Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2020

Keywords

community-university-school partnerships, literacy development, service-learning, teacher preparation

Abstract

Educator preparation programs seek to provide teacher candidates with authentic learning experiences that support the learning process, and one means is to engage teacher candidates in service-learning. Elementary schools are tasked with improving the literacy outcomes of struggling readers, and community-based programs focused on literacy, seek to improve the literacy achievement of its’ citizens. This work explores how an educator preparation program collaborated with a community-based organization to provide elementary, struggling readers with 1:1 literacy instruction via teacher candidates from the local university. The aim is to showcase the process, procedures, and benefits of universities partnering with local PK-12 schools and community-based organizations.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

http://doi.org/10.33596/coll.66

Comments

Originally published as:

Pittman, R. T., Garfield, T., & Piper, R. E. (2020). Increasing the Literacy Knowledge of Teacher Candidates: Why Service-Learning Matters. Collaborations: A Journal of Community-based Research and Practice, 3(1), 7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.33596/coll.66

Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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