“…Regardless of where the resources are acquired, it is clear that engagement in lesson planning facilitates PSTs’ understanding and growth (Chai, Koh, & Tsai, 2010; Colvin & Tomayko, 2015). TEs can help PSTs develop the vocabulary, language, deep thinking, research, problem solving, and collaboration skills necessary to go from being passive consumers to well-informed information producers (Alvermann et al, 2015; Lapp, Fisher, Frey, & Gonzalez, 2014). To encourage this transformation, TEs can converse with PSTs to learn and to understand where they glean knowledge (Dredger, Myers, Sullivan, & Loveless, 2017; Loveless, Griffith, Berci, Ortleib, & Sullivan, 2014).…”