Cooperating Teachers

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Teacher education is the beginning of a career long process of professional development (Clarke 2007). The culmination of most teacher education undergraduate programs is the student teaching experience. During this period, the pre-service educator or student teacher begins what typically is the lengthiest amount of time spent in front of a class in the role as a teacher. The student teacher experiences all the day to day situations, hours, struggles, successes, and failures of being a practicing educator with actual students. Because of this expanded experience, student teaching is considered one of the most important aspects of the teacher education process (McIntyre, Byrd, & Foxx, 1996; Guyton & McIntyre, 1990). Deep within the student teaching process is the cooperating teacher. …show more content…

Clarke (2007) explains that three commonly accepted descriptions for cooperating teachers: classroom placeholder, supervisor of practica, and teacher educator. The classroom place holder participates very minimally with the student teacher. The place holder quickly pushes the student teacher in to the role of teacher and has little interaction with the student teacher. The next description is supervisor of practica. The cooperating teacher oversees what the student teacher is doing while teaching. The cooperating teacher observes, records, and reports the actions of the student teacher. Most of the interaction between the two parties is one directional as the cooperating teacher presents a blow by blow account of perceived successes and failures. The last description is that of teacher educator. The cooperating teacher is engaged in the class and with the student teacher. The cooperating teacher is working closely with the student teacher encouraging him or her to get the most out of each opportunity that is presented (MacKinnon & Erickson, 1988, in Clarke

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