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What Do You Do When You Don't Know How To Respond? Supporting Pre-Service Teachers To Use Picture Books To Facilitate Difficult Conversations, Kathryn Struthers Ahmed, Nida Ali
What Do You Do When You Don't Know How To Respond? Supporting Pre-Service Teachers To Use Picture Books To Facilitate Difficult Conversations, Kathryn Struthers Ahmed, Nida Ali
Occasional Paper Series
In this paper, the authors – a preservice teacher (PST) and a teacher educator – consider how teacher education might better prepare PSTs to use picture books to facilitate difficult conversations in elementary classrooms. They share missed opportunities from their own experiences in a fourth-grade fieldwork classroom and in a graduate-level elementary literacy methods course where they felt unprepared to respond to students’ comments about “controversial” topics. They reimagine how these experiences might have been transformed to be more educative for PSTs, first by considering how they could have responded more thoughtfully in the moment and then by thinking about …
Advisement: The Journey For Preservice Students, Maritza B. Macdonald
Advisement: The Journey For Preservice Students, Maritza B. Macdonald
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
Describes the characteristics of advisement in the Preservice Program at Bank Street College of Education within the context of nine field-related issues, which seem to be predominant in the professional development of preservice students.