Using Documentation Panels in a Preservice Teaching Program to Support Elementary Student Learning

• In Event: 65.079 - Roundtable Session 23
  In Roundtable Session: 65.079-10 - Teacher Candidates' Understandings and Uses of Assessment

Abstract

Abstract
In this article, we examine the use of documentation panels in intermediate classrooms as a means of analyzing student work across content areas in an elementary teacher education program. The use of Reggio inspired documentation panels, collaborative dialogue, and the practice of gathering and interpreting student artifacts prompts deeper understandings of children’s development and work. A major focus of this study was the collaboration between three courses (reading methods, science methods, and math methods) with the same group of elementary preservice teachers (interns). The collaboration spanned over three semesters, resulted in over 80 intern artifacts, and supported the use and success of documentation panels as a means to analyze student work and deepen the reflective practice of interns.

Authors

• Jane H Leeth, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis

• Paula A. Magee, Indiana University - IUPUI

• Craig J. Willey, Indiana University - Indianapolis