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Preservice Courses, Student Teaching Experiences, and Beginning Teacher Outcomes

Tue, April 21, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Virtual Room

Session Type: Symposium

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This session focuses on several large-scale, quantitative studies of teacher preparation and beginning teacher outcomes. Recent studies have examined how novices’ experiences in teacher preparation are related to their effectiveness as novice teachers, but few large-scale studies have explored the nuances of teaching candidates’ experiences in coursework and student teaching or how these experiences and school contextual factors shape key outcomes. Identifying the preparation experiences associated with the development of teachers’ knowledge, self-efficacy, and instructional practices is essential for supporting a high-quality teacher workforce. Studying larger groups of pre-service teachers can help explain how variability in the foci of content and methods courses, the conditions of student teaching, and the degree of preparation program coherence influence teacher development at scale.

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