Transforming Latinx Teacher Preparation: Key Design Elements of a Fully Scaled HSI Teacher Residency Program

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Teacher residency programs have emerged as one response to reform pressures to strengthen teacher preparation and, in some cases, as an effort to diversify the educator pipeline, which continues to be predominantly White. This proposed symposium will highlight the key design elements of one full-scale effort to transform teacher preparation at a public, research-intensive Hispanic Serving Institution with a student demographic that is more than 80% Latinx/Hispanic. The symposium will focus on different dimensions of institutional transformation, including the development of new faculty roles to grow candidates; the establishment of supplemental professional development focused on teaching emergent bilinguals; the creation of an aligned, post-residency induction model; and the impact of the residency on teacher candidate readiness and job placement post-residency.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 06:Transformations in Teacher Education Policies, Research, and Practices

Chair

• Erika L. Mein, University of Texas - El Paso

Papers

• Transforming Clinical Faculty Roles to Mentor, Coach, and Support Teacher Residents - Jessica Pussman, University of Texas - El Paso; Marco Delgado, University of Texas - El Paso

• Culturally-Responsive Teacher Preparation for Emergent Bilingual Learners - Patricia L. Ocana, University of Texas - El Paso; Anaeva Rodriguez, University of Texas - El Paso; Jennifer Stefania Herrera Lozano, University of Texas - El Paso

• Extending Support for Latinx Beginning Teachers beyond Residency - Marco Delgado, University of Texas - El Paso; Patricia L. Ocana, University of Texas - El Paso

• Residency Impact and Continuous Improvement in Partnership-Based Teacher Preparation - Erika L. Mein, University of Texas - El Paso; Joyce Asing Cashman, University of Texas - El Paso; Jennifer Stefania Herrera Lozano, University of Texas - El Paso

Discussant

• Sarah Beal, US PREP National Center