Research on Teacher Education Practices

Teacher Educators are charged with preparing our state's teachers for any type of classroom that they may encounter. Please explore some of CTERIN's research in this area below.
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Shared resources from this talk are available here.
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This study by Rebecca Ambrose & Sombo Koo at UC Davis explores social networks of pre-service teachers. Explore their work in the first ever issue of the CTERIN Focus Research Brief series.
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This work by Jimenez-Silva, Ruiz & Smith at UC Davis explores how California's Mini-Corps Program, which recruits bilingual college students to work in educational settings, may be useful in helping California recruit bilingual teachers to serve the state's diverse learners.
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This work by Duckor, Holmberg, Patthoff & Tellez at UC Santa Cruz, with partners at San Jose State University and UC Berkeley, explores how pre-service teachers implement formative assessment practices in their placements, and how teacher educators can promote these practices.
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Dr. Lisa Sullivan & Dr. Kayce Mastrup, UC Davis
Guided by a network improvement community consisting of directors and supervisors from eight Universities across California, this work examines current supervision practices and identifies common challenges as a means to understand what effective supervision and feedback to student teachers looks like and entails.
- In April 2020, CTERIN ETE Fellow Carlos Sandoval presented at the Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education. Click here to watch a narration and view his poster.