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Building a Knowledge Base for Elementary Teacher Education

Sun, April 15, 8:15 to 9:45am, New York Hilton Midtown, Floor: Concourse Level, Concourse B Room

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This symposium focuses on efforts to build a knowledge base for elementary teacher education. It brings together several papers from a longitudinal study of elementary teacher preparation in five universities in three states. The papers address challenges in conducting such longitudinal research and findings regarding how teaching candidate characteristics and program coherence are associated with novice teachers’ development of knowledge. The papers also examine the nature of approximations of practice once beginning teachers start teaching full-time and consider novices’ experiences with teacher evaluation. Thus, this symposium contributes to efforts to build a knowledge base for designing high-quality elementary teacher education programs that support elementary candidates with a range of background experiences, beliefs, and knowledge.

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