Teacher Educators’ Collaborative Self-Study on the Teaching of Diverse Texts

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Abstract

The aim of our broader project is to identify principles for supporting preservice teachers (PSTs) to select diverse texts for instruction and communicate their choices to families in an effort to partner with them. Within this project, we collaboratively designed a caregiver letter assignment, during which we also engaged in collaborative self-study of our planning and implementation of the activities related to this assignment. The following research question guided our study: What can be learned from the process of collaboratively designing and implementing a caregiver letter assignment about diverse texts for PSTs?

Authors

• Michelle Nguyen Kwok, Texas A&M University

• Susan Fields, Texas A&M University

• Ambyr R. Rios, Kansas State University

• Kierstin M. Giunco, University of Cincinnati

• Sharon D. Matthews, Texas A&M University

• Christine Leighton, Emmanuel College

• Grace K. Tumushabe, Emmanuel College