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Providing Preservice Teachers With an Extended Opportunity to Approximate Ambitious Instruction

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ID4306609
AuthorsDavid Stroupe (0000-0002-3471-0049, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, corresponding author), Amelia Wenk Gotwals (0000-0002-7907-8649, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA)
Year2018
Volume69
Issue3
Pages294-306
Publication date2018-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Teacher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4871 • E-ISSN: 1552-7816
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022487117709742
OpenAlexW2618752701
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited36

Teacher educators have a challenging task of designing opportunities for preservice teachers (PSTs) to learn ambitious science teaching (AST). However, with limited time in methods courses and the complexities of AST, opportunities for PSTs to "try out" ambitious instruction are difficult to construct and analyze. To address this problem, we describe our enactment of a type of extended pedagogical rehearsal that we call "macroteaching" in a secondary science methods course. Framed as a design experiment, we codeveloped macroteaching with the PSTs during methods class, examining how we all learned about AST given the extended learning opportunity. The results of this study, including that PSTs are not afraid of the uncertainty about what students might say and do, suggest that extended rehearsals of AST provide PSTs and the course instructors with opportunities to advance their teaching and vision of the profession in a methods class

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