Anne M. Butler, Barbara S. Rieckhoff, Roxanne F. Owens, Jordan Humphrey
{"title":"Strengthening Teacher Residencies for Paraprofessionals in Special Education: Building Identity from Within","authors":"Anne M. Butler, Barbara S. Rieckhoff, Roxanne F. Owens, Jordan Humphrey","doi":"10.1177/00224871251364265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251364265","url":null,"abstract":"There is a chronic, persistent shortage of fully licensed special educators. Teacher residencies in special education offer a path to address this shortage, and Special Education Classroom Assistants, (SECAs), are a unique subset to recruit into residencies. SECAs bring their own prior experiences and knowledge into the residency classroom. The purpose of this paper is to examine SECAs’ funds of knowledge, how they connect this knowledge to their self-identity and how they use these as they develop teacher identity. This study utilized two focus groups, with a total of 14 participating SECA residents. Focus group data were collected and analyzed to better understand the developing identities of SECAs. Based on the findings from focus groups, we identified three themes and subthemes, related to their funds of knowledge and self-identity. We discuss implications and future research related to teacher residencies, special education teacher residencies, and teacher preparation.","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marisa Olivo, Karen Hammerness, Jamie Wallace, Rosamond Kinzler, Linda Curtis-Bey
{"title":"Expanding the “Field” in Fieldwork: Fostering an Equity-Oriented Science Teacher Identity Across Three Museum- and School-Based Experiences in an Urban Teacher Residency","authors":"Marisa Olivo, Karen Hammerness, Jamie Wallace, Rosamond Kinzler, Linda Curtis-Bey","doi":"10.1177/00224871251363956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251363956","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research finds that a longer clinical experience may be one of the most substantial distinguishing features of teacher residency programs. We need to understand much more about how these field experiences are designed, paced, and scaffolded to contribute to teacher learning and identity development and to center equity. Drawing from case study data embedded in a large comparative study of innovative teacher preparation programs, including observations, document analysis, and interviews, this paper explores how a science teacher residency program expanded fieldwork experiences to include three different settings for teacher learning. It explores how those three fieldwork experiences are paced, how they cohere around a theory of change, and the ways they gradually build content knowledge and learning experiences. Together, experiences in these three “fields” contribute to teachers’ deeper learning of science practices and science content and foster an identity as an equity-oriented teacher of science.","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paired for Success: Enhancing the Teacher Residency Experience Through Intentional Mentor-Mentee Matching","authors":"Laura Eicher, Virginia Clark, Christy Brown","doi":"10.1177/00224871251364268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251364268","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the influence of personality-based matching in mentor-mentee pairings within a teacher residency program. Using the Big Five Personality traits, we investigated whether personality similarity and perceived similarity within mentor teacher (MT) and teacher resident (TR) dyads are associated with satisfaction in the mentoring partnership. Findings indicate that perceived similarity significantly enhances satisfaction, and when MT-TR pairs share at least one dominant Big Five personality trait, satisfaction with the match further increases. In addition, TRs report higher satisfaction when paired with MTs whose dominant personality trait is agreeableness, characterized by interpersonal warmth and collaboration. These results underscore the importance of considering personality traits in formal matching processes, providing actionable insights for residency program administrators. Intentional personality-based pairings may enhance the quality of mentoring relationships, fostering greater collaboration, communication, and support, contributing to improved mentoring outcomes and teacher development.","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sharon Chang, Sibel Akin-Sabuncu, Laura Vernikoff, Colleen Horn, A. Lin Goodwin
{"title":"Unpacking Urban Teaching Residents’ Mental Constructs: Supporting the Professional Identity Development of Teachers of Color","authors":"Sharon Chang, Sibel Akin-Sabuncu, Laura Vernikoff, Colleen Horn, A. Lin Goodwin","doi":"10.1177/00224871251363951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251363951","url":null,"abstract":"When teachers of color professionalize their teaching, they encounter tensions between their personal and professional identities, causing dissonances. This study examined 36 teaching residents of color and their professional identity development in one northeastern urban teacher residency (UTR) program in the United States. We used narrative research to explore how participants constructed themselves as teachers in their stories. We analyzed program archival data through the lens of <jats:italic>perezhivanie</jats:italic> , a mental model that individuals establish to resolve dissonances. Narrative analyses of admissions essays, interviews, journals, and autobiographies revealed that participants’ personal histories inform their equity pedagogy. Specifically, participants constructed their own professional identities in the UTR program via cultural filters shaped by their life experiences being historically minoritized, particularly to (a) develop their teacher-selves to construct practical knowledge and (b) transform their personal-selves to foster equity pedagogy. The implications for supporting the professional identity development of teachers of color are discussed.","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victoria Theisen-Homer, Jessica Manzone, Thomas J. Weaver
