Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2013

Publication Title

Teacher Education and Practice

Volume

26

Issue

3

Abstract

In this article, we describe our innovative work as teacher educators to integrate coursework for alternatively certified teachers. Rather than maintain boundaries among individual courses for new elementary teachers, explicit connections support first-year teachers' professional learning and aid in the immediate application to classroom practice. Ccurse integration included backward planning with shared goals, the combination of key topics and content, and the inccrporation of common assignments and related classroom tasks. The innovation reflects the function of collaboration in higher education, where teacher educators work together to improve the professional learning and performance cf classroom teachers.

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Author Posting. © Scarecrow Press Inc., 2013. This article is posted here by permission of Rowman & Littlefield. All rights rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or printed without permission in writing from Rowman & Littlefield.

The article was published in Teacher Education and Practice, Volume 26, Issue 3, 2013.

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