ABSTRACT

In the United States, educator preparation is regulated at the state level. Accordingly, each state education system, and even individual districts, responded uniquely to the COVID-19 pandemic. Western Governors University (WGU) compiled a list of each state regulators’ response to COVID, many of which included relaxation of student teaching requirements. While most of WGU’s teacher preparation programme is delivered online, students complete observations and student teaching (teaching practice) in traditional classrooms. WGU had 1,875 student teacher candidates in the field on 1 March 2020. Through diligent effort all the candidates were able to complete their student teaching. WGU responded by allowing parallelism between the student teachers and their mentor teacher so that the student teacher could engage in teaching in the same manner as their mentor teacher, which varied on a district-by-district and state-by-state basis. WGU was also careful to evaluate whether the host school’s virtualisation was still meeting the needs of the student teacher and if not, then to shift the student teacher to a different placement that was more virtual-friendly. Additionally, WGU plans to pilot intentionally virtual student teaching opportunities with online charter schools in autumn 2020.

摘要

在美国，教育工作者的准备工作在州一级受到监管。因此，每个州的教育系统，甚至各个地区，都对COVID-19大流行做出了独特的反应。西部州长大学（WGU）编制了一份清单，列出了各州监管机构对COVID的回应，其中包括放宽学生的教学要求。虽然WGU的大多数教师培训计划都是在线提供的，但学生可以在传统教室中完成观察和学生教学（教学实践）。到2020年3月1日，WGU在该领域共有1875名学生教师候选人。通过努力，所有候选人都能够完成他们的学生教学。WGU的回应是让学生教师与其导师教师之间保持平行，从而使学生教师能够以与他们的导师教师相同的方式从事教学，这在地区和州之间有所不同。WGU还仔细评估了寄宿学校的虚拟化是否仍满足学生老师的需求，如果不能满足，则将学生老师转移到更虚拟友好的位置。此外，WGU计划在2020年秋季在在线特许学校试点有意虚拟学生的教学机会。然后将学生老师转移到对虚拟环境更友好的其他位置。此外，WGU计划在2020年秋季在在线特许学校试点有意虚拟学生的教学机会。然后将学生老师转移到对虚拟环境更友好的其他位置。此外，WGU计划在2020年秋季在在线特许学校试点有意虚拟学生的教学机会。