Teacher Education
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Item 2021-2022: Year of the Pandemic(Consortium of State Organizations for Texas Teacher Education (CSOTTE), 2022) Fredrickson, RebeccaAt the close of the 2021 CSOTTE conference, I had the opportunity to reflect upon what the experience meant to me. The fact that we were once again permitted to gather together--in the same room with Covid 19 social distancing preference color coordinated lanyards--was something marvelous I never in my wildest academic dreams ever thought would be something so treasured. It never dawned on me that people (especially educators) would not always be able to easily gather together to grow and learn. This is something that I will not take for granted again.Item Finding opportunities outside the academy to enhance student learning: A paper on practice(College of Education & Applied Human Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University, 2018) Fredrickson, Rebecca; Dunlap, Karen; McMahan, Sarah K.; Hurlbut, AmandaA recent trend in higher education is the concept of giving authentic experiences to students. A report in the Washington Post found that college graduates were greatly lacking necessary career readiness skills including decision-making, prioritization, time management, and problem solving (Selingo, 2015) needed for entry into the professional job market. Additional research noted students often have difficulty bridging theory to practice and transferring skills from one situation to another (Gordon, 2007). This paper highlights the work of one southwestern university Teacher Education program as they addressed such concerns. Program faculty looked for opportunities to utilize pedagogical expertise outside the academy walls as they guide preservice teacher educational skill development during the transition from collegiate classroom to their own K-12 classrooms. This resulted in faculty implementation of experiential learning activities within the standard teacher education curriculum. At this university, experiential learning activities have fallen into three primary focus areas: service learning, post-graduation continuing education, and opportunities for faculty research mentoring.Item New teacher academies: Building digital teacher induction through blogs and social media(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2018) Hurlbut, Amanda; McMahan, Sarah; Dunlap, Karen; Fredrickson, RebeccaThe research on new teacher induction encourages educational preparation programs and school districts to create innovative, sustainable initiatives that support new teachers and increase teacher retention in the field. While mentoring programs and ongoing professional development have always been provided for new teachers, programs are beginning to experiment with digital induction tools including asynchronous (webinars) and synchronous (blogs, websites, social media, podcasts) as a means support new teachers. This work-in-progress paper details the initial steps, current findings, and future goals to establish a sustainable digital induction program that expands upon an existing one-day professional development session offered by the university. The New Teacher Academy digital induction site hosts a platform for educational leaders to share tips and research-based strategies geared towards new teachers in the form of a written blog and future online webinars. Content on the site is archived and shared via social media for easy access. Future research goals include studying how teachers use the blog to impact their teaching and how the content on the site affects teacher confidence in their classroom practice.Item Women supporting women: Using the 5 Anchors of Impact as a tool for uplifting women leaders(Texas Council of Women School Executives (TCWSE), 2023) Trujillo-Jenks, Laura; Fredrickson, RebeccaIt is somewhat saddening to visit a restaurant that serves lobster and see the uncovered tank of lobsters. The idea is to promote that the lobster is fresh, but the uncovered tank also demonstrates another, more fearsome concept. The tank is open but the lobsters do not escape. The reason being is that if one lobster starts to make an escape from the tank, the other lobsters will pull them back into the tank (Botteril, 2017). Applying this metaphor to women, sadly, the same can often be seen. As women work to succeed or rise within leadership positions, they are pulled back down by other women. This is referred to as the Lobster Syndrome.