Secrets of Teacher Ed Part 1: A Game-Changing Tool

A couple of years ago as I was observing a student teacher, the often-shared thought that “the school classroom is the only place that hasn’t changed in the past fifty years” came to my mind. I have always disagreed with that statement.

I feel that today the curriculum is much more clearly focused, teachers are better trained, and there is definitely more use of technology. On the negative side, testing is higher-stakes too. But as I sat there, I realized that in most cases we are still supervising student teachers the way that it was done when I was a student teacher decades ago!

It’s always the same routine: the university supervisor shows up, watches the student teacher teach, takes notes, completes an evaluation form, and has a brief conference with the student teacher. This is what I was doing at the time too. I rationalized that I always involved my student teachers by starting with questions like “What went well?” and “What would you do differently?” But this process still seemed like something I was doing to them and not so much with them.

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