As teacher shortages persist in parts of the United States, clinically based teacher educators could play a role in addressing the problem by utilizing practices that enhance (rather than diminish) teacher candidates' motivation to teach. Using self-determination theory as a lens for looking at clinical experiences, this study asked how 12 teacher…

Purpose: This article presents a professional development partnership which has grown together through collaboration resulting in increased capacity to engage mentor teachers (MTs), nurture teacher candidates (TCs), partner in university coursework and professional development, innovate teacher preparation practices and place new teachers with a…

Purpose: Policy makers, professional associations and scholars continue to advocate for the integration of enhanced clinical experiences for future teachers' preparation. These recommendations reflect the growing recognition that few events in preservice teachers' education are more significant than their experiences in the classrooms of veteran…

Video capture can be a very useful tool in helping pre-service teachers (PSTs) recognize both strengths and weaknesses in their teaching, and much research supports the use of video in helping PSTs develop critical reflective practices during their PDS experience (NAPDS Essential 4) while working on edTPA. Initially, video capture is introduced in…

The first year of teaching is often challenging and the year when teachers decide whether to remain in the profession. More than 20% of first-year teachers leave their school or the profession within their first year of teaching and almost 40% of beginning teachers leave the profession within their first five years (McVey & Trinidad, 2019).…

Purpose: The purpose of this poetic inquiry was to understand how the professional development school (PDS) model can help pre-service teachers (PSTs) develop an inclusive philosophy of teaching while positioning themselves as social justice advocates. Four clinical interns collaborated in the research process guided by the university…

The past two decades have seen the rise of the residency model, another nontraditional pathway to certification that offers an intensive, practice-based, context-specific preparation designed to address shortages in hard-to-staff districts. Although advocates call the model innovative, research examining residencies at scale warrants skepticism…

This research aims to uncover the narratives of teacher candidates of color and their experiences with race and racism while learning to teach in a PDS context, develop an understanding of how state and local policies manifest within these experiences, and explore the roles of platicas as a context for critical conversations. This research study…

Purpose: This article shares how providing teacher candidates with experiences in a predominantly black elementary school for their clinical experiences highlighted a need to recognize, acknowledge and address antiblackness in teacher candidates' clinical courses. As well as, a need to emphasize the brilliance and assets of black students.…

Purpose: The ever-changing educational landscape, exacerbated by recent events surrounding COVID, political and cultural unrest, necessitates educators who are antifragile, able to withstand pressures and thrive amidst uncertainty. To this end, the pilot study reported here aims to examine mathematics educators' initial reflections on what it…

Teacher educators broadly agree upon the need to prepare teachers who, as lifelong learners, are poised to meet the perpetually changing demands of teaching. One widely cited approach to addressing this need is to promote the development of an inquiry stance among teacher candidates by engaging them in the cyclical process of practitioner…

Those responsible for supervising teacher candidates have an obligation to promote socially just pedagogies. In this paper, I investigate my own supervisory practice as a novice supervisor in my mediation of a teacher candidate's understanding of social justice. I rely on a sociocultural theoretical perspective (Vygotsky, 1978) and the…

"Emergent teacher leadership" is a new concept that refers to teacher leadership in its earliest forms among teachers at any point in their careers but particularly among teacher candidates and early-career teachers. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to investigate how six teacher candidates perceived their own…

Purpose: School gardening and garden-based learning (GBL) have gained great popularity in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic forced many educators to think creatively about safe, outdoor education. Scholarship from diverse disciplines has demonstrated the positive impact of GBL on student learning, attitudes toward school and various health…

The purpose of this article is to clarify what the authors of the Second Edition of the NAPDS Nine Essentials (NAPDS, 2021) intended related to Essential Nine. This article includes a look back on the original, provides a rationale for changes and offers some ideas and examples intended to help partners implement this important Essential. With the…