Examines difficulties inherent in teaching prospective teachers to reflect on their practice, identifying important facets of the concept and presenting a typology designed to guide teacher educators in teaching reflection to preservice teachers. An example from the University of Washington's Teacher Education Program, in which reflective practice…

Examines the dynamic process of "recherche" on new teacher learning, presenting collaborative research as a shared quest for understanding by participant and researcher. Describes reflective, interpretive research and reveals how the life histories of three new teachers, provided via their reflections upon their first months of teaching,…

Demonstrates how a final year student teacher takes up a two-stage methodology for reflective practice generated from the principles of traditional literary theory and cultural studies, particularly poststructuralism. He produced a personal reading of his field experience documented as a picture book, and then a critically alternative (re)reading.…

Explains and illustrates the features of practical argument engagement, noting it is one way to understand why teachers do what they do. Observations, interviews, and dialogs with teachers illustrate that, by working with partners to examine actions occurring in their daily work, teachers can enhance their capacity for reflection, change beliefs…

Examined the role that support from the school and colleagues played as one teacher developed during his first year as a secondary English as a Second Language teacher in Singapore. Data from observations and interviews indicated that the teacher considered collegial support the most important school-based support during that first year. The paper…

Refers to a literature review on reflection, focusing on strategies that assist its development in preservice programs. The paper then outlines an Australian research project that defined and applied reflection to an analysis of student writing. A framework for types of reflection as a basis for further research development is proposed. (Author/SM)

This paper contends that a preservice course in school change must tap into practitioners' lived experiences, recommending a case-based learning experience where practitioners reflect critically on their own practice and develop a rationale for change. The paper examines key aspects of the change process, noting how the process should look. (SM)

Studied six intern teachers' reflections on past and future teaching experiences, noting the need for more emphasis on reflection to help prospective teachers look ahead as well as back. Themes emerging from interns' graphical and verbal descriptions of their internships were: discrepancy between anticipated and actual experience; reliance on…

Describes procedures used to model and integrate literacy strategies across several strands of a new Australian graduate program for preservice secondary school teachers, highlighting the literacy demands the program placed on English majors, discussing how a sample of English majors critically reviewed theory and practice during the course, and…

Three teams of prospective teachers created and presented school "portraits" based on research in an elementary school. Their stories revealed that each team moved from an external point of view to one situated in the actions of teaching. Their efforts to construct their own stories had a powerful impact on their knowledge, relationships…

This study used qualitative methodology to explore the professional development and changes in their practical theories of two student teachers in Australia during their third year of an undergraduate program as they began actual classroom experience at the primary level. The study identified interrelated factors impinging on student professional…

Describes a study which examined personal teaching metaphors developed by secondary teachers in a graduate course for improving understanding of relationships between teaching theory and practice and factors like school context, subject matter domain, personal history, and teaching experience. Case studies found several themes confirming prior…

Describes a model program to prepare teachers from midwestern liberal arts colleges for urban teaching careers. Student teachers come to Chicago and live together, student teaching in local urban schools and completing regular professional development and cultural diversity activities. Pre- and post-program interviews and essays indicate that the…

Discusses how co-teaching is useful for teaching important aspects of teaching to preservice educators, presenting an episode of masterful questioning from a study about teaching and learning in a science classroom co-taught by an experienced science teacher and a preservice teacher completing an internship. Their work suggests that preservice…

Describes a developmental framework constructed to portray different ways teachers express their vision of fostering elementary students' interpersonal competence and skills in classrooms. Presents a case study and details four developmental awareness dimensions that can help in studying how teachers view their roles when working with students on…