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Clinical field experiences are essential components of teacher education programs. Though largely missing from most teacher education programs, cross-cultural field experiences aid teacher development by broadening their perspectives of diversity, teaching, and learning. This chapter explores the experiences of both preservice and in-service teachers who participated in a four-week intensive field experience in Cambridge, England. The Cambridge Schools Experience (CSE) curriculum emphasizes: 1) noticing and naming literacy practices, 2) deepening understandings of literacy teaching and learning, 3) being responsive in the moment, and 4) being a collaborative educator. Along with findings from the study, we discuss the program structure, as well as barriers to implementation and suggestions for overcoming those barriers to ensure program longevity.

Identity formation in undergraduate teacher preparation programs is often challenging for teacher candidates. Future teachers sometimes find themselves in tension-filled situations where university preparation program practices contradict expectations of elementary school internships or their beliefs about teaching children. Often, teacher candidates are relegated to two choices: conform to the internship context, survive, or resist and risk potential denial to the system towards which they feel dissonance . This chapter shows how two teacher candidates in a two-year full-time teacher residency preparation program felt dissonance towards their internship setting mentor teachers and how they leveraged the structure of their university program to advance their teaching status in those contexts. Through scapegoating the literacy content coach and coaching cycle, Megan and Natalie impacted children's learning experiences and their teacher identities.

Charcot Neuroarthropaty (CN) is a complication of diabetes with devastating consequences as it produces severe deformities in the foot developing in recurrent ulcers that rise the probability of amputation. There are several diseases mentioned in the literature that have to be considered for the differential diagnosis of CN, often related to the acute phase (gout, ankle sprain, inflammatory arthritis, cellulitis, venous thrombosis) but there is paucity of information related to the differential diagnosis in later stages (coalescence, remodeling) when there is deformity of the foot. Clinicians and diabetologists are not familiarized with orthopedic pathology and do not have in mind certain diseases that could mimic CN in the subacute or chronic phases and this can develop in a wrong diagnosis. It is important to make a correct diagnosis in patients with suspected CN not only in the acute phase but also in the chronic phase to establish an accurate treatment. This article is a review of the differential diagnosis of CN in subacute and chronic phases showing similarities and differences that can help clinicians and diabetologists to make an accurate diagnosis and treatment. We describe unusual diseases like tendon and muscles disorders, Frieberg's disease, complex pain regional syndrome, transient regional osteoporosis and osteomyelitis superimposed to CN and the main features of each one that could help in making a differential diagnosis