You may have heard recently that there is a teacher shortage. You may also have heard that this shortage is leading some states and their districts to take drastic measures to fill classrooms. This in turn is prompting many district and state agencies to reconsider their qualifications for teacher credentialing. For example, some districts are […]
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The Moment It Clicked: A Teacher Candidate’s Breakthrough with Microteaching
It was a Tuesday afternoon in my Early Literacy Methods course. My students—preservice teachers in their final year before student teaching—were running through a microteaching exercise. The task was simple: model how to help a second grader tackle an unfamiliar word in a decodable text. One candidate, Emily, froze mid-lesson. She looked at her “student” […]