State and national accountability measures for teachers and administrators have made districts reluctant to accept teacher candidates for clinical or fieldwork experience in the traditional take-over model. Difficulty placing teacher candidates in the field prompted the School of Education at Richard Stockton College to research innovative student teaching models in order to strengthen clinical partnerships with P-12 school districts. Prior studies of co-teaching for student teachers from St. Cloud State University showed that this model provided many benefits to the teacher candidate and cooperating teacher, as well as notable gains in student achievement. That research inspired this pilot study in New Jersey. The pilot study identified coteaching strengths in professionalism, teaching time, student learning and cooperating teacher growth, with implications for strengthening future research.
Reform efforts in teacher education have established school-university partnerships that link teachers' professional development with preservice preparation in order to merge more forcefully educational theory and practice. Collaborative approaches, developed to facilitate the work of classroom teachers and special education teachers can be of great help to general education student teachers and their mentors who teach in professional development school settings. These authors define specific collaborative teaching approaches for student teachers and mentors to enable them to make more informed decisions about how and when to use collaborative teaching experiences to better meet the needs of their P-12 students. We examine models of collaborative teaching and relate them to the shared roles of mentors and student teachers in designing, communicating, and monitoring instruction. We also include examples of how these models work in elementary and secondary classrooms.
ABSTRACTUNC-45A is an ubiquitously expressed protein highly conserved throughout evolution. Most of what we currently know about UNC-45A pertains to its role as a regulator of the actomyosin system...