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Transforming Clinical Experiences Through Cultivating Faculty Buy-in: A Three-Year Journey at Two Urban Public Colleges (90831)
Session Chair: Maria Magdalena Contreras Turrubiartes
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Saturday, 14 June 2025 09:25
Session: Session 1
Room: Live-Stream Room 4
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
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This work describes a three-year period of transformation, exploration, and data-driven understanding aimed at improving the quality of the clinical experiences at teacher preparation programs at two urban public colleges. We developed a 3-year phase-segmented pilot study using a qualitative method of 200 participants from two college teacher preparation programs and public schools (K-12) in collaborative data-use practices. With instrumental assistance from a university-school partner coalition, US PREP, we used a coalition-driven developmental framework for structured interviews of focus groups composed of college faculty and teacher candidates and public-school faculty and administrators. We measured a framework for sustaining a partnership between colleges and public schools to work collaboratively to continually improve clinical experience preparation programs for the next generation of teachers. Findings indicated three important data sources essential for continuous improvement for both colleges: (1) quality improvement measures based on the Danielson Framework which foster a sustained partnership between higher education and P-12 schools; (2) a three-stage approach to formal teacher evaluation that includes a more structured data-driven approach to providing feedback to candidates; and (3) informal and formal progress monitoring of stakeholder feedback at regularly scheduled governance meetings that give school partners, administrators, and faculty a strategic method of analyzing our clinical experience and how we might improve outcomes. Our implication of practice exemplifies the need for teacher preparation programs to be grounded in well-supervised clinical practice, data-use practices for program improvement, core curriculum grounded in social and cultural contexts, and strong partnerships among public schools and colleges.
Authors:
Celestial Wills-Jackson, Herbert Lehman College, United States
Eleanor Miele, Brooklyn College, United States
Harriett Fayne, Herbert Lehman College, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Currently, Dr. Wills-Jackson is an Assistant Professor at Lehman College-CUNY and Program Coordinator for the Early Childhood & Childhood Education graduate program.
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