Traditionally, student teaching has involved the pairing of one teacher candidate (intern) with one experienced classroom teacher (clinical teacher). Gradually, the intern takes on more and more responsibility in the […]
11.13.2014
The Senior Year Internship is a required clinical experience for teacher education majors at East Carolina University. It is a two-semester experience within a public school classroom, under the mentorship […]
11.11.2014
In small teacher preparation programs, the issue of implementation and scale-up of using a standardized performance assessment, like edTPA, can be challenging. Peck and McDonald (2013) found one of the […]
11.7.2014
With edTPA implementations growing nationwide, it is imperative that teacher preparation programs explore meaningful ways to feed that data back to faculty for program and unit improvement. Key to this […]
11.5.2014
All new teachers need a toolbox full of high leverage practices to draw upon as they enter their first classrooms. Candidates in Elementary Education, Middle Grades Education and Special Education […]
11.3.2014
The fall 2013 issue of ECU’s East magazine featured the Co-Teaching initiative in the ECU College of Education as an exciting and innovative new practice, “A New Model for Student […]
10.31.2014