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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Aspiring teachers turn to video
By Meredith A. Riddle
Categories: Career pathways, Fundamentals, Implementation, Learning designs, Online learning, TechnologyDecember 2020
Vol. 41, No. 6
Teacher education programs are critical for preparing aspiring teachers to enter the classroom as well as for increasing the number of qualified teachers in the educators’ pipeline to address the teacher shortage in the U.S. However, when COVID-19 hit, teacher education programs were severely impacted just like K-12 schools across the nation and world. The business of school was no longer business as usual. When a stay-at-home order closed New Jersey schools in spring 2020, teacher candidates were shut out of the schools where they had hoped to practice teaching. The colleges providing teacher candidates with the programs needed for licensure began to grapple with the idea that, for the first time, teacher interns would not be able to finish their observation hours inside a
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10 high-leverage teaching practices
| Practices taught the first six months | Practices taught the last six months |
| 1. Making content (e.g. specific texts, problems, ideas, theories, processes) explicit through explanation, modeling, representations, and examples. | 6. Setting up and managing small-group work.
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| 2. Leading a whole-class discussion. | 7. Engaging in strategic relationship-building conversations with student. |
| 3. Eliciting and interpreting individual student’s thinking. | 8. Designing a sequence of lessons toward a specific learning goal. |
| 4. Establishing norms and routines for classroom discourse and work that are central to the subject-matter domain. | 9. Providing oral and written feedback to students on their work. |
| 5. Teaching a lesson or segment of instruction. | 10. Communicating with a student’s parent or guardian. |
Source: Shaughnessy & Forzani, 2012.
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Meredith Riddle (mamiller@monmouth.edu) is director of Provisional Teacher Programs, adjunct faculty member at the School of Education, Monmouth University, and a social studies teacher in Long Branch Public Schools.
Categories: Career pathways, Fundamentals, Implementation, Learning designs, Online learning, Technology
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