Abstract
The following study details the collaboration of a university’s secondary education faculty on the United States and Mexico border. Calls for improved test scores, better preparation and retention of teachers, and improved graduation rates of teacher candidates were imminent concerns. The faculty responded to these demands by developing an integrated teacher preparation program based on shared activities, readings, technology, electronic journals, and shared epistemological values. The context for the reform efforts included a consideration for learning theory. Furthermore, secondary education faculty facilitated constructivist, collaborative pedagogies as integral to teacher preparation. A new focus was placed on learner-centered praxis rather than on teacher-centered performance. This article presents the transformative process of teacher preparation from the perspective of two participant professors.
Recommended Citation
LIcona, Miguel and Cashman, Timothy G.
(2007)
"Educational Change and Challenges: Constructivist, Collaborative Ideals in Teacher Preparation,"
Essays in Education: Vol. 19:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://openriver.winona.edu/eie/vol19/iss1/1
Unique Identifier
WSUEIE2007WIcashman
