A School-University Partnership: Preservice Educators Collaborate With Middle School Student Leaders Through I Am Malala

• In Event: 30.080 - Roundtable Session 10
  In Roundtable Session: 30.080-3 - Collaborative Approaches to Preparing Teachers: University, School, and Community Partnerships

Abstract

Faculty in the College of Education are examining how to transform our current course of instruction to prepare our students for the demands of twenty-first century teaching. The author serves as faculty advisor for the “Teens for Literacy” program at a local urban school. The collaboration provided Freshmen pre-service teacher education candidates enrolled in “Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education” with the opportunity to exchange letters/ journals, meet, dialogue, and teach middle school students. Middle school students visited the college campus, where university students designed and led the class session. Qualitative (including pre- and post-semi-structured interviews and writing samples) as well as quantitative data (growth in student reading scores) will be presented as data sources

Author

• Anne Katz, Georgia Southern University, Armstrong campus