ERIC Number: EJ1261514
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1933-4850
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Using a Professional Learning Community Framework to Assist Early Field Experience Students as They Move from Teacher Candidate to Teacher
Nielsen, Curtis P.; Lockhart, Amy K.
InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, v15 p52-66 2020
Collaboration is rapidly becoming sacrosanct in today's K-12 schools. A basis for these collaborative school experiences is the ability to share one's observations of classroom activities. The Professional Learning Community (PLC) framework described here is a pedagogically based process that provides opportunities for Early Field Experience students to share their field involvements. The discussions are born from the teacher candidates' experiential learning as they take part in a 25-hour field placement. Providing teacher candidates with weekly PLC opportunities for sharing, simultaneously, has assisted teacher candidates' dispositional and pedagogical decision making as they make the transition from student to teacher.
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Field Experience Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Cooperative Learning, Inquiry, Group Discussion, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques, Motivation, Questioning Techniques
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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