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Coteaching praxis and professional service: facilitating the transition of beliefs and practices

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Coteaching is an effective structure for the pre-service practicum as it immerses student teachers in the culture of the school and helps them to learn by working closely at the elbows of their mentor teacher. The collaborative nature of the model fosters beliefs and practices based on shared perspectives and coresponsibility for the quality of the learning environment. Cogenerative dialogues with students insure the inclusion of their voice in the collaboration and foster increased emotional energy and classroom solidarity. The work by Wassell and LaVan (2009) fills an important void in our research on coteaching as it seeks to understand which practices and beliefs survive the transition to professional service. While both teachers included cogenerative dialogues in their interactions with students, we suggest that the reflective practices of a single teacher are qualitatively different from reflections based on the dynamic interactions of multiple adults’ coteaching together. We explore strategies that will help administrators and school staff find the human and material resources needed to staff the multiple teacher classroom. Our comments on this paper are informed by our experiences as the academic coordinator and mentor teacher of the learning community in which Jen and Ian completed their pre service practicum and are meant help disseminate this model to as many educational environments as possible.

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El Coteaching es una estructura eficaz para la practica antes del servicio profesional, porque esto sumerge los estudiantes de maestría en la cultura de la escuela y los ayuda a aprender trabajando estrechamente “a los codos” de su profesor consejero. La naturaleza de colaboración del modelo fomenta creencia y prácticas basadas en perspectivas compartidas y co-responsabilidad por la calidad del ambiente de aprendizaje. Los diálogos-cogenerativos con estudiantes aseguran la inclusión de voces estudiantiles en la colaboración y aumentan la energía emocional y la solidaridad del aula. El trabajo por Wassell y Lavan llena un vacío importante en nuestra investigaciones sobre coteaching porque trata de entender qué prácticas y creencias sobreviven la transición al servicio profesional. Mientras ambos estudiantes de maestría fueron capaces de incluir diálogos-cogenerativos en sus interacciones con estudiantes, sugerimos que las prácticas reflexivas de un profesor solo son cualitativamente diferentes de reflexiones basadas en las interacciones dinámicas de varios adultos enseñando juntos. Exploramos estrategias que ayudarán a administradores y personal escolar encontrar los recursos humanos y materiales necesarios para proveer la aula con varios profesores. Nuestros comentarios sobre este papel son informados por nuestras experiencias como las de el profesor consejero y coordinadora académica de la comunidad en la cual Jen e Ian completaron su practica, y son escritas con la intención de diseminar este modelo a tantos ambientes educativos como posible.

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Carambo, C., Stickney, C.T. Coteaching praxis and professional service: facilitating the transition of beliefs and practices. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 4, 433–441 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-008-9148-3

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