The Power of Clinical Preparation in Teacher Education

Embedding Teacher Preparation within P-12 School Contexts

Edited by Ryan Flessner and Debra R. Lecklider

Preparing teachers to work in our nation’s classrooms presents an array of challenges for teacher educators. Recently, organizations such as the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released reports calling for change, supporting clinical teacher preparation, and encouraging links between university faculty, clinical faculty (P-12 educators), and pre-service teachers. This book (as well as its companion text, Case Studies of Clinical Preparation in Teacher Education: An Examination of Three Teacher Preparation Partnerships) responds to calls for change in teacher education. Sponsored by the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) and its Commission on Clinically-Based Teacher Preparation, the book includes program descriptions, theoretical frameworks, and research studies. Initiated in response to Dr. Nancy Zimpher’s keynote speech at ATE’s 2011 Annual Meeting, the Commission on Clinically-Based Teacher Preparation set out to identify exemplary programs of teacher education, promising practices within those programs, and research related to the programs’ clinical practices. This text represents the Commission’s findings.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Association of Teacher Educators

Pages: 234 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-4758-3950-0 • Hardback • September 2017 • $92.00 • (£71.00)

978-1-4758-3951-7 • Paperback • September 2017 • $47.00 • (£36.00)

978-1-4758-3952-4 • eBook • September 2017 • $44.50 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Education / Professional Development, Education / Teacher & Student Mentoring

The Power of Clinical Preparation in Teacher Education

Embedding Teacher Preparation within P-12 School Contexts

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Summary

Preparing teachers to work in our nation’s classrooms presents an array of challenges for teacher educators. Recently, organizations such as the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released reports calling for change, supporting clinical teacher preparation, and encouraging links between university faculty, clinical faculty (P-12 educators), and pre-service teachers. This book (as well as its companion text, Case Studies of Clinical Preparation in Teacher Education: An Examination of Three Teacher Preparation Partnerships) responds to calls for change in teacher education. Sponsored by the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) and its Commission on Clinically-Based Teacher Preparation, the book includes program descriptions, theoretical frameworks, and research studies. Initiated in response to Dr. Nancy Zimpher’s keynote speech at ATE’s 2011 Annual Meeting, the Commission on Clinically-Based Teacher Preparation set out to identify exemplary programs of teacher education, promising practices within those programs, and research related to the programs’ clinical practices. This text represents the Commission’s findings.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Association of Teacher Educators

Pages: 234 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-4758-3950-0 • Hardback • September 2017 • $92.00 • (£71.00)

978-1-4758-3951-7 • Paperback • September 2017 • $47.00 • (£36.00)

978-1-4758-3952-4 • eBook • September 2017 • $44.50 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Education / Professional Development, Education / Teacher & Student Mentoring

Author

Ryan Flessner is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. His teaching and research interests include teacher education, mathematics education, practitioner inquiry, and issues of equity, diversity, and social justice.

Debra R. Lecklider is a Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Education at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her interests include educational leadership and innovative practices that lead to collaborative and inspired change in education.

Table of Contents

Foreword – James L. Alouf
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Ryan Flessner & Debra R. Lecklider
Chapter 1: Problematizing Clinical Education: What is Our Future? - Danielle V. Dennis, Rebecca W. Burns, Katie Tricarico, Sarah van Ingen, Jennifer Jacobs, & Jeni Davis
Chapter 2: Striving for Critically Responsive Teacher Preparation: Remaining Relevant by Shaping Programs to Reflect Who and Where We Teach - Teresa R. Fisher-Ari, Carla Tanguay, Heather L. Lynch, Rhina Fernandes Williams, Ruth Robinson Saxton, & Julie Rainer Dangel
Chapter 3: Bronx Teachers for Bronx Schools: Lehman College’s Elementary Teacher Residency Program - Harriet Fayne, Debra Coffey, Anne Marie Marshall, Nancy Dubetz, & Andrea Barra
Chapter 4: A Clinical Elementary Education Pathway: Preparing Teachers of Elementary Mathematics - Ann McCoy, Deborah Theiss, Vidal E. Olivares, & Nicole Nickens
Chapter 5: Practitioner Inquiry as the Anchor of Clinical Practice Throughout the Teacher Preparation Program - Darby Delane, Angela Hooser, Mark Richner, Rachel Wolkenhauer, Suzanne McWhorter Colvin, & Nancy Fichtman Dana
Chapter 6: Opening the Black Box: Self Study of Clinical Practices in Educator Preparation - Patricia S. Tate, Carol A. Kochhar-Bryant, Suzanna M. Wise, Vince P. O’Neill, Kimberly J. Sloan, & Jennifer L. Whitson
Chapter 7: Clinical Faculty Preparation and Their Effectiveness as Supervisors: A Critical Component of Teacher Education Programs - Elizabeth Wilkins
Chapter 8: Turning Teacher Education Upside-Down from the Bottom Up - Alexander Cuenca & Susanna L. Benko
Chapter 9: Foundational Frameworks that Guide Activity Within a School/University Partnership - Catherine H. Reischl, Debi Khasnabis, Timothy Boerst , & Melissa K. Stull
Chapter 10: Emerging in the Eye of a Storm: Indianapolis Public Schools/Butler University Laboratory School - Susan Adamson
Chapter 11: A Clinically Rich Teacher Education Model for Bilingual Science Teachers: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned - Tracy Hogan, Daryl Gordon, & Corinne Donovan
Chapter 12: The Power of Clinical Preparation in Teacher Education: Themes and Recommendations – D. John McIntyre
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