"The things they carried" : a study of learning to teach across activity settings
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The study described here examines the practices of 7 beginning English-Language Arts teachers in two schools over the course of an academic year. The analysis of classroom observations and data on the preparation for teaching highlighted the elements of learning settings in both pre-service and in-service settings that supported appropriation of subject specific tools for teaching. The common features across settings that supported appropriation were a foundation of conceptual tools for teaching, the enactment or unpacking of practical tools through explicit modeling or collaboration, and opportunities to enact tools within and/or across learning settings. The study also highlighted the importance of the reinforcement of tools across settings for promoting not only appropriation of practices but depth of appropriation. The cases suggest that it was the features of the individual and overlapping settings for teacher learning such as the availability of models, norms around practical tools, opportunities to enact tools, and the access to these features across settings that best explain the teaching practice of these 7 teachers. The study reveals a more complicated and nuanced picture of the development of teaching practices across settings in which teachers learn to teach their subject matter. The findings suggest that in addition to considering how to better scaffold tool appropriation in their respective settings, teacher educators, professional developers, departmental leadership, and policy makers should work together to provide support for tool appropriation that spirals across settings.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Philipose, Sandy Mariam |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Darling-Hammond, Linda, 1951- |
| Thesis advisor | Darling-Hammond, Linda, 1951- |
| Thesis advisor | Grossman, Pamela L. (Pamela Lynn), 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Lotan, Rachel A |
| Advisor | Grossman, Pamela L. (Pamela Lynn), 1953- |
| Advisor | Lotan, Rachel A |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sandy Mariam Philipose. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the School of Education. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2010 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Sandy Mariam Philipose
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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