1st Edition
Partnership and Powerful Teacher Education Growth and Challenge in an Urban Neighborhood Program
This collaborative volume offers an in-depth portrait and valuable reference for the development of clinical or school-embedded partnerships in teacher preparation by drawing on the decades-long partnership between a university and set of schools in an urban neighborhood. In the midst of a national movement towards partnership-based clinical teacher education, this book explains and illustrates the roles, commitments, and collaborative practices that have evolved.
Divided into three parts, contributors outline the theory and practice of the clinical teacher preparation model and its neighborhood focus, covering topics such as:
- The social and institutional context of partnership development and teacher education;
- Key collaborative and learning practices;
- Challenges and questions that have emerged, and what can be learned from the experience.
Written with voices of university faculty, school educators, program graduates, and students from partner schools, Thomas Del Prete offers a volume perfect for those looking to be inspired by an example of clinical teacher education and partnership in an urban community and to learn what can be achieved with conviction and perseverance over time.
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Partnership and Powerful Teacher Education
- Partnership and Social Context: Shifting the Historical Pattern
- Growing a Partnership: Questions, Development, and Challenges
- The Clinical Program Model
- Inquiring Collaboratively in Classrooms: Teacher Rounds
- Talking About and Teaching Hard History Together
- Creating a Hybrid Space for Learning: The On-Site Seminar in a Secondary School
- Embracing the Not Yet: Emerging Teacher Voices in the Elementary On-Site Seminar
- Learning Together in the Disciplines: The Science Curriculum Team
- Learning With Each Other: A Teacher Book Study Group
- Double Agent: Being Teacher and Teacher Educator
- Learning from and with Students in their Community
- Leveraging Partnership Research in Teacher Education
- Lessons, Challenges, and Questions
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Part I: Social Context and Partnership Development
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Part II: Clinical, Collaborative, and Contextual Teaching and Learning Practices
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Raphael E. Rogers
Heather Roberts
Carmen Ocón
Letina Jeranyama
Holly Dolan
Kyle Alexandra Pahigian
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Jie Y. Park
Part III: Lessons, Challenges, and Questions
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Appendices
Appendix I Curriculum Unit Plan Guidelines
Appendix II Sample Teacher Rounds and Round Sheets
Appendix III Partnership Curriculum Team Guidelines
Appendix IV Sample Partnership Agreement
Appendix V The Professor of Practice Role
Appendix VI Teacher Book Study Group Reading List
Biography
Thomas Del Prete is Director of the Adam Institute for Urban Teaching and School Practice as well as the Master of Arts in Teaching program. He has been working on developing the multi-school partnership with the teacher education faculty of Clark University for twenty-five years.
A very thought provoking account of the continuing development over more than twenty-five years of one of the most interesting school-university partnerships in teacher education in the U.S. that is focused in an urban neighborhood in Worcester MA. This book, written by both school and university teacher educators, deals with both the successes and challenges of doing this difficult work and is essential reading for those who are interested in creating a new more democratic future for university teacher education.
- Ken Zeichner
Boeing Professor of Teacher Education Emeritus, University of Washington
In this incredible book we all take a long and fascinating journey in coming to understand how the building of community between higher education, schools, and students in an urban neighborhood develops. In my fifty years in education, this story is the first I have ever read that documents…how a true partnership in an urban community gets built over time. This is a must read for all who care about the important possibilities of what it takes to educate great teachers who represent their communities and their students in a genuine partnership.
- Ann Lieberman, Senior Scholar, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, emerita professor from Teachers College, Columbia University, author of Teaching, Learning, and Living: Joining Practice and Research (Routledge)
This highly masterful book, informed by a quarter century of experience and reflection, paints a picture of the craft and complexity of developing high quality teachers while galvanizing a university, an urban school system and a disadvantaged neighborhood to make common cause for children. The authors, who speak from their experience on the front lines of urban education, provide very useful guidance not only on refining the practice of teaching and teacher development but on using the vehicle of partnership to enrich teaching and learning for all involved.
- Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Founding Director of the Education Redesign Lab; former, Massachusetts Secretary of Education
Partnership and Powerful Teacher Education provides a vision of university and partner schools working in community to deepen and strengthen learning for local students and for teachers. Educators, policy makers, school administrators, and teachers, as well as community leaders, interested in working in partnership will find this work not only motivating, but also refreshingly practical.
- Karen Hammerness, Director of Educational Research and Evaluation, The American Museum of Natural History, co-editor of Inspiring Teaching: Preparing Teachers to Succeed in Mission-Driven Schools
