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ERIC Number: EJ838786
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Jun
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1871-1502
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Tough Transitions? Mediating Beginning Urban Teachers' Practices through Coteaching
Wassell, Beth; LaVan, Sarah Kate
Cultural Studies of Science Education, v4 n2 p409-432 Jun 2009
The coteaching model for teacher preparation has emerged in recent years as an alternative to the traditional student teaching or practicum experience. Several studies have investigated the process of coteaching and its impact on participants during the actual experience; however, few depict participants' experiences once they obtain positions and begin to teach independently. This collective case study explored two urban high school teachers' (Jen and Ian) practices during the induction period after taking part in the coteaching model for student teaching. Using a sociocultural analytic framework, we found that the participants' agency as beginning teachers was not constrained by their coteaching experiences. Rather, they were able to continue to draw on some of the successful practices they had in coteaching, such as shared reflection, shared responsibility, cogenerative dialogues, and building relationships with students. In addition to describing the coherence and contradictions between Ian's and Jen's practices during coteaching and in their beginning years of inservice teaching, we also discuss the ways that they became collaborators in our ethnographic research.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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