Following the Developmental Trajectory of School-Based Teacher Educators: The Path to Professional Agency

• In Event: Faculty and Doctoral Students' Teaching Experiences in Higher Education

Abstract

Examining teacher educator development (Author, 2019; Goodwin & Kosnick, 2013; Vanassche et al 2015) in a specific context, we highlighted the position of p-12 school-based teacher educators and their development over time and positionality. Through phenomenological case study (Merriam, 1998) of these p-12 school-based teacher educators, we identified a professional continuum with multiple roles and positions where these clinical teacher educators moved from reliance on support structures to leading within these structures.
Inquiring into key influences affecting the developmental trajectory of p-12 school-based teacher educators, we found that structured mentoring through multiple roles in clinical teacher education supported their evolution as leaders of clinical practice in teacher education within their p-12 school sites and at the university.

Authors

• Jennifer L. Snow, Boise State University
  Presenting Author

• Sherry Dismuke, Boise State University
  Presenting Author