Professional Development School Partnership: Simultaneous Renewal From a Clinical Perspective

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: Teaching in a Professional Development School Partnership

Abstract

The accrediting body, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), has set forth a set of new standards that demand excellence to produce educators who raise P-12 student achievement. This pilot multi-case study describes perspectives and across-case themes of the lived experiences of national key stakeholders in educator preparation programs and their professional development school (PDS) partnership system. CAEP’s five guiding principles of Standard 2: Clinical Partnerships and Practice as a priori codes describe experiences and perspectives of three key stakeholders of the university’s clinical partnership. The three key stakeholders include: (a) university-based teacher educators, (b) school-based teacher educators, and (c) teacher candidates. Researchers discuss results and implications for practice and offer avenues for future research.

Authors

• Derek Decker, Colorado State University - Fort Collins

• Jennifer Roth, Fort Collins High School

• Donna Cooner, Colorado State University