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Article: The role of cooperating teachers' power in student teaching.
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- Education
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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For decades, all 50 states required student teaching for certification (Watts, 1987), though recently a few states have begun to allow those with alternative experiences or previous teaching experiences to forgo the student teaching practicum (Soares & Soares, 2002). Nearly all of the approximately 4.5 million K-12 teachers in the U.S. had to pass student teaching in order to receive their certification (United States Census, 2004). While failing student teaching does not signify the end of one's career, it is likely to result in a tarnished reputation in addition to costing the student time and money.
Cooperating Teachers' Power
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