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What We Know About Relationships That Develop Between Cooperating And Student Teachers
Author(s) -
Hall Joan Kelly,
Davis Jackie
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1995.tb00768.x
Subject(s) - practicum , psychology , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , reciprocal , foreign language , mathematics education , complementarity (molecular biology) , pedagogy , student teacher , teacher education , english as a foreign language , student teaching , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , biology , genetics
The student teaching practicum is a significant part of the foreign language teacher education program and as such deserves focused attention. In this article we examine six different role relationships that developed between a cohort of cooperating and student teachers of high school Spanish during a ten‐week student teaching practicum. We discuss two dimensions of these relationships that were significant to their development, complementarity and reciprocity, and conclude that student teachers who formed reciprocal relationships perceived their cooperating teachers and practicum experiences more positively than those who formed only complementary relationships. We discuss the role that the university supervisors might have played in the development of these relationships and conclude by suggesting how this study might help other foreign language teacher education programs.