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A Program-Level Framework for Practice-Based, Equity-Centered Science Teacher Education
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This paper presents a program-level framework for practice-based, equity-centered science teacher education that responds to persistent challenges of coherence by organizing opportunities for novice learning across multiple grain sizes of practice. The framework, informed by research on practice-based teacher education, ambitious science teaching, and justice-centered pedagogy, and refined through five years of iterative program development in a graduate-level secondary science teacher education program, organizes novice learning across nested levels of instructional work that range from moment-to-moment discourse moves, to instructional activities, to unit-level design: vision-level elements of ambitious science teaching, rehearsable instructional activities, high-leverage practices, supporting strategies, instructional design strategies, and unit-level instructional sequences. Rather than serving as an intervention or evaluation, the framework specifies how programs can structure repeated opportunities for rehearsal, coached enactment, and analysis of practice in ways that support novices' engagement with ambitious and equitable instruction. Equity commitments are embedded across all design elements, with attention to leveraging students' cultural and community knowledge, positioning all students as sensemakers, and structuring participation for inclusive discourse. The framework complements justice-centered elaborations of ambitious science teaching by offering a coherent program structure within which novice teachers can learn, rehearse, and reflect on increasingly justice-oriented instructional practices over time. Implications for program design, mentor teacher development, and future research are discussed.
Keywords:
Ambitious science teaching
equity
high-leverage practices
practice-based teacher education
program coherence
science teacher preparation
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