Getting Inside Rehearsals: Insights From Teacher Educators to Support Work on Complex Practice

Source: Journal of Teacher Education, Volume 67, Issue 1, January/February 2016

Building on prior analyses, this article elaborates a particular pedagogy of enactment, rehearsal, developed through a collaboration of elementary mathematics teacher educators (TEs) across three institutions.

Rehearsals are embedded within learning cycles that provide repeated opportunities for novice teachers (NTs) to investigate, reflect on, and enact teaching through coached feedback. This article shares a set of insights gained from 5 years of developing, studying, and learning how to support NTs’ enactment in rehearsal.