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Promising Practices For Supervisors Of Teacher Candidates Enrolled In Yearlong, Co-Taught Clinical Experiences, Toni Strieker, Daphne Hubbard, Megan Adams, Neporcha Cone
Promising Practices For Supervisors Of Teacher Candidates Enrolled In Yearlong, Co-Taught Clinical Experiences, Toni Strieker, Daphne Hubbard, Megan Adams, Neporcha Cone
Georgia Educational Research Association Conference
Promising Practices for Supervisors of Teacher Candidates Enrolled in
Yearlong, Co-taught Clinical Experiences
Abstract
This self-study examined the pedagogical practices of university supervisors who supervised teacher candidates, enrolled in yearlong, co-taught, P-12, clinical experiences. Supervisory practices were situated in a collegial, reflective and developmental model of supervision. The participant sample included 41 teacher candidates, along with 41 of their collaborating teachers and 15 field supervisors who supervised four to six candidates throughout the yearlong experience. Our findings indicate that we, along with our collegial supervisors, used collaborative and non-directive approaches to structure the dialogue with our teacher candidates and the …
Special Educators Describe The Critical Mass Of Co-Teaching, Cynthia T. Shamberger, Kendra W. Henriques
Special Educators Describe The Critical Mass Of Co-Teaching, Cynthia T. Shamberger, Kendra W. Henriques
Georgia Educational Research Association Conference
Co-teaching is an instructional approach usually initiated by school administrators to help general and special education teachers who share a single classroom to ensure students with disabilities have access to the general curriculum. Although research regarding co-teaching is still in need of further development in some areas such as student achievement, co-teaching has increasingly grown in popularity as an option for addressing the multiple needs of diverse learners, including students with disabilities. Some school professionals and researchers who are proponents of this instructional delivery model believe that, "At the core of co-teaching is determining what instructional techniques will be most …