Share Paper: Facilitating Preservice Teacher Supervision Through Telepresence: Implications for Clinically-Rich Practice

  1. Sarah Capello, Judson University, United States
  2. Rachel Lance, Judson University, United States
Thursday, April 1 12:45 PM-1:00 PM Room 8

Abstract: This brief paper discusses the possibilities for using telepresence technology to supervise preservice teachers (PSTs). Recent calls for teacher preparation in clinically-rich practice have shifted notions of who supervises PSTs and what PST supervision is. Rather than outsourcing supervision to low-ranking, contingent university faculty, teacher education reforms are attempting to integrate this work among multiple teacher educators at both the university and the school site. Telepresence has the potential for supporting this vision of shared supervision by creating a third space where multiple teacher educators can plan, observe, debrief, reflect on, and evaluate PST growth and development. By reducing the ...