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Extending and Interrogating the Quantitative Evidence That Clinical Mentors Matter

Sat, April 15, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT (2:50 to 4:20pm CDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 2, Michigan A

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Student teaching is widely recognized as “a key component—even ‘the most important’ component—of pre-service teacher preparation”, with high-quality student teaching experiences considered a critical component of effective education preparation programs. Clinical mentors (CMs), also called “cooperating teachers,” play a central role in those experiences by hosting preservice student teachers (PSTs) in their P12 classrooms and providing them with coaching/mentoring. This panel brings together four papers that extend and interrogate the existing quantitative evidence regarding the impacts of CMs, including studying the association between CM and PST instructional effectiveness, reporting experimental results of CM instructional effectiveness on PST observation ratings and retention, and exploring whether PSTs who are supervised by National Board Certified CMs are more instructionally effective.

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