Positioning theory has been used in research to understand how elementary student teachers are positioned while working with their mentor teacher. While this research has identified four general positions, there remains a lack of clarity about these positions, particularly in how they differ. This study explores three contrasting student…

The research aimed to determine the views and expectations of pre-service teachers studying in the field of classroom teaching, because practice teachers in practice schools, and faculty members are responsible for courses related to teaching practice regarding teaching practice processes. The research was designed as a case study from qualitative…

The COVID-19 pandemic, which started to be seen around the world at the beginning of 2020 and affected all the countries of the world in a short time, has severely affected all social systems, health being in the first place, and forced change. In this period, transformations that can be called reforms took place in education. The effect of…

This research was conducted to determine the perceptions of pre-service teachers and middle school students towards mathematics teachers. For this purpose, the perceptions of both the pre-service teachers and students regarding six mathematics teachers were discussed comparatively. The research method is case study. The data of this study were…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of adaptive leadership on pre-service teacher's efficacious beliefs in the learning organizations of professional development schools during the internship practicum. Teacher efficacy was based upon Tschannen-Moran and Hoy's (2001) Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale which included three sub-scales:…

Coteaching, a model for learning to teach, places teacher candidates alongside clinical educators in classrooms. Learning occurs through shared practice and ongoing explication of thinking and reflection. This cross-case study of six dyads from an undergraduate early childhood inclusive education program examines ways that coteaching afforded…

Pandemic has changed the way education has taken place in Brazil, which has occurred remotely. The classes have been taught in the public network especially through lives or WhatsApp. In this paper, the way in which the training activities of the supervised internship and the Pedagogical Residency in the teaching of Physics in schools took place…

The purpose of our study was to examine mentors' conceptualization of mentoring in a residency program. By examining mentors' conceptualization of mentoring in such a context, our findings reflected four main themes: (a) professional transmission, (b) extant knowledge, (c) reciprocal learning, and (d) self-improvement (via external presence). Our…

This work examines the sociocultural and situated nature of teacher learning within the coteaching model for learning to teach with a focus on coevaluation. Coevaluation assumes that teachers accept shared responsibility for assessing the planning, implementation and effectiveness of cotaught curriculum. In this study, a coteaching model for…

Coteaching requires engagement by both student teachers and clinical educators during all aspects of student teaching and is an alternative to the practice of the gradual release of teaching responsibility to the candidate. Though there is an increased use of coteaching as a model for student teaching, little is known about how the model affords…

Teacher protests across the country have garnered widespread attention. This qualitative study explores the role of future teachers in these protests by questioning what leads future teachers to join teacher rallies, what they learn as a result of participating, and how they perceive their experiences will impact their teaching. Data sources…

Four individual studies investigated the effect of mentor teacher leadership characteristics on student intern efficacious beliefs. The leadership characteristics embodied four separate leadership related theories: transformational leadership, authentic leadership, leader-member exchange theory, and servant leadership. Teacher efficacy was based…

Framed by occupational socialization theory (Lawson, 1986), the purpose of this research was to examine perspectives of one university faculty member, eleven pre-service teachers and two cooperating teachers while enacting two clinically rich methods courses in a physical education teacher education program. We analyzed the data (researcher notes,…

In this paper, we present findings from the third year of a multi-year research investigation into the mentoring and coaching practices of cooperating teachers and university facilitators working together with preservice teachers. In this third year, our focus was collaborative coaching--coaching that intentionally involves both the university…

This research investigates a collaboratively constructed observation tool as it is implemented by teacher educators into their direct work with pre-service teachers in the classroom. Constructed by the group with the explicit intention of connecting university coursework with field experience, research examines adaptations made by practitioners…