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Connections With Practitioners Adds Excellence To Teacher Education, Richard Stahl, Richard Hawkes
Connections With Practitioners Adds Excellence To Teacher Education, Richard Stahl, Richard Hawkes
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The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) has established the Regional Partnership Program; consisting of nine regional centers located across the state; so that UNI may be geographically in touch with all areas of the state. All of the centers have a common structure: the administrator of each center is a tenure track UNI professor; all centers have implemented a full semester student teaching curriculum; and all center partnerships have established an advisory cadre of local education practitioners. The program has seven major characteristics: (1) use of a regional network allows expanded student teaching experiences under a centralized administration; (2) in …