Finding a Space for Teaching When the partnership began, it was more of an agreement for teaching space. After a semester of using a high school classroom and engaging in a few opportunities that being in a high school presented, the division chair and I planned more intentional experiences for the candidates and mentor teachers. […]
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When Weather Hits
Partnership Placements Our district-university partnership for teacher preparation presents me the opportunity to teach my spring English methods course in a local high school every Tuesday. The embedded field experience hours (practice) interplay with the theoretical readings and other assignments (praxis) to better prepare candidates as practitioners. This clinical model depends on the high school […]
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School Partnership Beginnings
Persistently Reaching Out Since November of 2017, the director of educator preparation and I had been working to find spring placements for my five secondary English education candidates in one school setting. In previous semesters, candidates had been scattered across area school districts that were demographically, culturally, and often pedagogically different from one another. With […]
