Self-Study of Teaching Candidates How to Become Critical Consumers of Curricular Materials

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Abstract

With a lens to continuous quality improvement, teacher educators need to consider how to connect curricular materials to the skills and knowledge necessary for preparing teacher candidates. Teacher educators from six institutions studied the outcomes from a common literacy assignment using curricular materials. As teacher candidates focused on the knowledge and the skills involved in using curricular materials, the researchers used self-study as a conduit for critical reflection of the assignment learning goals. Analysis of student annotations indicated the learning opportunity did increase understanding of the role of curricular materials. For the researchers, the self-study created an opportunity to critically reflect on how to design explicit learning opportunities to support candidates’ roles as a critical consumer of curricular materials.

Authors

• Marliese Peltier, Ball State University

• Courtney Shimek, West Virginia University

• Roya Q. Scales, Western Carolina University

• Ann Van Wig, Eastern Washington University

• Elizabeth Bemiss, University of West Florida

• Stephanie Grayson Davis, University of North Carolina - Greensboro