Learning From Others: Developing Preservice Teachers’ Workplace Skills

Abstract

Being a teacher requires the ability to work with difficult behaviors—not just of students and parents but also of colleagues. Preservice teachers need the opportunity to develop and practice collaboration and communication skills in school settings. This essay draws on research from organizational psychology to offer a framework for understanding challenges to workplace collaboration in school settings and strategies for developing these skills in preservice teachers.

Key words:

• Collaboration
• preservice teachers
• teacher education
• workplace skills