Approximating Literacy Practices in Tutorials: What is Learned and What Matters for Teacher Preparation
Abstract
In this study, we examined the learning of preservice teachers associated with the features of a literacy tutorial experience. Our qualitative study focused on the close inspection of the experiences of 7 focus cases out of the 19 preservice teachers enrolled in our program across a one-semester tutorial experience. Through our research we identified three preservice teacher learning themes and seven features of the tutorial experience that afforded opportunities for preservice teachers to build these understandings. Overall, our findings support the importance of this tutorial experience to the development of teachers who can adapt their practices to students and contexts. Our findings also resonate with what others have suggested as the importance of authentic contexts to try out practices of literacy teaching within preservice teacher preparation programs.
Reference
Hoffman, J. V., Wetzel, M. M., & Peterson, K. (2016). Approximating literacy practices in tutorials: What is learned and what matters for teacher preparation. Literacy Research and Instruction, 55(3), 183-208.
Journal
Literacy Research and Instruction
Analysis
Is this article part of a larger project or series of studies?
no
Does this study draw on a large, preexisting data set?
Research Approach
- Action Research
- Descriptive study
- design study
- Qualitiative
Geographic Setting
Institutional Context
Certification Level
Programatic Focus
- Elementary
- Literacy Education
Research Location Context
- Elementary school
- field-based methods course
- University
Preservice Participants
- undergraduate preservice teachers
Preservice Sample Size
19
Other Participant Data
- Students in tutorial setting
- University Professor
Duration of Data Collection
Data Sources
- anecdotal notes
- artifacts
- case study report
- exam notes
- Exams
- Interviews
- lesson plans
- Reading Responses
- reflections
- Transcriptions
- Written reflections
Data Analysis Tools
- Case study analysis
- coding (open to axial to selective
- cross-case analysis
- grounded theory
- Open coding
- Thematic analysis
Researcher Positionality