Teacher Educator Moves and Intern Responses in Rehearsals of Elementary Science Lessons

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Abstract

In the context of an elementary science methods course at a large Midwestern university in the US, this study examines the feedback preservice teachers received during rehearsals of science lessons and how they interacted with that feedback. Researchers analyzed video recordings of rehearsal sessions to identify the general focus and specific topic of feedback, and the nature of uptake by the rehearsing intern. Teacher educators were also interviewed about their goals and methods for rehearsal sessions. The findings suggest that the teacher educators were most likely to give directive feedback to interns, that this feedback most commonly surrounded science teaching, and that interns were most likely to engage verbally with feedback rather than to immediately incorporate it into the rehearsal.

Authors

• Rachel Kuck, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

• Elizabeth A. Davis, University of Michigan

• Annemarie S. Palincsar, University of Michigan