Strategies for Effective Cooperating Teacher Observations

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This article articulates how cooperating teachers can diversify and scaffold their observations in a way that progressively becomes more hands off and can be adjusted to the specific needs of the preservice teacher. It identifies four types of observations that are predominantly, but not exclusively informed by the first authors experiences when training and observing teachers in schools, that can be placed in a sequenced progression of learning activities: (a) flip-flop, (b) whole-part-whole, (c) parrot on the shoulder, and (d) traditional.

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Strategies

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