School adoption is an ambitious and innovative partnership model in teacher education which
offers unique opportunities for in-service and pre-service teachers. At its core teachers
leave their school to be adopted by teacher students for one week. While the teachers engage in
a professional development course outside the school they are fully substituted by teacher
students. In this volume we present different international concepts of school adoption
lessons learned and first theoretical considerations. With it we invite teacher educators in
schools universities and other institutions to engage into a dialogue about the perspectives
school adoption offers for teacher education and teacher education research.
