Clinical Teacher Education

A volume in Readings in Educational ThoughtSeries Editors Andrew J. Milson Chara Haeussler BohanPerry L. Glanzer and J. Wesley NullClinical Teacher Education focuses on how to build a school-university partnership network for clinical teacher educationin urban school systems serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The labor intensive nature ofprofessional development school work has resulted in research institutions being slow to fully adopt a clinical teachereducation Professional Development School (PDS) network approach across the entirety of their teacher preparationprograms. Faculty have often been hesitant to commit to such models in light of the demands of institutional expectationsof publish or perish. In this book faculty researchers and administrators from academia and from public schools involvedin a clinical teacher education PDS network discuss their commitment to collaborative clinical teacher preparation anddevelopment and to inquiry in PDS initiatives in urban schools. Clinical Teacher Education serves as an in-depth analysisof the strengths and challenges of establishing school-university networks in metropolitan environments.Many experienced and noteworthy authors contributed to Clinical Teacher Education. The authors hold various administrative and faculty positions in both universityand public school settings. In addition to editors Chara Bohan and Joyce Many chapter authors include Mary Ariail Gwen Benson Lin Black Donna Breault WilliamCurlette Kezia McNeal Curry Julie Dangel Mary Deming Caitline Dooley Joe Feinberg Teresa Fisher Lou Matthews August Ogletree Susan Ogletree LauraSmith Susan Swars Dee Taylor and Brian Williams.In addition the chapters address a host of issues that arise when working in a large urban school-university clinical teacher education network. Nine chapters include thefollowing topics: Chapter 1 Understanding the Complexities Inherent in Large Scale Implementation of the PDS Model by an Urban Research Institution Chapter 2Professional Development Schools: History Development and Content Research Chapter 3 The Work andInsights of Professional Development School Boundary Spanners Chapter 4 Possibilities for Clinical TeacherEducation: Four Stories of Field-based Courses Taught at Professional Development School Sites Chapter 5Examining PDS Partnerships with Survey Items: Assessing Perception of Fidelity of Implementation Using theNCATE PDS Standards Chapter 6 Integrating Inquiry in Clinical Teacher Education Initiatives Across a PDSNetwork Chapter 7 An Approach to Increasing Student Achievement: Teacher-Intern-Professor Groups withAnchor Action Research Chapter 8 Making a Difference in Teacher Development and High Quality Teachingand Chapter 9 Partnership Building in a Context of Change.