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Over the past several years, I have read hundreds of “observation reports” authored by university supervisors in a secondary social studies teacher education program at my University. As a faculty member heavily involved in an initial certification teacher education program, I typically play no official role in the field instruction arrangement that brings together university supervisors, student teachers, and cooperating teacher.
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Dinkelman, T. (2012). Observation Reports and the Mystery of Supervising Student Teachers. In: Supervising Student Teachers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-095-8_4
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