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Teacher Education Mentors

Students learn to teach in many different ways: in their University courses, students learn from their faculty to adopt an inquiry stance to teaching and learning. Graduate courses support the development of critical thinking about theoretical underpinnings, current research on teaching and learning, and contemporary issues in urban education. Coursework and student teach mutually inform one another, and course assignments are integrated with fieldwork experiences so that students learn to think deeply and reflectively about their practice in the classroom.

In their field placement, student teacher learning is supported by the Penn Mentors, who provide weekly in-depth feedback on student teaching and learning, read and respond to online journal postings, and facilitate on-site meetings with all PennGSE student teachers in a school coming together at the end of a school day to extend and share their school-based learning about teaching.

Classroom Mentors (often called cooperating teachers) are partners in preparing students to learn to teach. They offer to mentor student teachers and provide a rich environment in which to introduce student teachers to the profession. They provide day-to-day feedback and guidance to our student teachers and share, with the faculty and Penn Mentors, responsibility for supporting our student teachers as they enter the classroom.