Teaching pre-service teachers

[Barbara Braxton <barbara@AUSTARMETRO.COM.AU>]

In the Australian system of teacher education, student teachers spend an
ever-increasing block of time in classrooms on 'prac' working up to an
10-week internship in their 4th year - or a variation thereof depending on
the state or institution.  They cannot graduate without having successfully
completed this and, generally, you cannot be employed as a teacher in
Australian schools without this component of supervised prac in your
degrees.  (Of course there are exceptions and each state ed department has a
qualifications officer who deals with the tricky stuff.)

Do you have a similar system in the US?  If you do would it be possible to
talk to the institutions and see if some library experience (collaborative
planning and teaching of a unit, for instance) could become a mandatory part
of that prac?  It might go some way towards addressing the issue of
pre-service teachers not having a schmick and so the war of advocacy is
perpetuated.

I have to admit that I have been lobbying for this for ages here but have
not got anywhere - some student teachers come and go without even having set
foot in the RC.  And because I teach the class while their associate
teachers plan with them and their teams, they don't even come with the
class.

Somewhere amongst all the suggestions there has to be a solution or three
that we could work on.
Barbara

Barbara Braxton
Teacher-Librarian
Palmerston District Primary School
PALMERSTON ACT 2913
AUSTRALIA

T. 61 2 6205 6162
F. 61 2 6205 7242
E. barbara@austarmetro.com.au
W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au

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