"Affordances in the third space" is a concept that can improve teacher education and inspires supervisory innovations that can be empirically studied. An intentionally designed hyperdocument workspace fostered collaboration among the university supervisor and classroom mentor teacher and shifted the clinical environment in favor of…

Paula Lane, who has supervised student teachers at a university in the suburban wine country of northern California for the past 12 years, describes a field experience with a group of new student teachers in an urban school. Like the majority of teacher candidates in education programs, the pre-service teacher education students were White and…