Supporting Clinical Practice Through Rehearsals

Abstract

Rehearsing is a form of pedagogy in teacher education to prepare pre-service teachers with instructional practices before live enactments in a classroom. This qualitative study used grounded theory to explore how rehearsals impacted five elementary literacy courses in a university teacher education program. Data comprised of prolonged observations, video recordings of rehearsals, and surveys. The process of coding and re-coding resulted in findings that reflect rehearsing provided Teacher Candidates with confidence with lesson presentation,

Disrupting the Deficit Gaze: Equity Work with University Supervisors

“…We wanted our supervisors to practice what they could say and do to support our candidates seeking help in this area. Rehearsing is a strategy used to enhance the preparation of teachers (Javeed, 2019;Kazemi et al, 2016;Lampert, 2010) across subjects. At the core of "rehearsals", teachers prepare a lesson, practice teaching it with and/or to peers, receive feedback, and then collectively analyze the success of the lesson with all participants.…”