Pathways to Teacher Preparation: Conflict and Compatibility Between Alternative Pathways and University Pathways to Licensure

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session discusses how we prepare America’s teachers. There are a barrage of pathways to licensure. Traditional schools of education prepare teachers in traditional ways while developing and partnering with others to create alternate pathways. Other entities, both profit and non-profit, prepare teachers in isolation and in partnership with universities, school districts, and state agencies. We explore: 1) the challenges facing schools when they receive teachers from programs with differing and conflicting ideologies; 2) discuss plans to reorganized, re-envision, and implement teacher education, and 3) explore how university professors participate in or hinder teacher preparation, especially when teacher preparation is not directly their research agenda, but they are actively involved in program development and in teaching these novice teachers.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education

Chair

• Kerri Tobin, Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge

Speakers

• Brendan Job, Haverford School

• Mari Koerner, Arizona State University

• Steven T. Bickmore, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Kenneth M Zeichner, University of Washington

Discussant

• David E. Kirkland, New York University