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A Framework for Practice-Based Teacher Education
This resource introduces a research-based framework for understanding practice-based teacher education (PBTE). It represents a synthesis of the recent literature on PBTE and builds a case for why student learning, professional teaching, and teacher preparation benefit from practice-based pedagogies in teacher education.

Resource Type: Tools, rubrics, etc. for programmatic improvements
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation
Resource Origin: Generated by NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Prep project

OpenSciEd
"The goal of OpenSciEd is to ensure any science teacher, anywhere, can access and download freely available, high quality, locally adaptable full-course materials that support equitable science learning."

Resource Type: Curricula
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources, Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Building a Common Core for Learning to Teach And Connecting Professional Learning to Practice
This essay advocates for a common core of professional skills and knowledge (high-leverage practices) that focuses preservice teachers on developing their instructional practice. They propose that taking a strategic approach to improving teaching skills will result in better learning outcomes for youth, and identifies some of the potential challenges to achieving this goal.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Core Practices of Teaching: A Primer
This document describes several core practices of teaching, classroom evidence of that practice, and potential challenges to enacting the practice. The resource is suggested as an accompaniment "for teachers using video to improve their practice as facilitators of classroom talk."

Teacher Prep Topic: Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation, Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation

Redefining Teaching, Re-Imagining Teacher Education
The authors advocate for a conceptualization of teaching as a complex endeavor where teachers are decision-makers and reflective practitioners, with an accompanying shift of teacher education to emphasize clinical practice and pedagogies of enactment.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Preparing University Faculty for Clinically-Oriented, Practice-Based Teacher Education
A presentation from the 73rd annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). We describe our synthesis of the clinical practice literature that led us to focus on core practices and practice-based teacher education pedagogies, and we discuss how we operationalized those ideas into professional development and related tools for university-based teams of education faculty.

Resource Type: Conference presentations/products
Teacher Prep Topic: Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation, Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation
Resource Origin: Generated by NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Prep project

Rethinking High-Leverage Practices in Justice-Oriented Ways
This article applies a critical lens to understanding STEM teachers' practices that disrupt common power structures in the classroom, demonstrating justice-oriented teaching. The authors' goal is to inform discussions around "high-leverage practices" to include equity-promoting practices.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Equity, inclusion and diversity, Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships

A conceptual framework for integrated STEM education
This article outlines a STEM education conceptual framework, with the goal of helping educators conceptualize how STEM cuts across disciplines. The authors claim that in order to prepare students for a complex global society, we must understand the complexity of our own disciplines.

Resource Type: Position papers or recommendations
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Understanding "Core Practices" and "Practice-Based" Teacher Education: Learning From the Past
Journal article that describes how current trends in practice-based teacher education vary from historical approaches, including competency-based teacher education.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Rubrics for Clinically-Oriented, Practice-Based Teacher Education
Teacher educators can use this rubric to analyze the extent to which their teacher education programs currently reflect research-based components of effective clinically-oriented, practice-based teacher preparation, as well as identify aspects of clinical practice where their program would like to improve.

Resource Type: Tools, rubrics, etc. for programmatic improvements
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation
Resource Origin: Generated by NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Prep project