To better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted pre-service teachers' development of self-efficacy beliefs, two cohorts of pre-service teachers were studied. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, the development of teacher self-efficacy beliefs was examined. One cohort facilitated an in-person reading remediation to students…

Decision-making is essential for the work of teaching. Preservice teachers must learn to leverage knowledge about young readers' strengths, needs, and interests in order to plan and teach guided reading lessons skillfully. However, limited research examines preservice teachers' decision-making based on what they know about individual children. In…

Education majors at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo are primarily English speaking only and need guidance in strategies for adapting instruction for a variety of levels of second language acquisition students. This project addressed the problem of a lack of sufficient preparation of undergraduate students to participate…