Cooperating teacher roles during student teacher teaching practices
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The cooperating teacher has a significant impact on the student teacher's attitudes and teaching behavior. This research, which is a part of a larger research project entitled 'A Student Teacher Supervision Model: Enhancing Professional Development and Mentoring', aims to study the role of cooperating teachers and their satisfaction with this role. The subjects included 27 cooperating teachers, 7 university supervisors, and 33 student teachers. The data were obtained through a combination of questionnaires and interviews. Analytic induction was used to analyze qualitative data. The results from the study showed that the cooperating teachers express the roles of coordinator, supporter, adviser, observer and feedback provider by giving student teachers orientation, support, guiding instruction, observations, and feedback, and found their roles to be satisfying. This study recommends that the enhancement of a cooperating teacher's professional development requires collaboration between the teacher education institute and the associate school.
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