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=**Fall 2012 Conference Wiki**=

=Welcome to the Fall 2012 Conference Wiki=

The conference committee wants to invite the CCTE membership to participate in the Wiki during and after the conference. Members of the California Learning to Teach Continuum are invited to contribute to the Wiki also, even if you were unable to attend the conference. On the following pages you will have the opportunity to comment on keynote speakers, table top discussions, a dean's round table, and research sessions.

===The CCTE Fall Conference 2012 was developed around these questions. We would like to invite you to return to these questions often through the conference reacting to and reflecting on research, comments, and ideas shared at the conference:===

1. In what ways does clinically rich teacher preparation mirror “clinically rich” professional development in other fields (medical, pastoral, business – See Shulman’s work)?

How does Zeichner's work fit in?

2. What about the TRIAD? The student teacher, university supervisor, cooperating teacher?
 * How are cooperating teachers recruited and selected to work with student teachers?
 * How do universities support, and reward clinical faculty and cooperating teachers?
 * How might we, as professional teacher educators, define the most effective approaches to supervising student teachers?

3. What are the viable threats to teacher preparation programs with respect to clinical practice? We might think of these threats as indicating the enduring problems of clinical practice.

4. In what ways might we envision working WITH local school district and community partners to co-create clinically rich teacher preparation programs? (This goes to Zeichner’s position on the democratization of teacher education.)