New England Educational Research Organization. Teaching in the Mirror: Autobiographical Portraits of Interns Learning to Teach

• In Event: The Consortium of State and Regional Educational Research Associations: Distinguished Paper Session 1

Abstract

This paper is part of a larger dissertation study, Learning to Teach: A Mixed-Methods Study Of Interns Learning The Skills of Teaching. The dissertation is grounded in a neo-Piagetian understanding of learning, and takes a mixed methods approach to investigate the process of how teacher interns—in the culminating phase of a comprehensive university-based teacher preparation program—learn the skills of teaching. This paper is a group portrait of three interns whose learning to teach is shaped by each of their own autobiographical journeys. Their narratives reflect on the influence of their personal histories on their developing teaching practice.

Author

• Bryan Mascio