Study of Teaching I is the first of two courses designed to support preservice teachers' efforts to integrate learning from courses with practice in the field and to explore the role of teacher-as-researcher as a vehicle for continual professional growth. The course is concurrent with methods of courses in literacy, mathematics, and science and is intended to help beginning teachers analyze the various teacher roles, actions, teaching models, and decisions they make as they interact with learners around the implementation of their methods course assignments in the process of student teaching. Students will begin their professional portfolios and complete a small-scale action research study focused on some aspect of learning.