In 2010, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) called for colleges and universities to "turn teacher education upside down" (pg. 2) and focus on clinical experiences, rather than coursework. This charge resulted in major shifts in teacher education programs in the USA as colleges and universities forged new…

Early in 2016, the Council on Accreditation of Educator Providers (CAEP) (caepnet.org, 2016) published a new set of standards that called for increased collaboration of university-school partners by means of coconstruction clinical experiences. In designing the new models, pre-service co-teaching, conducted by the teacher candidate and…

This self-study examined the communication approaches of 15 university supervisors who oversaw teacher candidates enrolled in year-long, co-taught P-12 clinical experiences. Supervisors attended 20 hours of professional learning on pre-service co-teaching, developmental supervision, and instructional coaching. Findings indicated that our…

Teacher preparation programs on a national level have been called to change, focusing on clinical practice as a primary focus of teacher education rather than course work. Concurrently, performance based assessment is becoming the tool to measure candidate capacity to plan and instruct. This study highlights one teacher education program and the…