Teaching the Teacher: Co-Designing a Visual Tool to Support Teacher Educators' Mentorship of Novice Teachers
Clark, Colleen
2020
Abstract
Within the first 5 years of teaching, approximately 50% of teachers leave the profession entirely. The literature consistently identifies the experience of isolation and lack of support as primary drivers of novice teachers' decisions to leave the profession. The state of Michigan has consistently higher rates of overall teacher attrition than the national average, with some of the worst rates occurring in Detroit Public School and Community District (DPSCD) schools. To address the challenges of isolation and lack of support for novice teachers, the University of Michigan School of Education (UM SOE) and DPSCD have partnered to create a Teaching School, which includes a three-year residency program for novice teachers inspired by the medical model of physician education. This work explores how to learn from the medical training model to reduce novice teachers' experiences of isolation and lack of support. The project collaborators co-designed and developed a tool to be used in the new setting of the Teaching School to support the knowledge transfer from experienced teachers to novice teachers. Through participatory prototyping, we designed a tool that visualizes teachers' movement patterns and creates a snapshot for use as a reflection and training aid to build awareness of their practice in novice teachers. The participatory prototyping process demonstrated immediate short-term value and potential long-term value of using visualization to support the education of the novice teacher. In the short term, the prototype generated a record, facilitated conversation, and cultivated awareness. For long term value, the prototype visualizes patterns, creates comparisons, and builds a shared vocabulary. The potential future applications of this tool include additional iterations to test the tool's ability to surface teacher bias in the classroom.Deep Blue DOI
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public education elementary education secondary education teachers teacher attrition Teaching School residential program medical training model mentorship participatory prototyping collaboration participatory prototyping novice teachers
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