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Teaching as a Clinical Practice Profession is a collection of research-based works that represent current clinical-based teacher preparation. Excellent teaching is a clinical skill and exemplary teacher education provides for clinical education in a clinical setting. Strong clinical preparation of teachers is a key factor in students' success.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Teaching as a Clinical Practice Profession
Patrick M. Jenlink
Chapter 2. Preservice English Teachers' Perceptions about Early Field Experiences: Value, Benefits, and Challenges
Leilya Pitre
Chapter 3. Differing Approaches to Teacher Preparation: Perceptions of Collaboration in the Field
Natalie B. Tye and Sandy Hutchinson
Chapter 4. The Perfection Trap: The Influence of 'Perfectionism' Upon Pre-Service and Early Career Teachers
Ai Kamei and Eden Haywood-Bird
Chapter 5. Exploring the Democratic Development of Teacher Candidates: Mentor Teacher Perceptions of Facilitating Spaces in the Clinical Model
Michael Hess, Charles Lowery, Sara L. Hartman, Christopher Kennedy, Marcy Keifer-Kennedy, Ann Kaufman, and Madison Paige McClain
Chapter 6. The Wicked Problem of Clinical Placement Selection and Preparing Teacher Candidates for Diverse Classrooms
Kendra Hearn and Kevin HankinsonChapter 7. Measuring the Effects of a Merged, Dual-Certification Program in Elementary and Special Education on Preservice Teachers' Sentiments, Attitudes, and Concerns about Inclusive Education and Efficacy to Implement Inclusive Practices: A Comparative Study
Miriam G. Lipsky and Andrea Adelman
Chapter 8.Community-based Fieldwork as Clinical Practice: Re-Envisioning the Relationship between Curriculum, Teachers, and Learners
Heidi L. Hallman and Melanie N. Burdick
Chapter 9. Statewide Perspectives on Developing and Sustaining Partnerships for Clinical Experiences in Teaching
Vincent Connelly, Laura Wasielewski, Megan L. Birch, and Stephen J. Bigaj
Chapter 10. "What Else Can We Do?": Teacher Preparation Programs as Fields of Epistemological Community Transformations
Carmen Ocón
Chapter 11. Epilogue: Considerations for the Future of Clinical Practice in Teacher Preparation
Patrick M. Jenlink
About the Editor and Authors
About the author
Patrick M. Jenlink is Regents Professor in the Department of Secondary Education and Educational Leadership, James I. Perkins College of Education, Stephen F. Austin State University.
