THE EFFECTS of COVID-19 on teacher preparation

COVID-19 profoundly affected teacher preparation during the 2019-20 school year. Based on survey responses from nearly all Washington state teacher education programs (TEPs), Kathryn Choate, Dan Goldhaber, and Roddy Theobald find that the pandemic had predictable but concerning effects on teacher pr...

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Published inPhi Delta Kappan Vol. 102; no. 7; pp. 52 - 57
Main Authors Choate, Kathryn, Goldhaber, Dan, Theobald, Roddy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA Sage Publications, Inc 01.04.2021
SAGE Publications
Phi Delta Kappa
Subjects
Adjustment (to Environment)
Blended Learning
Cooperating Teachers
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Distance Education
Educational Change
Enrollment
FEATURE
Learning outcomes
Online Courses
Pandemics
Polls & surveys
Program Implementation
Student Placement
Student Teacher Supervisors
Student Teachers
Student Teaching
Teacher education
Teacher Education Programs
Washington
COVID-19
Student teaching
Teacher education
Teacher preparation
preservice teachers
pandemic
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Summary:COVID-19 profoundly affected teacher preparation during the 2019-20 school year. Based on survey responses from nearly all Washington state teacher education programs (TEPs), Kathryn Choate, Dan Goldhaber, and Roddy Theobald find that the pandemic had predictable but concerning effects on teacher preparation. Most notably, student-teaching requirements were greatly reduced or waived completely for many candidates. Survey responses do not suggest that the pandemic has had an immediate impact on TEP applications or enrollment, but there is still considerable ambiguity about how TEPs will operate going forward and what long-term effects the pandemic will have on the front end of the teacher pipeline.
ISSN:0031-7217
1940-6487
DOI:10.1177/00317217211007340