“Walking the Walk” With Teacher Education Candidates: Strategies for Promoting Active Engagement With Assigned Readings
Abstract
Teacher educators can use active engagement strategies to help teacher candidates interact meaningfully with assigned readings for literacy methods courses. This approach to active engagement with required readings helps teacher candidates learn the content, concepts, and processes from text, and enables them to experience as learners the techniques, strategies, and processes advocated for use in K-12 classrooms. The authors believe that helping teacher candidates understand, value, and apply research-based practices in their own teaching is facilitated by modeling, application, and reflection on using such practices with their own reading and learning.
The strategies described are
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Alpha boxes
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Making connections
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Double-entry journals
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Text coding
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Teachers as readers
Also provided are a rationale for each strategy, a description of how to implement the strategy with teacher candidates, an example, and application ideas for the strategy in K-12 classrooms.
Reference
L'Allier, S. K., & Elish-Piper, L. (2007). “Walking the walk” with teacher education candidates: Strategies for promoting active engagement with assigned readings. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 50(5), 338-353.
Journal
Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Analysis
Is this article part of a larger project or series of studies?
no
Does this study draw on a large, preexisting data set?
no
Research Approach
Geographic Setting
Institutional Context
Certification Level
Programatic Focus
Research Location Context
Preservice Participants
Preservice Sample Size
Duration of Data Collection
Data Sources
- Classroom Discussion
- Course evaluations
- no sources stated
- student work
Data Analysis Tools
Researcher Positionality
- inside (staying their own students)
- Inside (studying their own practices)
Research Questions
What strategies and classroom practices assist teacher candidates in learning content, concepts, and processes from the text?
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? Combination
How are teacher candidates able to experience, as
learners, the techniques, strategies, and
processes advocated for use in K–12 classrooms?
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? Combination