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Evidence from Washington State indicates substantial room for improvement: many more highly effective teachers live within fifty miles of teacher education programs than the number available to host student teachers annually. Improvement efforts also face coordination challenges among TEPs, K–12 systems, and states. The authors argue policy should fund mentor recruitment more than current average compensation when valuing candidate development equivalently.","Policy Brief  \n\n|  | MAKING THE MOST OF STUDENT TEACHING: THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTORS AND SCOPE FOR CHANGE |\n| --- | --- |\n\nDan Goldhaber CALDER  \nAmerican Institutes for Research and Center for  \nEducation Data and Research University of Washington Seattle, WA 98103 [dgoldhaber@air.org](dgoldhaber@air.org)  \nJohn Krieg  \nOffice of Institutional Effectiveness  \nWestern Washington University Bellingham, WA 98225 [kriegj@wwu.edu](kriegj@wwu.edu)  \nNatsumi Naito  \nCenter for Education Data and Research  \nUniversity of Washington Seattle, WA 98103 [naiton@uw.edu](naiton@uw.edu)  \nRoddy Theobald (corresponding author) CALDER  \nAmerican Institutes for Research  \nSeattle, WA 98103 [rtheobald@air.org](rtheobald@air.org)  \nAbstract  \nA growing literature documents the importance of student teaching placements for teacher development. Emerging evidence from this literature highlights the importance of the mentor teacher who supervises this placement, as teachers tend to be more effective when they student teach with a mentor who is amore effective teacher. But the efficacy of policies that aim to have effective teachers serve as mentors depends a great deal on the availability of effective teachers to serve in this role. We therefore use data from Washington State to illustrate that there is ample scope for change in student teacher placements; in other words, there are far more effective teachers within fifty miles ofa teacher education program (TEP) who could host a student teacher in each year than the number of teachers who serve in this role. We also discuss the considerable challenges to improvement efforts related to the need for better coordination between TEPs, K–12 school systems, and states. Finally, we argue that, if policy makers value teacher candidate development equivalently to teacher in-service development, they should be willing to pay substantially more than the current average compensation for mentor teachers to recruit effective teachers to serve in this role.  \n[https://doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00305](https://doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00305)  \n© 2019 Association for Education Finance and Policy  \nINTRODUCTION  \nA significant share of the overall investment in the development of public school teachers, almost $7 billion per year, is in their preparation before they become teachers. This represents about a third of the total financial investment in professional development over the course of an average teacher’s career (Goldhaber, Krieg, and Theobald 2017) . Until recently, most research on teacher development has focused on interventions targeting in-service teachers. This trend is beginning to change, but much of the early research on the importance of teacher preparation is discouraging; for instance, von Hippel and Bellows (2018) reanalyzed six studies that compared teacher effectiveness across teacher education programs (TEPs) and found these differences to be “negligible.” But an implication of this research is that the vast majority of the variation in teacher effectiveness is within TEPs rather than across TEPs, which suggests a research and policy focus on aspects of teacher preparation that vary for candidates within the same TEP.  \nNew data systems that connect the preservice experiences of teacher candidates with their in-service outcomes has facilitated a rapid expansion of empirical evidence about these aspects of teacher preparation, and this evidence suggests that some experiences have real value in promoting the development of teacher candidates. Whom teacher candidates work with as their mentor or “cooperating” teachers (the teachers tasked with overseeing a teacher candidate’s internship/student teaching experiences on the district side) appears to be particularly important (Goldhaber, Krieg, and Theobald 2020a; Ronfeldt, Brockman, and Campbell 2018; Ronfeldt et al. 2018a,b). 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