but only interpretive reasoning will support teachers to teach in ways that are both intellectually rigorous and equitable. The article further describes how and why a tempting assumption--that opportunities to role-play student-teacher interactions will support preservice teachers to reason interpretively, while non-interactive work will not--is incomplete and avoidable. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01