The Cooperating Teacher: An Ambivalent Participant in Student Teaching
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Teacher Education
- Vol. 43 (1), 46-56
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002248719204300107
Abstract
Although the cooperating teacher is vital to student teaching, little has appeared in the professional literature about being a cooperating teacher. Journals of eight experienced elementary teachers who supervised student teachers were the primary data source for this study. Inductive analyses revealed several consequences of having student teachers: interruption of instruction, teacher displacement, disruption of classroom routine, breaking teachers' isolation, and shifting of the teachers' time and energy. These findings challenge assumptions about field-based teacher education programs.Keywords
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