Supporting student teachers in learning to teach is a collaborative effort by mentor teachers, teacher education supervisors, and student teachers. Each of the participants appraises effort and progress in learning to teach from different perspectives, however. This study explores how practice lessons are assessed by multiple raters. Teacher…

This article describes a new student teaching element introduced in the Netherlands in which student teachers act on their own during a three-month practicum, with no classroom observation incorporated into supervision. Also discusses short-term learning outcomes (as perceived by student teachers and their supervisors) of this effort to increase…