"It's a Big Mystery, Isn't It?" Mitigating Placement Challenges with a Model of Student Teacher Placement Decision-Making

Autor/in	Parot-Juraska, Maribeth
Titel	"It's a Big Mystery, Isn't It?" Mitigating Placement Challenges with a Model of Student Teacher Placement Decision-Making
Quelle	(2009), (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Student Teaching; Student Teachers; Urban Schools; Placement; Educational Change; Models; Interviews; Decision Making; Federal Legislation; Teacher Education Programs; Cooperating Teachers; Principals; Teacher Attitudes; Administrator Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching practice; Unterrichtspraxis; Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Bildungsreform; Analogiemodell; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Bundesrecht; Co-operation; Cooperation; Teacher; Teachers; Kooperation; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Principal; Schulleiter; Lehrerverhalten
Abstract	This phenomenological study explores how external forces, internal motivations and environmental conditions may influence school personnel when considering placement requests. Seidman's three-stage interview process was implemented to conduct semi-structured interviews with five principals and five teachers in a large, urban school district. Four findings emerge that illustrate how cooperating schools/candidates encounter polarities in placement decision-making, including how student teacher placement appears less stable with NCLB mandates. A placement decision-making model is presented, framed by Waters, Marzano & McNulty's theories of first- and second-order change perceptions. As student teachers are not "highly qualified," an oxymoron faces principals and teachers in placement decisions--"highly qualified" and "student teacher." The research expands upon how Zeichner's views of "disconnect" and "opposing forces" occur in actual placement decision-making, versus exclusively in field experience conduction itself. Four recommendations are outlined for teacher preparation programs to mitigate placement challenges. The following is appended: (1) Placement requests: An Oxymoron Facing Cooperating Schools. (A diagram of Placement Requests: An Oxymoron Facing Cooperating Schools is appended. Contains 3 footnotes, 3 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10