Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
This article explores the benefits of one-to-one, undergraduate partnerships with public school students in teacher education courses. These partnerships, enacted through letter writing in paper notebooks and through a digital internship, involved teacher candidates communicating individually through writing and in product creations with public school students. The teacher educators unpack the discoveries they think enhanced the learning for teacher candidates including one-to-one teaching, asynchronous timing, authentic purpose, and co-construction of knowledge. A goal of the partnerships was to make purposeful experiences for teacher candidates in the spaces between their own school experience and their future teacher selves; which is, in large part, the work of teacher education.
Recommended Citation
Lehman, B.L. & Martin, J.M. (2018). Learning In Between: Partnerships as Sites of Discovery. Virginia English Journal, 68(1), 4-15.