**Cooperating Teacher session only**
Have you ever considered studying and refining your practice as a Cooperating Teacher? We are excited to bring people together in this session to talk about our mutual yet too often isolated work as CTs, and share our plans for a 2025-26 Cooperating Teacher Classroom Action Research group that will provide the opportunity to explore and investigate what CTs know and do, build a cross-program CT network, and collectively identify future goals/practices for mentoring pre-service teachers. We invite you to join our introductory workshop to learn more about this unique opportunity to study and refine your CT practice across the year in a supportive professional learning community facilitated by experienced CTs and teacher researchers.
In this session, you will:
- Talk with other CTs about the puzzles, challenges, and rewards of mentoring preservice teachers
- Begin thinking about possible research questions related to your role as a cooperating teacher and learn how the action research process and timeline works so that you can decide if you'd like to give it a whirl.
- Build connections with other CTs who wish to delve further into their role through the teacher inquiry process and hear what past CTs have studied and learned in similar groups.
