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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Teacher Candidates Identify What’S Important, Jeania Jones, Lindsay Gallon, Kim Cheek Apr 2021

Culturally Responsive Teaching: Teacher Candidates Identify What’S Important, Jeania Jones, Lindsay Gallon, Kim Cheek

Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

Honorable Mention Winner

Teacher preparation programs prepare teacher candidates (TC) with clinically rich field experiences. These programs prepare teachers to teach groups of students that are culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse. The TCs that participated in this study were in the first semester of the elementary program and were concerned with an experience that would be remote. COVID-19 impacted the experiences of the TCs by removing the field component during the Fall 2020 semester. The candidates were not provided access in the elementary schools to complete the practical experiences due to the districts’ pandemic guidelines. Due to the lack of …