{"title":"An Unexplored Bond: K–8 Learners’ Reflections on Their Classroom Relationships With Urban Teacher Residents","authors":"Victoria Theisen-Homer, Jessica Manzone, Thomas J. Weaver","doi":"10.1177/00224871251363949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251363949","url":null,"abstract":"As teacher residencies have expanded over the last 20 years, so has research on these innovative programs. But there is currently limited research on how residencies approach teacher–student relationship development and no research from the perspectives of the K–12 students residents serve. This article features interviews with 118 K–8 students in classrooms with residents who were intentionally prepared by an Urban Teacher Residency (UTR) that centralizes relationship development. Findings suggest that students experience academic and social benefits because of the resident, including more one-on-one support, responsive and motivating relationships, a positive classroom environment, and improved learning experience. Implications support the argument for the residency year, responsive and relational teaching, and the need to include students as a core stakeholder teacher education research.","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Moves: Use of the Gradual Increase of Responsibility Model for Mentoring Student Teachers in Residency","authors":"Vicki S. Collet, Savannah Gragg, Amanda Leggett","doi":"10.1177/00224871251364263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251364263","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching residencies offer opportunities for sustained support within schools as a liminal space for novice teachers, and school-based mentor teachers significantly impact residency outcomes. Mentoring improves when mentors have clear expectations for their role and support for meeting those expectations. This mixed-method case study investigates the effects of a model for mentor training, its impact on residents’ learning, and the perceptions of mentors and residents regarding support provided. Quantitative findings showed a statistically significant difference in growth for residents whose mentors were trained in the Gradual Increase of Responsibility mentoring model compared with those who were not. Qualitative analysis offers support for differentiated use of the mentoring moves of modeling, recommending, questioning, affirming, and praising (with this sequence expressing de-escalating levels of support). Findings suggest that when mentoring varies based on residents’ differing and changing skill levels, teaching improves. Centering dialogue in mentor/resident interactions supports change and growth.","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144905778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preview of Two New AACTE Publications","authors":"Jacqueline E. King, Chen-Su Chen","doi":"10.1177/00224871251366349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251366349","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"333-336"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Larissa Aust, Jeanne-Celine Linker, Luise Eichholz, Jana Schiffer, Marcus Nührenbörger, Christoph Selter, Elmar Souvignier
{"title":"Implementing Formative Assessment Into School Practice: A Matter of Structuring the Intervention?","authors":"Larissa Aust, Jeanne-Celine Linker, Luise Eichholz, Jana Schiffer, Marcus Nührenbörger, Christoph Selter, Elmar Souvignier","doi":"10.1177/00224871251350680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251350680","url":null,"abstract":"Only limited evidence exists on how to best make the effective yet broad concept of formative assessment (FA) accessible to teachers. Thus, this study investigated the effects of two differently structured FA approaches (curriculum-embedded assessment [CE] vs. planned-for-interaction assessment [PI]) on implementation outcomes over time. A total of <jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 118 mathematics teachers participated in a six-session professional development program offered over one school year and implemented one of the two approaches in their classrooms. Implementation success was assessed via teachers’ self-reports. Hierarchical linear models for repeated measurement revealed higher ratings for CE for the initial phase of implementation. Over time, differences between the approaches decreased for feasibility and cooperation, but remained quite constant in terms of acceptability, fidelity and perceived learning outcome. The approaches did not significantly differ regarding sustainability. Thus, for implementing FA, it seems worthwhile to provide teachers with clear guidelines and an explicit structure.","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144594495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It Changed Continuously, and I Don’t Know When”: Thai Preservice Biology Teachers’ Orientations to Teaching Science","authors":"Luecha Ladachart, Ladapa Ladachart","doi":"10.1177/00224871251344913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251344913","url":null,"abstract":"This research examines changes in orientations to teaching science among 37 preservice biology teachers, who primarily intend to work in secondary education, during a 5-year program of science teacher education in Thailand. Data were collected twice, in the first and fourth years of the program, using the same Pedagogy of Science Teaching Test, in which participants quantitatively chose their preferred approaches to instruction, while qualitatively providing the reasons for choosing these instructional approaches in a written format. Quantitative data were analyzed using inferential statistics, whereas qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis. The results indicate that participants’ orientations toward inquiry-based instruction improved, primarily due to their understanding of the nature of students’ learning. This result supports the idea that conceptions relating to students’ learning are critical in shaping orientations toward teaching science. Experiences that reinforced inquiry-based orientations to teaching science are discussed based on follow-up interviews with the five participants with the highest improvements.","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144328813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kennedy Kam Ho Chan, Jianyun She, Jan van Driel, Xiang Hu
{"title":"Does Teacher Noticing Matter for Students’ Science Content Learning Outcomes? Evidence From a Large-Scale Empirical Study","authors":"Kennedy Kam Ho Chan, Jianyun She, Jan van Driel, Xiang Hu","doi":"10.1177/00224871251336875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251336875","url":null,"abstract":"Although teacher noticing is regarded as a critical component of teacher expertise that matters for student learning, empirical evidence verifying the relationship between teacher noticing and student learning outcomes is scare. Using a relatively large-scale sample involving 189 middle school biology teachers from 156 schools and their students ( <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 7,086), this quantitative study investigated the association between teachers’ level of noticing, measured by a standardized video-based instrument, and student achievement. An analysis utilizing two-level hierarchical linear modeling revealed a significant and positive association between teachers’ level of noticing and student learning outcomes. Specifically, the proportion of variance explained was 0.383. Our study offers robust and timely evidence that verifies the core assumption underpinning teacher noticing research as well as professional development efforts focusing on teacher noticing. Implications for teacher noticing research and teacher professional development are discussed.","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144153937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}