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Preservice English Teachers’ Evolving Conceptions Of 21st-Century Writing, Amber Jensen

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

This study used stimulated-recall interviews throughout four secondary English preservice teachers’ (PSTs) semester-long student teaching internships to examine how critical teaching moments shaped their evolving conceptions of 21st-century writing. The article first describes the participants’ collective definitions of features and experiences of 21st-century writing in the ELA classroom, focusing specifically on how they understood digital and multimodal composition. It then examines two case studies that demonstrate how PSTs’ teaching experiences destabilized, challenged, and contradicted their emerging definitions. Findings suggest that English educators may engage PSTs in conceptualizing nuanced and flexible 21st-century writing pedagogies as they construct field experiences as reflective …

Teacher Candidates’ Use Of Critical Literacy To Shift Thinking About Texts And Social Justice, Aimee Papola-Ellis

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

It is essential to support teacher candidates in becoming culturally responsive and learning about social justice in the classroom as schools across the country become more culturally and linguistically diverse. In this qualitative study, the author looked at children’s literature as a way to support teacher candidates’ learning about critical literacy and social justice. Teacher candidates constructed an annotated bibliography of children’s texts centered around a topic of their choice. Findings suggest teachers increased their understanding and use of a critical literacy lens on the literature they selected and developed a deeper understanding of the potential connections between children’s texts …

A Second Look At Literacy Leadership Preparation Practices, Laurie A. Sharp, Roberta D. Raymond, Rebekah Piper

The Reading Professor

Abstract

In today’s schools, PreK-12 classroom teachers must be literacy leaders. The purpose of the current study was to examine how literacy teacher educators prepare future PreK-12 classroom teachers for literacy leadership. Using the International Literacy Association’s Standards 2017 publication as a framework and concepts of distributed leadership and teacher leadership as theoretical lenses, the current study employed a cross-sectional survey research design to ascertain current preparation practices. Qualitative data were collected among 86 literacy teacher educators who were affiliated with university-based teacher education programs located throughout the United States. Data were analyzed using a three-level classification diversity analysis and …