Teaching residencies offer opportunities for sustained support within schools as a liminal space for novice teachers, and school-based mentor teachers significantly impact residency outcomes. Mentoring improves when mentors have clear expectations for their role and support for meeting those expectations. This mixed-method case study investigates…

A nationwide shortage of qualified special educators has led to a push for alternative ways to recruit and retain special educators, including apprenticeship and residency programs. This article describes a residency program in New Hampshire that provides housing to teachers who are working on their special education endorsements at a local…

To meet accreditation expectations, teacher preparation programs must demonstrate their candidates are evaluated using summative assessment tools that yield sound, reliable, and valid data. These tools are primarily used by the clinical experience team -- university supervisors and mentor teachers. Institutional beliefs regarding best practices…

Within initial teacher education (ITE), there is a complex and dynamic relationship between the theoretical content delivered within university settings and the practical components experienced within schools. Strengthening the nexus between the two represents the ongoing work of teacher educators and an ongoing challenge for pre-service teachers.…

As teacher residencies have expanded over the last 20 years, so has research on these innovative programs. But there is currently limited research on how residencies approach teacher-student relationship development and no research from the perspectives of the K-12 students residents serve. This article features interviews with 118 K-8 students in…

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) approved the first nationally registered K-12 teacher apprenticeship program in January 2022, opening the door to a rapidly growing pathway for prospective teachers. DOL has now approved registered teacher apprenticeships in more than 30 states. Kentucky's first program is registered through the Kentucky Career…

Due to widespread teacher shortages, a desire for teacher diversity, and the need for specific expertise in PreK-12th grade classrooms, individual state-level departments of education have instituted alternative pathways toward teacher certification. These pathways blend traditional educator preparation practices with Earn While You Learn…

This is a study intended to address white supremacy in science education. To accomplish this, we describe how one White intern, Boaz, learned to teach science in anti-racist ways. By detailing how whiteness mattered in his learning to teach, we demonstrate that whiteness is potentially constant in White peoples' learning to teach science in…

This study examines the influence of personality-based matching in mentor-mentee pairings within a teacher residency program. Using the Big Five Personality traits, we investigated whether personality similarity and perceived similarity within mentor teacher (MT) and teacher resident (TR) dyads are associated with satisfaction in the mentoring…

Texas has made a substantial investment in teacher residencies--a research-based approach to high-quality, practice-based teacher preparation. At the direction of the legislature, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) launched this large-scale expansion of residencies to improve access to high-quality preparation and thereby help mitigate ongoing…

This study examined the potential role of critical reflection as a tool to support pre-service early childhood teacher interns in understanding and questioning pedagogical choices witnessed in their preschool internships while developing their own socially responsible teaching capacity. This study contributes to the field of critical reflection in…

This case study examines the use and possibilities of blogging as reflective practice journals by student teachers during their practicum. The blog serves as a tool for the construction of their teacher identity through the encouragement of daily reflection on school experiences. The study investigates how the blog, as a digital tool, facilitates…

Previous scholarship has signaled the potential of practitioner inquiry for fostering an inquiry stance among teacher candidates during preservice teacher education. Little is known, however, about the relationships teacher candidates assume vis-à-vis knowledge construction -- a core dimension of inquiry stance -- as they inquire. The study…

This paper discusses a teacher residency model that has been collaboratively developed with a mid-sized urban school district struggling with high teacher turnover and a mid-sized university working to support our partner district and provide beneficial clinical experiences for our candidates. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of…

Early career teacher retention and progression are complex issues which inform discourse about and review of pre-service teacher preparation. Debate about how to best connect pre-service teachers' theoretical learning about teaching to practical application and reflection within the classroom (praxis) is ever-present within this dialogue. Extended…