Changing Positions/Changing Perspectives

Good teaching and learning are built upon trust and strong relationships between universities and schools. In the 1997-98 school year, we undertook a role reversal that taught us more than this. Although our goals were to experience “the other perspective” in order to better understand the needs, lives, and experiences of St. Cloud State University’s (SCSU) preservice teachers, we ultimately learned as much about our own teaching—and ourselves as teachers—as we did about students.