In
teacher preparation programs, if preservice
teachers receive any kind of training, it's generally short discussions or readings in their
existing education courses (Chamberlin and Chamberlin, 2010).
As part of the project goal, a team of collaborators consisting of VS
teachers and consultants,
teacher educators, a field experience director, and a field experience supervisor from partner
teacher education programs actively participated in discussions to conceptualize new curricula that would help to improve the state of preparedness of preservice
teachers for VS. As a result, two new innovations were implemented: (a) virtual seminars on VS incorporated into an
existing course in prestudent - teaching experience, and (b) virtual early field experience.