Teacher education is in the midst of a national shift toward clinically centered teacher preparation, answering recent calls from professional associations, scholarly and policy reports, and accreditation agencies. This model of educator preparation centers efforts in clinical or school-based settings--rather than in university-based…

The purpose of this systematic literature review was to understand the scope of research investigating perceptions of teachers educating students with disabilities. We documented the factors related to teacher perceptions of preparedness for successfully educating students with disabilities as well as the extent to which these factors were role or…

Recent policy and scholarly reports, accreditation agencies' guidelines, and professional association efforts have called for teacher preparation programs to incorporate more frequent and rigorous clinical experiences. Directing three elementary and secondary education programs in two states, we recognized that one reason they--and perhaps other…