Dare We Adopt A Justice Oriented Approach to Teacher Preparation? Re-Centering Students, Schools, and Communities

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Neither traditional teacher preparation programs nor alternative certification programs seem to be able to meet the needs of students, schools, and communities in urban settings. High teacher attrition rates, a lack of racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity among teachers, and low student graduation rates are all too familiar features of urban public schools. As a matter of justice, we argue for a third way for teacher preparation - one that we believe can attend to all of these concerns at once. In this symposium, we introduce our approach, teacher residency, making the case that it is possible to create a university-based, student-, school-, and community-centered teacher preparation program that is clinically intensive, academically rigorous, and, above all, justice and equity minded.

Sub Track

• American Educational Studies Association

Chair

• Nooshin Shafaei, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Discussant

• Isabel Nuñez, Purdue University Fort Wayne

Individual Presentations

• A Justice Oriented Approach to Teacher Preparation: The UBTR - Suzanne Rosenblith, University at Buffalo, SUNY

• Modularization: Transforming Curriculum and Pedagogy - Julie Gorlewski, University at Buffalo, SUNY

• Collaborative Professionalism - Corrie Stone Johnson, University at Buffalo, SUNY

• Teacher Residency Summer Institute: Creating a shared narrative - Amanda Winkelsas, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Elisabeth Etopio, University at Buffalo, SUNY