This timely and practical guide supports and challenges cooperating teachers to grow in their mentoring and coaching practices with preservice teachers and also in their own work as classroom teachers. Taking a reflective stance that puts students at the center of teacher preparation and places value on apprenticeship and participation in learning, the CARE model is a framework for action that helps cultivate a perspective on teaching that is driven by students needs. Building on the authors own work with cooperating teachers, it is based on the most recent research on learning to teach...

This timely and practical guide supports and challenges cooperating teachers to grow in their mentoring and coaching practices with preservice teachers and also in their own work as classroom teachers. Taking a reflective stance that puts students at the center of teacher preparation and places value on apprenticeship and participation in learning, the CARE model is a framework for action that helps cultivate a perspective on teaching that is driven by students needs. Building on the authors own work with cooperating teachers, it is based on the most recent research on learning to teach...