Preparing for Equity and Justice: A Multi-Perspectival Exploration of One Urban Teacher Preparation Program

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium offers a multi-perspectival exploration of pre-service teacher (PST) learning experiences within one justice-oriented teacher preparation program. This symposium offers a holistic view of the program's opportunities for PSTs to engage with justice, equity, and community issues across methods coursework and student teaching (Cochran-Smith, 2023; Feiman-Nemser & Buchmann, 1985). This is a critically important area for teacher education today, in order to better understand how to prepare teachers as central actors in educational transformation and renewal. By interrogating these experiences from the perspectives of teacher candidates, mentor teachers, and early career graduates, the session sheds light on PSTs' learning opportunities related to justice and equity-oriented practices.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 05: Teacher & Teacher Educator Learning

Chair

• Amy Guillotte, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

• What Mentors’ Practices Reveal about How They Understand the Work of Mentoring - Janine Remillard, University of Pennsylvania; Tess Bernhard, University of Pennsylvania; Lara Condon, University of Memphis; Riku Sayuj, University of Pennsylvania

• Theory, Practice, Community: How Preservice Teachers of Color Navigate Relationships with Local Communities During Student Teaching - Adina Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania

• “Teaching the essay like a hamburger”: Social Studies Teacher Candidates and Writing Instruction - Andrew del Calvo, Rutgers University - New Brunswick; Amy Guillotte, University of Pennsylvania

• Early-Career Teachers’ Reflections on Teacher Education and its Impact on Current Teaching Practice - Lara Condon, University of Memphis

Discussant

• Andrew J. Schiera, University of Colorado - Boulder