Toward a More Collaborative Teacher Education in Service of ALL Students

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 14
  In Poster Session: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Teacher Education Innovation and Policy

Abstract

Teacher education carries a serious social responsibility in ensuring that teacher educators prepare preservice teachers for culturally responsive teaching that make education accessible to ALL students, especially students with disabilities. To address this public good, different stakeholders—curriculum designers, teacher educators, preservice teachers, and a K-5 public elementary school—collaborated and piloted the integration of Special Education interventions into a reading methods course. This paper characterizes the kinds of collaboration among the stakeholders using a Collaborative Teacher Education Framework espoused by Pugach and Blanton (2009) but also points to another dimension which could be added to enhance the existing framework.

Authors

• Elizabeth Isidro, Western Michigan University

• Linnie Greenlees, Texas Tech University

• Rhonda Stockton, Texas Tech University