Document Type
Section VII Article
Abstract
Staff development is generally viewed as a moderately structured "event" which occurs in an actual contracted teaching situation. Staff development can also be seen as a pre-service "event." The focus of this paper is on the staff development which occurred during a student teaching experience at Green Mountain School.
The setting in which student teachers are placed generally determines the kinds of settings for which they will best be prepared. Following that logic, any setting can be somewhat limiting. A primary consideration is whether the limitations imposed by student teaching in only one setting become a liability to student teachers. Secondly, do those limitations become a liability to student teachers placed in a rural setting any more than to those placed in an urban setting? These considerations need to be thoroughly explored before we can understand the whole picture. The case study presented here is one small part of that picture and supports the desirability of placing student teachers at Green Mountain School. There is no attempt to generalize this support to all rural settings, but to describe a student teaching experience in a particular setting under particular circumstances. The case study does present some direction for further study.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
1
Issue
1
First Page
116
Last Page
118
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1990 North Central Regional Educational Laboratory and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Bowman, Andrea
(1990)
"Section VII: Staff Development and Rural Schools: Ways and Means [Bowman],"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 43.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol1/iss1/43
